Lark Suite is an enterprise

collaboration platform Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals. One of the earliest definitions of groupware is "intentional group processes plus software to support them". As re ...

developed by

ByteDance ByteDance Ltd. () is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing social networking ...

and first released to the public in 2019. Lark and its

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

-only equivalent Feishu ("flying message") operate independently of one another and store user data separately (Lark in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

, Feishu in

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History

Lark was developed by Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of

based in Singapore, and was originally developed as an internal tool. In November 2018, Lark became ByteDance's internal communication and collaboration platform. In April 2019, Lark became available in overseas markets. In March 2020, ByteDance prepared to release a "Google-like suite of office collaboration tools" (referencing

Google Workspace Google Workspace (formerly known as Google Apps and later G Suite) is a collection of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It consists of Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, Meet ...

) focusing on cloud-based file management and document and spreadsheet editing. In April 2020, during the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...

, Lark made its service available for free across

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