Musical.ly officially became TikTok on August 2, 2018.

Quick Scoop

Musical.ly didn’t just disappear overnight; it was merged into TikTok by its parent company ByteDance after an earlier acquisition in November 2017. On August 2, 2018, an update effectively rebranded the Musical.ly app as TikTok, moving users, their accounts, and their content into the TikTok ecosystem while keeping the TikTok name and introducing a new logo and interface.

So if you’re wondering “when did Musical.ly become TikTok?” —the key date everyone points to is August 2, 2018 , when the apps were unified and Musical.ly’s identity was folded into TikTok’s global short‑form video platform.

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