Seen above: one of our Android apps in the German version of Amazon Android app store
Dear readers and customers,
yesterday we received an Email that by 20th of August 2025 Amazon app store will close it’s doors on all Android devices.
In the meantime several online media outlets reported about the same sad news, for example Ars Technica, TechCrunch, and many others. In the official FAQ the US retail company mentions no why, unfortunately. Official numbers speak of 70,000 affected apps at the moment.
We are directly affected by this.
The Amazon Android app store was the last one which held all of our Android apps officially and conveniently for users to download. After the closing of Opera app store and our own retreat last year from Google Play Store due to technical issues, there will be no app store method anymore to get our Android apps, unfortunately.
We are sorry about this but can’t do anything.
In the first place the Amazon Android app store was meant to be the number 1 distribution platform for Amazon‘s own devices like the Fire TV and Fire Tablet, which were Android powered. One current rumour in the IT world is these devices don’t sell very well, a platform like this for apps is not needed anymore in general. And secondly, there was just no competition possible against the official app store from Google. Nobody knows for sure because as stated above, there’s no official Amazon reason.
As a sidenote the app store suited very well as an alternative on Android devices with Custom ROMs. Together with F-Droid, the Amazon Android app store could be seen as one of three big distribution platforms for any Android device out there. As of August this year, this will not be an option anymore.
Thanks Amazon for this possibility to be in the app store here. And although it’s always said IT is way too fast for anything, we checked our app submissions and found out that we were part of it for nine long years. We will never forget that and thanks for all who downloaded our apps! You are awesome!
Only the best,
the aethyx staff
