Alternatives and competitors
Sites like TikTok
The 20 closest short-form video social media alternatives to TikTok, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to TikTok? The closest matches are Musical.ly, instagram.com and YouTube. 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 TikTok
TikTok tiktok.com
TikTok - Make Your Day
Wikidata: video-focused social media platform
Summary by Claude
A social network where users create, share and watch short-form videos, accessible through a mobile app and website, with an algorithmic recommendation feed, live streaming and in-app shopping.
- Who it’s for
- General consumers, content creators and advertisers
- Business model
- Advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to TikTok’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 TikTok
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to TikTok, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read tiktok.com’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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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.
Very close cos 0.927 - 02
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 0.907 - 03
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.
Very close cos 0.906 - 04
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.
Very close cos 0.905 - 05
product discovery website
Very close cos 0.899 - 06
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.
Very close cos 0.899 - 07
Vimeo - All-in-One Video Platform
The video platform trusted by 287 million creatives, entrepreneurs, and businesses. Everything you need to create, manage, and share stunning videos.
Very close cos 0.898 - 08
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.
Close cos 0.894 - 09
ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
Very close cos 0.896 - 10
LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Close cos 0.894 - 11
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Close cos 0.891 - 12
TikTok Downloader - Download TikTok Video Without Watermark
Fastest TikTok video downloader! Save TikTok videos in HD with two taps, fast and free. With or without a watermark online – start now for high-quality downloads!
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VK.com | VK
Close cos 0.891 - 14
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Close cos 0.892 - 15
BIGO TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.
The official website for BIGO Newsroom. Explore the latest news, media coverage and creator stories from BIGO Technology.
Close cos 0.888 - 16
promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
Close cos 0.889 - 17
Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud
Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.
Close cos 0.890 - 18
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
Close cos 0.892 - 19
GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Close cos 0.888 - 20
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
Close cos 0.890
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to tiktok.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones TikTok uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What TikTok is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT hubspot-developer-verification=YzdjZDc2ZDEtMDRmNS00MWQyLWJlNzUtY2Q4Ym…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:spf.b…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:spf.b…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms80039204
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a9-66.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=hXgMRIDdysM4HJYw
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=-pibSb_VhK-cZP1CQSaH7s43WbBkpzjhUwAgyc3YDH4
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=iec6txjjw8r35xhq5swdem8tpa5mzw
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what TikTok adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- GlobalSign · not on tiktok.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on tiktok.com 8/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- Atlassian · not on tiktok.com 8/20
- Zendesk 6/20
- OpenAI · not on tiktok.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 4/20
- Adobe · not on tiktok.com 4/20
- Canva · not on tiktok.com 4/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on tiktok.com 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on tiktok.com 4/20
- Yandex Metrica · not on tiktok.com 3/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on tiktok.com 3/20