Software from China: 22 vendors in 16 categories.

Chinese open-source (Apache 2.0) MQTT broker (Hangzhou) with 20M+ downloads and 1,500+ enterprise customers.

open-source

Chinese global IoT PaaS platform (Hangzhou) with 100M+ concurrent requests.

Chinese mapping platform (Beijing), majority-owned by Alibaba since 2014.

owner in China

Chinese mapping platform (Beijing), independently operated by Baidu Inc.

Chinese music-streaming platform from Tencent Music Entertainment, market leader in Southeast Asia.

Chinese independent streaming platform (Hangzhou) with 1M+ registered indie artists.

Chinese mobile/desktop video and photo editing software (ByteDance) with 300M+ monthly users.

Chinese cross-platform video editing software (Wondershare) for consumers and prosumers.

Chinese fast-growing enterprise RPA and hyperautomation suite, active across the APAC region.

Chinese/Singaporean integrated platform for RPA, chatbot conversations and intelligent document processing.

China's largest search engine and web portal (Beijing, NASDAQ-listed).

Chinese search engine (Tencent) with unique WeChat indexing, ~2-3% market share in China.

owner in China

Chinese DWG-compatible 2D/3D CAD package from ZWSOFT, significantly cheaper than AutoCAD, used in 90+ countries.

Adaptive CAPTCHA (v4) and device fingerprinting with 9 verification types and risk-based difficulty scaling.

Open-source cloud-native data lakehouse written in Rust, developed by Datafuse Labs (Beijing, China); the core engine is Apache 2.0, with some enterprise features under the source-available Elastic License 2.0.

open-source

SmartDNS is a self-hosted local DNS server that picks the fastest-responding IP among several upstream resolvers (DoT/DoH/DoQ), actively maintained with releases through 2026, originating from China.

open-source

Open-source mail server installer that sets up a full mail environment (SMTP/IMAP/POP3/webmail) within minutes on RedHat, Ubuntu or Debian. Developed by a Chinese company (iRedMail Information Technology Co., Ltd.).

open-source

Local privacy-focused note-taking app with block references and graphs

open-source

Chinese cross-platform office suite (Kingsoft, Beijing) with word processor, spreadsheet, presentations and PDF editing.

Open-source remote desktop in Rust with self-hosting; originally a Chinese developer — only sovereign when self-hosted in your own infrastructure

open-source

Chinese mega-platform (Shenzhen) combining messaging, social media, payments and commerce, from Tencent.

Chinese/Hong Kong email API platform with 200,000+ enterprise clients and 3.5B+ emails per month.