All the Apps ByteDance Operates in the US

TikTok has had a wild start to 2025.

The app was banned in the United States, went dark, then came back online.

You might be addicted to the app yourself.

The rest, of course, is history.

TikTok has become a world-wide phenomenon, capturing the attentions of one billion users.

TikTok Lite

If you have an Android equipment, you might have seenTikTok Litebefore.

This app is TikTok, only a lighter, more streamlined version.

TikTok Lite is not that popular, especially when compared to TikTok proper.

It only has 100,000 downloads compared to TikTok’s more than one billion.

It wasn’t a part of the ban discussion, but it’s currently off the Play Store nonetheless.

TikTok Studioisn’t made for consumers.

Rather, it’s an app for TikTok creators to manage posts on their accounts.

These days, anyone with a smartphone can make videos.

(It’s also available on the web.)

One of those apps wasLemon8, a “lifestyle” social media platform.

Like TikTok, Lemon8 also supports video sharing, but that’s not its only focus.

Users can also post images, including to carousels, offering an Instagram-like experience.

Plus, you might engage with multiple types of content at the same time, akin to Pinterest.

Whichever player controls at least two locations after six turns wins.

It’s the first of the ByteDance apps to return to app stores since the ban.

Land of Empiresis another game owned by Nuverse.

This title is a strategy game that pits you against an enemy army of demons.

It, however, has not returned.

Chances are, you’ve never heard of Lark.

(I certainly hadn’t.)

Lark offers a collection of business apps and services.

Lark has features like in-app messaging and video calling, as well as collaborative document sharing.

It’s likely one of the smaller groups affected by the ban.

Tokopedia, as you may have guessed, is a subsidiary of ByteDance.