Chinese tools index

Chinese apps, devices and companies this publication has covered, with the name they go by at home. Most of them have no English page anywhere, which is the reason this list exists.

• AI Xiaokang1 article

  An AI health service from JD Health that analyzes users and generates personalized diet and exercise plans for weight loss.

• Air Conductor1 article

  An AI music interaction product that lets users conduct music in the air with both hands.

• Book of Life1 article

  An AI app that helps elderly people record life stories through phone-call-like conversations and organizes their memories chronologically.

• 猫抓Cat Catch1 article

  A browser extension that downloads online videos, including most videos that can be played directly in a browser.

• Creative OS1 article

  An AI-native creation system that helps plan and manage creative workflows from notes and briefs through scripts, visual plans, feedback, versions and final video management.

• DeepSeek Harness2 articles

  An open-source agent workspace framework from DeepSeek that runs in a browser or headless mode and uses hot-swappable plugins for tools, skills, models, prompts, and sandboxed tasks.

• DeepSeek V4 Flash3 articles

  A DeepSeek large language model for agentic and general AI tasks, offered via API and runnable on high-memory local hardware.

• DeepSeek V4 Pro2 articles

  An AI model from DeepSeek available through an API, using a MoE architecture and supporting long-context coding and agent tasks.

• DJI Pocket 4P1 article

  A consumer-grade integrated gimbal camera from DJI with optical wide and medium-telephoto coverage, digital zoom, D-Log video and high-frame-rate 4K recording.

• Doubao2 articles

  A ByteDance app with permanently free basic functions and paid professional subscription tiers.

• GLM-5.31 article

  A Zhipu AI coding model for programming, agent and cybersecurity tasks, with API access, subscriptions and planned open weights.

• 华为 Pura X ViewHuawei Pura X View1 article

  A Huawei wide straight-screen flagship smartphone with a non-folding 6.39-inch OLED display, 7000mAh battery, and 200-megapixel main camera.

• 影石Insta3601 article

  A Chinese camera company that makes panoramic cameras such as the Insta360 X6.

• Insta360 X61 article

  A panoramic action camera that captures 8K 360-degree video and uses on-device AI to select, track, and edit footage.

• iQIYI1 article

  A Chinese online entertainment company and video platform with membership, advertising and content distribution businesses.

• Kimi K33 articles

  An open-weight AI model from Moonshot AI with 2.8 trillion parameters, native visual understanding, and a one-million-token context window.

• KiWear ring1 article

  A smart ring wearable that connects to multiple devices and controls phones or computers with finger gestures.

• LibTV1 article

  An AI video creation service that generates editable videos, analyzes reference videos, organizes assets, and lets creators revise clips shot by shot.

• Listary1 article

  A Windows launcher and file search app that lets users search files, open programs, jump to folders, and locate directories from Open and Save dialogs.

• Loopit1 article

  A company behind an AI interactive content platform and the Zing-0.5 interactive world model.

• 迈富时Maifushi1 article

  A Chinese company that provides AI agent applications for marketing, sales, customer service and foreign trade, along with precision marketing services.

• Meitu1 article

  A Chinese company behind image, design, and AI productivity apps including Meitu Xiuxiu, Beauty Camera, and Kaipai.

• MiniMax1 article

  A Chinese AI company that develops large models and provides an open platform and enterprise services.

• 月之暗面Moonshot AI1 article

  A Chinese AI company that develops and releases Kimi large language models, including Kimi K3.

• MuleRun1 article

  An Alibaba-incubated AI agent product for enterprise and individual users that was later merged into Qianwen Office.

• Nadou Pro1 article

  An iQIYI AIGC platform for professional film and television production with tools, IP resources, digital assets, and voice resources.

• 网易 UU 远程NetEase UU Remote1 article
• Ommo Technologies1 article

  A company developing permanent-magnet magnetic-field positioning systems and miniature sensors for 6DoF spatial tracking in robotics, wearables, and medical devices.

• PanoMind1 article

  An AI multimodal model from Insta360 that identifies highlight moments in panoramic footage and helps automatically edit video.

• 帕西尼Pasini1 article

  A Beijing-based robotics company developing tactile sensors and full-modal data collection systems for robot model training.

• Plaud One1 article

  An AI recording earbud with a mobile-networked charging case for recording calls and face-to-face conversations and uploading content to the cloud.

• 千问办公Qianwen Office2 articles

  An Alibaba office agent product that provides a unified entry point and agent foundation for computer operations, long-running tasks, scheduling, and enterprise business systems.

• 雷鸟创新RayNeo1 article

  A Chinese AR glasses company that makes smart-glasses lines including full-function, viewing, camera, and AI glasses.

• 雷鸟 iORayNeo iO1 article

  AI smart glasses that provide an unobtrusive display and all-day memory features such as recording conversations, extracting key moments, and generating daily summaries.

• Seedance 2.52 articles

  A ByteDance AI video generation model that creates up to 30-second videos with multimodal references and local editing.

• SiliconFlow1 article

  An AI infrastructure company that uses its own scheduling engine to run models on chips from multiple vendors and sell access to developers and enterprises by token volume.

• Slime1 article

  An open-source post-training framework from Zhipu that covers release-level model post-training workflows for model families including GLM, Qwen, DeepSeek, and Llama 3.

• TapNow1 article

  An AI creation service that provides video models, a 3D virtual studio, and AI sound tools for producing brand, game, and product videos.

• 腾讯Tencent1 article

  A Chinese internet company with social networking, gaming, advertising, cloud and AI products including Hunyuan and WorkBuddy.

• updream Previs Studio1 article

  A previs tool that generates 3D white-model scenes from reference images and lets users control character routes, camera moves, and multi-camera switching.

• WALL-B1 article

  A general embodied intelligence large model for robots that jointly trains vision, language, action, and physical-change prediction to guide real-world tasks.

• WALL-SS1 article

  A next-scale autoregressive world model from ZiVariable Robotics that simulates robot observation-action sequences and rolls out future states for testing robot policies.

• Wan 3.01 article

  An AI video generation model that takes text, images, audio, video, and document files as inputs to create and edit video segments up to 30 seconds long.

• 微信输入法WeChat Input1 article

  An input-method keyboard app for mobile and Mac that supports candidate-word controls and cross-device file transfer.

• WorkBuddy3 articles

  An AI office agent product from Tencent that helps users organize materials, summarize content, design report structures, create outputs, and manage knowledge-work tasks.

• Xiaomi Smart Storage1 article

  A Xiaomi network-attached home storage device for photo album backup, media management, remote access, Xiaomi phone full-device backup, and HyperOS/Mijia integration.

• XuanChuang Robot1 article

  A Chinese robotics company that develops special embodied-intelligence inspection and operation robots for hazardous oil, gas, and chemical industrial sites.

• 阅星曈Yuexingtong X31 article

  A 3.7-inch e-ink device that can attach magnetically to an iPhone and show briefings, reading functions, and widgets.

• Yunjue1 article

  A company developing AI wearable hardware and software that combines heart rate, motion, audio, vision, conversation and relationship data into a personal multimodal timeline.

• 智谱Zhipu1 article

  A Chinese AI company that develops GLM large language models and related coding and productivity tools.

• Zibianli1 article

  A robotics company developing embodied-intelligence models and robots for home-service tasks and logistics sorting.

• Zing-0.51 article

  An interactive world model by Loopit that generates controllable worlds using WASD spatial input and natural-language intent.

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