If you"re an active user of Dropbox Paper, there"s some bad news: The company will be killing its mobile app for both Android and iOS on October 9, 2025, to "focus on delivering a consistent, high-quality experience on paper.dropbox.com".
Paper is Dropbox"s take on a collaborative document editor, letting you create and edit documents in real time with others, embed media, and manage tasks. The mobile apps for this service first launched in open beta and saw their eventual release in August 2016, several months after Dropbox"s shutdown of Carousel and Mailbox.
For those who do not remember, Carousel was a photo gallery app, while Mailbox was an email client praised for its gesture controls. Both applications were acquired and later axed as the company refocused its efforts. Paper, for its part, has always been a solid tool but failed to reach the popularity of its main competitors from Google or Microsoft.
Paper is still available on the web (and mobile) via paper.dropbox.com, which is where the company wants everyone to go. After the cutoff date, Dropbox says it will remove the apps from the Play Store and App Store. If you already have one installed, some parts of the apps will no longer function, so you might as well delete it.
The company promises that things like notifications about activity will keep working. You will get alerts for comments, @mentions, and changes to documents you follow through email and the main Dropbox mobile application. Sharing will also keep working.
Since your documents are stored in the cloud, you can continue to access them after the discontinuation date. The Dropbox Paper desktop app, however, is another story.
If you"re a desktop user, there"s also some bad news, as the company is killing its desktop app on the same day. This application was always in a beta phase and never saw a full public release.
Dropbox says it will remind users of the change via email on October 1, 2025.