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Amazon to Phase Out Freevee App in August

Consolidating the service’s ad-supported catalog into Prime Video simplifies Amazon’s streaming lineup by boosting opportunities to promote paid content.

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Overview

  • Amazon will retire the standalone Freevee app in August 2025, warning users through an in-app message.
  • Freevee’s ad-supported content will move to Prime Video, where viewers can stream for free with ads even without a Prime subscription.
  • The Freevee app has already been removed from Google Play in Germany and Austria while remaining available on Apple’s App Store in those markets.
  • Freevee provided a limited ad-funded catalog of films, series and FAST channels that excluded Amazon’s full content rights.
  • Amazon has been embedding ads into paid Prime Video streams since September 2023 and offers a €2.99 monthly option to remove them.