Seedance, Dreamina, Jimeng (即梦), Doubao: One Model, Four Names | SeedanceTips

Seedance is the model; Jimeng (即梦), Dreamina and Doubao (豆包) are ByteDance apps and storefronts that run it. ByteDance’s Seed team builds the Seedance video models. Jimeng AI is the China-market creative app where Seedance 2.0 launched on 2026-02-12. Dreamina is the international creative app at dreamina.capcut.com, and it labels the same models “Dreamina Seedance”. Doubao is ByteDance’s China-market AI assistant, which also carries Seedance 2.0, and it doubles as the prefix on the China-side API catalog, where the model is listed as “Doubao-Seedance-2.0”. Every claim on this page was checked against ByteDance’s own pages on 2026-10-08 unless another date is given.
So when someone searches “seedance 2.0 即梦” or “即梦 seedance 2.0”, they are looking for the same thing an English speaker means by “Seedance 2.0 on Dreamina”: one model line, reached through a different front door. This page sorts the names out. It does not test the model; for that, see our Seedance 2.0 review.
The confusion has a simple cause. ByteDance names the model once and then lets each product that carries it add its own label. Here is what each name refers to, according to the pages we read on 2026-10-08.
Two more names sit around the edges and cause their own share of searches:
The rest of this page goes through each name in turn, with the evidence behind it.
“Seedance” names a model family, not a website or an app you download. Its home is seed.bytedance.com, the site of ByteDance’s Seed research organisation. The Seedance 2.0 page there is titled simply “Seedance 2.0” and carries the footer “Copyright© 2026 Bytedance Seed” (checked 2026-10-08). ByteDance’s English blog post “Seedance 2.0 Official Launch” is dated 2026-02-12. The next version followed with “One-take Creation, Flexible Referencing: Introducing Seedance 2.5”, dated 2026-07-31.
What the model page does not do is give you a generator. On 2026-10-08 the English Seedance 2.0 page offered two buttons: “Try Dola”, linking to www.dola.com/chat/, and “Try in Playground”, linking to BytePlus’s AI playground at ai.byteplus.com. Neither of those is Dreamina. That surprises people who expect the model page to point straight at the consumer app most English-language users end up in.
Three neighbouring names on the same site get mixed up with Seedance:
If you remember one rule, make it this: a name with “Seed” in it is a model or the team that makes models, and a name without “Seed” is a product that runs them.
Jimeng AI is ByteDance’s China-market creative app. Its site at jimeng.jianying.com loaded on 2026-10-08 under the title “即梦AI - 即刻造梦”, which translates roughly as “Jimeng AI: make your dreams instantly”. Its meta description calls it a one-stop intelligent creation platform offering AI painting and AIGC video creation. 即梦 (jímèng) is just the app’s Chinese name, and “Jimeng” is its romanisation. They are the same product.
The clearest statement of how Jimeng relates to Seedance comes from ByteDance itself. The Chinese version of the Seedance 2.0 launch post, “Seedance 2.0 正式发布”, dated 2026-02-12, says:
目前，Seedance 2.0 已上线即梦AI、豆包等平台，欢迎体验和反馈。
In English: “Seedance 2.0 is now live on Jimeng AI, Doubao and other platforms; you are welcome to try it and give feedback.” The same post then lists three ways in, numbered in the original:
We read all three lines on the live page on 2026-10-08. Note what is missing: the Chinese launch post names no international app. Dreamina came into the story through its own product pages, not through this announcement.
The pattern held for the next version. ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 post, dated 2026-07-31, says: “Today, Seedance 2.5 is rolling out on Jimeng AI, Doubao Pro, and other platforms, with API access coming soon via BytePlus ModelArk.” It gives the path “Jimeng Web -> Video Generation -> Select Seedance 2.5”. Jimeng is where ByteDance announces first.
Who runs Jimeng is printed in its footer. On 2026-10-08 the page named 深圳市脸萌科技有限公司 (Shenzhen Lianmeng Technology Co., Ltd.) with ICP filing 粤ICP备13065114号-22. The same company is listed as developer on jianying.com, the site of Jianying (剪映), ByteDance’s China-market video editor. That is why Jimeng lives on a jianying.com subdomain. Our access guide adds that Xiao Yunque at xyq.jianying.com shares the same operator and filing, which makes it a third China-domestic front end.
On 2026-10-08 Jimeng’s homepage itself did not mention Seedance anywhere in its served HTML. The model choice appears inside the video generation tool, which is how ByteDance’s post describes it.
Dreamina is the app most English-speaking Seedance users actually open. It runs at dreamina.capcut.com, under CapCut’s domain. Its homepage meta description on 2026-10-08 read: “Create AI video, image, and short drama with Dreamina for ads, social content, product visuals, and visual storytelling. Powered by leading AI models including Seedream, Seedance, GPT Image, Sora, and more.”
Two things in that sentence matter for the naming question. First, Dreamina describes itself as a platform powered by models, Seedance among them, not as the model. Second, it carries models from other companies too. Dreamina is a storefront, and Seedance is one of the products on its shelf.
Dreamina puts its own name in front of the model. On our 2026-08-01 check its picker listed “Dreamina Seedance 2.0”, “Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Fast” and “Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Mini”, as recorded in our version timeline. The dedicated tool page at dreamina.capcut.com/tools/seedance-2-0 described itself on 2026-10-08 as letting you “Create high-quality videos with official Seedance 2.0”. So “Dreamina Seedance 2.0” and “Seedance 2.0” are the same model line, and the prefix tells you whose storefront you are in.
Is Dreamina the international version of Jimeng? Functionally, yes. Both are ByteDance creative apps for images and video that carry the same Seed models, one aimed at China and one at everyone else, and the domains mirror each other: Jimeng sits