Yes — aminoapps is shut down

If you came here after typing aminoapps shut down into Google, the short answer is yes. The web app at aminoapps.com was switched to a permanent maintenance page in 2025 and the mobile apps were pulled from both the iOS App Store and Google Play. The company that owned Amino — MediaLab — never published an official farewell or sunset notice. The platform simply stopped working.

If you can still open an old install of Amino on your phone, most of the features that mattered (chat, push notifications, posting, login, search) are broken or deprecated. The backend that powered the app has been turned off.

The AminoApps timeline (2014–2026)

• 2014 — AminoApps launched as a series of single-community apps, one per fandom.
• 2017–2018 — The single-community apps merged into a single unified app. AminoApps.com became the central hub.
• 2019–2020 — Peak: 300M+ lifetime downloads, dominant in K-pop, anime, and roleplay verticals.
• 2021 — MediaLab acquired AminoApps. Engineering staff was cut within months.
• 2022–2023 — Bug reports went unanswered; moderation devolved into aggressive auto-bans; leaders began migrating.
• 2024 — Mobile apps removed from the App Store and Google Play.
• 2025 — AminoApps.com switched to a permanent maintenance page that never came back.
• 2026 — The platform is dead. Communities have spread across Discord, Reddit, Tumblr, and dedicated Amino replacements like Aminoka.

Why aminoapps was shut down

Two compounding causes. First, MediaLab's ownership pattern. MediaLab buys creator products (Whisper, Kik, Genius) and runs them as ad inventory with skeleton engineering — until the product can no longer sustain itself, at which point it is dropped. AminoApps fit this pattern exactly.

Second, the moderation collapse. When the engineering team was cut, the auto-moderation system was left running without supervision. It began banning long-time community leaders for routine content while spam and scams went untouched. Without leaders, communities went silent. Without active communities, DAU fell. Without DAU, the ad revenue couldn't pay the bills.

For a longer write-up see our Why is Amino dead? explainer.

Can you recover your old aminoapps account?

Unfortunately, no. There was no announced account-export tool, no email-based archive request, and no third party that scraped the platform before it went dark. Your old profile, your communities, your posts, your followers — all gone. The pragmatic move is to rebuild on a new platform with a fresh roster you rally manually through whatever side channel you still have (Discord, DMs, Reddit).

What to do now — the replacement options

The replacement question depends on what your community was about:

• If your community was structure-driven (profiles, walls, levels, leader hierarchy), Aminoka is the closest match. Same mental model, plus a built-in roleplay matchmaker and OC library.
• If your community was chat-driven, Discord. We have a deeper breakdown in Amino vs Discord.
• If your community was thread-driven, Reddit.
• If your community was roleplay-driven, see our best Amino replacement for roleplay guide — Aminoka is also our pick here, but Tumblr is a viable second option.

The full ranked comparison lives in top 10 Amino alternatives in 2026.

Bottom line

AminoApps.com is permanently gone. There is no official path to recover your account or your community. The communities that survived the shutdown didn't wait — they picked a new home, posted a clear migration announcement on Amino while it still worked, and rallied their members within the first 72 hours. The ones that waited lost their people to attrition.

If you want the closest replacement, try Aminoka. Sign in with Google or email and you can be in a community within 30 seconds.