With Ripple, users can directly sing or hum a melody into the app, after which it will use machine learning to expand the melody and turn it into an instrumental song. A spokesperson for the company told TechCrunch that it’s simple to create music in Ripple and use it to soundtrack a TikTok video, noting that all a user would have to do is create a track on Ripple and then click to share it to TikTok. ByteDance confirmed that Mawf and Ripple are two separate, standalone apps