There is nothing to download on this page, and that is the honest answer. AO3 has no official app, so there is no official AO3 app file — no APK, no IPA, no installer — for Android, iPhone or any other device. Any site offering you an "AO3 app download" is offering you something the Organization for Transformative Works never made.
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Why fake AO3 app downloads are dangerous
Fake app files are one of the oldest tricks around, and AO3 readers are a big target because so many people search for an app. A downloaded "AO3 APK" can carry malware, show aggressive ads, or open a copy of the login page that sends your username and password to whoever built it. Once someone has your AO3 password, they can post under your name, delete your works and lock you out of your account.
The risk got worse during the outage that started on 29 October 2026. AO3 was down after a security incident and stayed in maintenance until 15 November 2026, and fake download pages popped up promising an app that "still works." No app could work — they all read from the same servers. Files pushed during that window deserve extra suspicion.
What to do instead
The button on this page takes you to the one real destination: archiveofourown.org. Open it in Chrome on Android or Safari on iPhone, log in there, and add the site to your home screen. It takes about a minute:
- On Android, open the site in Chrome, tap the three-dot menu, then tap "Add to Home screen."
- On iPhone, open the site in Safari, tap Share, then tap "Add to Home Screen."
- Name it AO3. The icon now opens the site full screen, like an app, with your login kept safely in your browser.
Our step-by-step walkthrough with the full details is the post on how to add AO3 to your home screen. If you want to read without a connection, skip installers entirely — AO3 itself lets you save any work as EPUB, AZW3, MOBI, PDF or HTML from the Download button on the work's page, and our offline reading post shows how to open those files in Apple Books, Google Play Books, Kindle or Moon+ Reader.
Already installed a fake?
Delete the app. Then open archiveofourown.org in your browser, log in, and change your password — especially if you ever typed it into that app. Check your posted works and account settings for anything you did not do. From then on, read in the browser. It is the whole archive, it is free, and nobody can slip a fake login page between you and your stories.