musical.ly Sign Up: The Definitive Guide
Today I will show you how to get started on musical.ly, a creative social media platform for mobile devices that allows users to make, share, and discover amazing short videos on mobile and online.
I’ve heard many people complain about how hard, confusing, and frustrating it is to sign up for a musical.ly account. What most people don’t realize is that you have to register for an account using a mobile device, right after you’ve downloaded and installed the app on your phone or tablet.
Musical.ly has the same problem the same problem that many app based services have, which is mobile only sign ups. I mean there’s no way to create an account online using a desktop or laptop PC, however, you do have the option log in on their desktop site, but I’ll explain that later.
Once you’ve gone through this entire article, you’ll know how to register an account any device, and then you will be able to start creating videos of yourself lip-syncing and dancing along to music you like.
You can also “heart” videos, which similar to liking on Facebook, you can duet with your friends right now using the new split screen mode, remuse (reuse) popular sounds, and more.
Benefits and Features of a Musical.ly Account
- Lip-syncing and dancing to the music you love
- Heart (like) videos
- Follow people and make new friends
- Ask questions
- Duet and also duel with your friends
- Use pre-set filters and special effects to edit your videos and make them stand out
- Watch other users' videos
Musical.ly Sign Up How to: Step-by-Step Guide
- On your phone or tablet’s web browser go to https://musical.ly/
- When you’re on the app’s website tap on the option that’s right for you. For example, I have an Android phone, so I tapped on the “Get it on Google Play” button. If you have an iPhone or iPad, then you’ll need to tap on the App Store icon, and so on.
- Now tap on the “Install” button.
- Tap “Open” to launch the app.
- Tap “Sign Up”.
- Select how you want to create your account by tapping on one of the options in the pop up window. I chose “email”.
- Enter your email address and tap “Continue”.
- Select your birthday and tap “OK”.
- Now create your username, set your new password, and tap on the “Create Account” button.
- Click on the check box to prove that you are a human.
- Enter your full name and tap “Continue”.
- Take a selfie and select upload image so your friends can find you with a lot more ease.
- Add contacts from your phone or from Facebook if you want. This step is optional, you can simply tap “Skip” to do this later.
- Tap “Done” on the upper right side of your screen as shown in the image below and that’s it.
After creating your account you’ll be automatically logged in. But if you accidentally get logged out or delete the app, you can easily and quickly sign in again by following these steps:
How to Login to Musically with your Username and Password
- Open the app.
- Tap “log in”.
- Enter your “musername” o email.
- Enter your password.
- Tap “log in”.
Although the company still doesn’t let people sign up through their desktop site, they do, however, allow already registered users login online. If you already registered for an account via the app, you can the service on a desktop or laptop PC running on any operating system like this:
- Go to https://www.musical.ly/login.jsp
- Enter your account credentials into the email and password fields.
- Enter the security code.
- Click “LOGIN”.
If you signed up using a social login such as Facebook or Twitter, you can access the the service like this: Launch the musically app on your mobile device, tap log in, tap the Facebook or Twitter icon, enter your account credentials, and then tap on the “Login” button if you used Facebook, or tap on “Authorize app” if you want to sign in with Twitter.
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Richard
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