What is Lark used for?

Lark is an all-in-one workplace suite from ByteDance that combines chat, documents, calendar and video meetings. It is a good fit for all-in-one collaboration for growing companies, and replacing separate chat and docs tools.

No. Lark is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Lark include Twake Legacy, Rocket.Chat and Mattermost.

What are some alternatives to Lark?

Lark competes with DingTalk, Slack and Microsoft Teams. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Lark alternatives.

Lark: features, pricing and alternatives

About Lark

Lark is a commercial workplace collaboration suite from ByteDance. It brings together team chat, documents, a calendar and video meetings in one product, aiming to replace several separate tools with a single workspace.

Lark is a hosted software-as-a-service product and is not self-hosted. It is relevant to companies comparing all-in-one collaboration suites such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack; see the vendor's site for current features, regional availability and pricing.

Key features

Team chat and messaging
Collaborative document editing
Shared team calendar
Video meetings and calls

Good fit for

→All-in-one collaboration for growing companies
→Replacing separate chat and docs tools

Tags: team-chat; collaboration-suite; documents; calendar; video-meetings; bytedance; saas

Lark: questions and answers

What is Lark used for?: Lark is an all-in-one workplace suite from ByteDance that combines chat, documents, calendar and video meetings. It is a good fit for all-in-one collaboration for growing companies, and replacing separate chat and docs tools.
Is Lark free?: Yes. Lark has a free plan.
Is Lark open source?: No. Lark is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Lark include Twake Legacy, Rocket.Chat and Mattermost.
What are some alternatives to Lark?: Lark competes with DingTalk, Slack and Microsoft Teams. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Lark alternatives.