Did Amino Shut Down? Yes — Here's What Happened

Short answer: yes. Long answer: here is the timeline, the reason, and what to use instead.

Yes — Amino has been shut down

Amino was removed from the iOS App Store and Google Play during 2024, and the web client at aminoapps.com was switched to a permanent maintenance page in 2025. The servers behind chat, posting, login, and notifications were decommissioned. By 2026 the platform is dead.

If you can still launch an old install on your phone, most features no longer work.

Need a working alternative right now — Open Aminoka.

Who shut Amino down?

MediaLab — the company that acquired Amino in 2021 — pulled the plug themselves. The shutdown was not initiated by Apple, Google, or any government action. MediaLab decided the product was no longer profitable enough to maintain and let it decay until the apps were quietly pulled and the website was switched to a maintenance page.

Why did Amino get shut down?

Two compounding reasons. MediaLab's ownership pattern — they buy creator products, cut engineering, run them as ad inventory, and quietly retire them when revenue drops. The moderation collapse — once the engineering team was gone, auto-moderation began banning long-time leaders for routine content, killing the communities that drove engagement.

For a longer read see Why is Amino dead?.

When did Amino shut down exactly?

The mobile apps were removed from the stores during 2024. The web client went into permanent maintenance in 2025. There was no official shutdown date announcement — both events happened silently. See the exact timeline for specifics.

Will Amino come back?

No public plan to bring it back. No acquirer has been named. No community fork has reverse-engineered the backend. Treat it as permanently gone.

What to do now

Pick a replacement and move quickly. Communities that successfully migrated kept their members; the ones that waited lost them to attrition. Three steps:

Pick the destination — Aminoka for closest structural match, Discord for chat-only.
Announce on every channel you still have to your members.
Run a launch event in the first 72 hours.

Templates here: Amino community migration guide. Full alternative comparison: top 10 Amino alternatives in 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Did Amino shut down? +

Yes. Amino was removed from the iOS App Store and Google Play in 2024 and the web app (aminoapps.com) went into permanent maintenance in 2025. The platform is no longer operational.

Did Amino get shut down by Apple or Google? +

No. The shutdown was initiated by MediaLab (the company that owned Amino) — they pulled the apps from the stores themselves rather than maintain them.

Why did Amino get shut down? +

MediaLab acquired Amino in 2021, cut the engineering team, and let the product decay. By 2025 ad revenue could no longer support the infrastructure, so they decommissioned the servers.

What should I use now that Amino is shut down? +

Aminoka is the closest like-for-like replacement (free, same community + profile + leveling + leader structure). Discord for chat-only, Reddit for posts, Tumblr for roleplay.

Did Amino Shut Down? Yes — Here's What Happened (2026)