musical.ly
Musical.ly
Who runs Musical.ly, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest short-form video social media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Dubsmash
Measured from Musical.ly’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Musical.ly
Musical.ly musical.ly
Wikidata: former Chinese social media service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Musical.ly tracks
We couldn’t read musical.ly’s homepage (ENOTFOUND), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
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.
- 01 Dubsmash dubsmash.com
video sharing social media service
Very close - 02
TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
Very close - 03
American video-sharing and social networking service
Very close - 04
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 05
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 - 06
Chinese social media app
Very close - 07
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 - 08
Page Not Available - Likee
Likee is a Short Video Community that allows you to explore more content of your interests and make more like-minded friends.
Very close - 09
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.
Close - 10
short-video platform
Very close - 11
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 - 12
social networking site operated by Meta Platforms
Very close - 13
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 - 14
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.
Very close - 15
Chinese microblogging website
Very close - 16 pinterest.com Top 100
American photo sharing and publishing website
Close - 17
Farcaster
A decentralized social network
Very close - 18 Gfycat gfycat.com
video hosting service
Very close - 19 x.com Top 100
American social networking service founded in 2006
Close - 20
Chinese live streaming video platform
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Musical.ly’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Musical.ly uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Musical.ly adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
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). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
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
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace · not on musical.ly 9/20
- Zendesk · not on musical.ly 7/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on musical.ly 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Apple Business · not on musical.ly 4/20
- Microsoft 365 4/20
- Atlassian · not on musical.ly 4/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on musical.ly 3/20
- HubSpot · not on musical.ly 3/20
- nginx · not on musical.ly 3/20
- Adobe · not on musical.ly 3/20
- Tengine · not on musical.ly 3/20
- Nuxt · not on musical.ly 3/20
- Vue.js · not on musical.ly 3/20