One of the more prominent alternative app stores that emerged in the EU as an inevitable result of the region’s Digital Markets Act is shutting down. The store,Setapp Mobile, from the Ukrainian-based developer MacPaw, first launched in September 2024, offering dozens of apps across categories like productivity, finance, video, photo, creativity, and more.
Its model offered consumers access to all of setapp’s mobile apps through a $9.99 monthly subscription, provided the user’s Apple ID was associated with an EU member state.
Now the company says all applications will be removed from Setapp Mobile by the end of the sunset date, February 16, 2026. Applications that are available on Setapp Desktop will not be affected, the company told TechCrunch.
The news of the shutdown, announced on Setapp’s support site, was first spotted by MacRumors.
MacPaw stated that “still