Selective electrodeposition could be used to prepare functional coating on the local surface of mechanical parts and to recover the size of their local damages. This technique possessed the characteristics of high deposition current density and deposition speed, and the problems of high residual stress, easy to crack and uniform quality in the deposition coating. If ultrasound was introduced in the elective electrodeposition, the coating residual stress will be reduced, the coating hardness and corrosion resistance will be improved, so that ultrasonic assisted selective electrodeposition could be used for preparation of high-performance coatings on local areas of mechanical parts and rapid prototyping of small precision parts.The application mode of ultrasonic in selective electrodeposition technology such as immersion ultrasonic assisted selective electrodeposition, ultrasonic assisted jet electrodeposition, and jet electrodeposition with substrate ultrasonic frequency vibrated were listed herein. The effects of ultrasound on the coating surface morphology, phase structure, hardness, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, etc. were introduced.The mechanism of ultrasound affected selective electrodeposition such as ultrasonic cavitation, thermal effects and mechanical effects was discussed.And the problems and development direction of the ultrasonic assisted selective electrodeposition were pointed out.