Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Musical.ly
The 20 closest short-form video social media alternatives to Musical.ly, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Musical.ly? The closest matches are TikTok, Douyin and ByteDance. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Musical.ly
Musical.ly musical.ly
Wikidata: former Chinese social media service
Summary by Claude
Former short-form video social app where users created and shared lip-sync and music videos; it was acquired by ByteDance and merged into TikTok in 2018, so the domain now redirects there.
- Who it’s for
- Teens and young social media users
- Business model
- Advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Musical.ly’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Musical.ly
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Musical.ly, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read musical.ly’s homepage (ENOTFOUND), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
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Chinese social media app
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ByteDance - Inspire Creativity, Enrich Life
ByteDance develops products and services that empower people and organizations to create, connect, and discover.
Very close cos 0.913 - 04 Very close cos 0.907
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YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Likee is a Short Video Community that allows you to explore more content of your interests and make more like-minded friends.
Very close cos 0.898 - 07
GIPHY - Be Animated
GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
Very close cos 0.895 - 08
Chinese live streaming video platform
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ShareThis | Share Buttons | Website Tools | Behavioral Intelligence
Discover how social sharing tools can drive traffic and help you understand consumer intent for better targeting and personalization.
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Featured Content on Myspace
Featured Content on Myspace
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Make Everyone Shine
Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.
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Make Everyone Shine
Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.
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Snapchat - Say It In A Snap
Chat, send Snaps, explore Stories, and try Lenses on desktop, or download the app on mobile! See how to connect & create with friends on Snapchat, wherever you are.
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9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
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StumbleUpon
content discovery platform
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Myinstants | The largest instant sound buttons website in Germany!
Myinstants is where you discover funny instant sound buttons from Germany. HAVE FUN!
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Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу
Пикабу – это уютное информационно-развлекательное сообщество, где любой желающий может опубликовать пост. Истории из жизни, свежие шутки и мемы, познавательные статьи, забавные фото и видео, интересные комментарии. Если другим пользователям понравится ваша история, ее увидят сотни тысяч людей.
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BIGO TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.
The official website for BIGO Newsroom. Explore the latest news, media coverage and creator stories from BIGO Technology.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to musical.ly’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Musical.ly uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Musical.ly is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-935.awsdns-52.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=verU2o2THaibc_uzgfcls_OKWUe4hM4BON7E-…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=466zfaqZPfpgb4lqFLqmo2hyjaEhhSAkRxWI9UCuFVA
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Musical.ly adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace · not on musical.ly 13/20
- Apple Business · not on musical.ly 7/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on musical.ly 6/20
- Zendesk · not on musical.ly 5/20
- Atlassian · not on musical.ly 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on musical.ly 5/20
- nginx · not on musical.ly 4/20
- Adobe · not on musical.ly 4/20
- Microsoft 365 3/20
- Slack · not on musical.ly 3/20
- Next.js · not on musical.ly 3/20
- React · not on musical.ly 3/20
- SendGrid · not on musical.ly 3/20