A method for migrating data and a terminal are provided. The method includes the following. An application migration instruction is received, and a target application and a target terminal corresponding to the application migration instruction are determined. A target system type of the target terminal and a local system type are acquired. User data of the target application is acquired. When the local system type is not matched with the target system type, the target terminal is instructed to download the target application from an application store. The user data is migrated to the target terminal.