Amino is not down for you alone. The fan community app stopped working for everyone in December 2025 and has not come back. The check at the top of this page still asks for aminoapps.com, and today the name no longer resolves to any address, so the result shows the DNS lookup failing and the site as unreachable. That result is accurate, and it will not change if you run the check again tomorrow.
What happened to Amino
Amino began as a project by Yin Wang and Ben Anderson, who came up with the idea at an anime convention in Boston, and it launched as an app in 2012 under their company Narvii. It grew into a large network of separate communities, each with its own feed, wiki entries and chats, run by members who acted as leaders and curators. In January 2021 the app was bought by MediaLab, and the founders left.
In early December 2025 the app and the website stopped answering for users worldwide, with requests simply timing out. MediaLab did not publish a statement about the cause. Amino support later confirmed that the service had ceased operations as of December 19, 2025, and in January 2026 a support message added that personal data was no longer kept after that date. The app has since been pulled from the App Store. The Wikipedia article on Amino collects these steps with their sources.
What the check shows now
A normal outage leaves the domain in place: the name resolves, a server is found, and it answers slowly, with an error or not at all. Amino is past that stage. When a name stops resolving, the address has been switched off at the DNS level, which is about as final as a website gets short of the domain changing hands. The help center at support.aminoapps.com runs on a separate host, so it may still open even though the app’s own address is gone.
That last possibility is worth a sentence. Domains that lapse can be registered again by someone new. If aminoapps.com ever answers again, it would not prove that Amino is back, only that the name points somewhere. Check any announcement against a source you already trust before signing in to anything.
Posts, chats and Amino+ subscriptions
Nothing written inside Amino can be recovered through the app or through support. Posts, wiki entries, chat histories and profile pages went with the servers, and the January 2026 message said copies could not be provided. If a community mattered to you, the best remaining sources are screenshots, saved images and anything members copied to other sites while the app still worked.
The paid membership, Amino+, added stickers, custom chat bubbles and higher-resolution images. It was sold through the app stores, which means the billing sits with Apple or Google rather than with Amino. It is worth a quick look at your subscription list. The links in the help section below lead to the cancellation pages of both stores.
Apps that claim to replace Amino
When a large community app vanishes, copies and so-called successors tend to appear quickly. Some are honest attempts by fans to rebuild a space. Others want logins. A new app has no way to bring back your old Amino account, so a request for that email and password is a warning sign, not a feature. If you reused that password elsewhere, change it there now.
Groups that want to stay together usually move to a chat or forum service they already know and share the invite through people who were members. An invite from a former leader you recognise is safer than a search result. If the platform your group moved to fails to load, the Discord status check and the rest of the social media status pages work the usual way.
Official Amino help
- Amino Supportsupport.aminoapps.com
- Cancel a subscription from Applesupport.apple.com
- Cancel a subscription on Google Playsupport.google.com
Questions about Amino
Is Amino down or gone for good?
Gone. Amino stopped working for all users in early December 2025, and its support team confirmed that it ceased operations on December 19, 2025. It is not a temporary outage, and no fix on your phone will bring the app back.
Can I get my Amino posts, chats or data back?
No. A message from Amino support in January 2026 said that personal data was no longer retained after December 19, 2025 and that copies could not be provided. Anything you saved only inside Amino is lost unless you kept screenshots or copies elsewhere.
Can I still download Amino?
No. The app is no longer offered in the App Store, and a phone that deletes it cannot download it again. An Amino app that still sits on a phone will not connect, because the servers behind it are gone.
Am I still paying for Amino+?
Amino+ was billed through the App Store or Google Play. Open the subscription list in your Apple account or in Google Play and look for Amino there. If it still appears as active, cancel it, and ask Apple or Google about any charge made after the shutdown.
Is there a new official Amino app?
No official successor has been announced. Treat any app or website that calls itself the new Amino with suspicion, and never give it the email and password from your old Amino account, especially if you used that password anywhere else.