About The App TikTok is a social media video app launched outside of China in 2017. by a Chinese developer ByteDance. TikTok's predecessor Douyin launched in 2016. and is owned by the same company. The two are virtually identical, the main difference is that they run on different servers to comply with Chinese censorship restrictions. In august of 2018. TikTok merged with a similar app named Musical.ly whose users migrated to the TikTok platform. These decisions allowed TikTo