ByteDance launches dedicated cloud documents app for Feishu as TikTok continues to face headwinds abroad
- ByteDance’s cloud office suite, known as Lark internationally, gets a dedicated Feishu Docs app as the company pushes forward with enterprise collaboration
- The company is ramping up competition at home while its hit short video app TikTok has struggled in India and the US following a backlash against Chinese apps
Feishu Docs adds to ByteDance’s existing collaboration tools that are part of its main Feishu office suite app. This includes Feishu Meetings, a video conferencing tool that was launched earlier this year at the height of the spread of Covid-19 in China.
By spinning off Feishu’s current document functionality into its own app, Feishu Docs will get three new features: a format-free notepad that easily turns outlines into mind maps, charts for visualising diverse data, and a file management function that structures files based on their relation to each other.
All the new features can also be accessed from within the main Feishu app, the company said, where other tools such as messaging and calendars remain. Spinning out Feishu Docs into its own app was done to make it “convenient for users to use it separately”, the company said without elaborating further.