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Dola

ByteDance's overseas assistant (renamed from Cici in Nov 2025) with free chat, translation, summarization and image generation

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What Dola does

  • ByteDance's overseas assistant (renamed from Cici in Nov 2025) with free chat, translation, summarization and image generation
  • Supports about 19 languages on iOS, Android, Windows, web and a browser extension
  • Reported 10M+ daily users by end of 2025, strong in Southeast Asia, Latin America and the UK

Dola — straight answers

What is Dola?

Dola is listed under General Purpose Chatbots, in the AI Chat & Assistants category on Flocci AI Tools. ByteDance's overseas assistant (renamed from Cici in Nov 2025) with free chat, translation, summarization and image generation. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at dola.com.

Is Dola free?

Dola is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 404 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can Dola do?

Dola does 3 things the catalog singles out: Bytedance's overseas assistant (renamed from cici in nov 2025) with free chat, translation, summarization and image generation; supports about 19 languages on ios, android, windows, web and a browser extension; reported 10m+ daily users by end of 2025, strong in southeast asia, latin america and the uk.

What is the best free alternative to Dola?

Alibaba Quark AI Assistant is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same General Purpose Chatbots sub-category and is free. Amazon Nova, Apertus Chat (Public AI) and Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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