Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of Internet technologies, and disclose an application control method and a terminal device. The method includes: determining whether a currently running application meets a condition for casting a skill, and if the currently running application meets the condition for casting a skill, outputting a skill name corresponding to at least one castable skill; detecting a target skill name input by a user in voice mode; recognizing the target skill name and determining whether the target skill name belongs to the output skill name corresponding to the at least one castable skill; and if the target skill name belongs to the output skill name corresponding to the at least one castable skill, casting a skill corresponding to the target skill name in the application. By implementing embodiments of the present invention, applications may be controlled easily.