ByteDance's TRAE has merged its two apps, the TraeCode coding tool and the TraeWork work assistant, into a single new TRAE. If you use TraeWork, the date that matters is October 23: TRAE says that's when the transition period ends and TraeWork stops working for anyone who hasn't upgraded.
TRAE announced the change on October 9 in its Chinese documentation and on its official community forum, describing it as one entry point, two modes and three synced platforms. Its reasoning is that real work doesn't split neatly into "office tasks" and "writing code". Building a product demo means breaking down requirements, designing pages, writing and testing code, and writing up what you delivered, so the new app tries to keep all of that in one place.
Until now the two apps split the job: TraeWork leaned toward office work, tasks and content generation, while TraeCode was built for professional developers writing code. The new TRAE splits the work by mode instead. Agent mode is meant for taking an idea all the way to a result. TRAE says you can manage several projects in one workspace, send multiple agents to work on different tasks in parallel, start local tasks across several folders, or connect to a remote environment over SSH. IDE mode keeps the full editor for deep work on a single project, such as detailed editing and debugging, and you can switch to it whenever an agent's work needs a closer look. The app runs on desktop, web and mobile, so you can start a task on your computer, check progress and add instructions from your phone, then pick it up again at your desk.
Several TraeWork features carry over. Automation for repeat jobs, the template library, the personal assistant and a shared "My artifacts" area now sit in the same workflow, and that area collects code changes, HTML, slides, Word documents, images, videos and reports in one place.
Existing TraeWork users make the move from inside the old app. Once the desktop app is updated to its latest version, it shows an upgrade prompt, and clicking "Upgrade now" downloads and installs TRAE. According to TRAE, chat history, account data, profile, credits, login state and local data come across without any manual work. The same prompt has two optional boxes, one to uninstall TraeWork when the upgrade finishes and one to delete its local data along with it, and TRAE asks people to stay online and keep the computer on until it's done. New users can just download the new app, though TRAE says the new version is reaching people gradually.
It hasn't gone smoothly for everyone. Under TRAE's forum announcement, a number of users said the upgrade failed, some after several tries, and others said their TraeWork chat history or projects didn't come across. A post on TRAE's official forum suggested skipping the in-app upgrade and downloading the latest installer from trae.cn instead, but a few users said a manual install only showed their TraeCode data. TRAE's documentation doesn't mention a workaround, and its announcement asks anyone with problems to post in the forum's help section.
All of this comes from TRAE's China site, trae.cn. An English version of the same notice, October 23 deadline included, sits on docs.trae.ai, but trae.ai itself still lists TraeCode and TraeWork as separate downloads, so it isn't clear whether users outside China are getting the merged app yet.