# Forum app disappeared?

**URL:** <https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/forum-app-disappeared/172555>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [August 10, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/forum-app-disappeared/172555 "2025-08-10T02:43:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Payasuo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/payasuo/32/213293_2.png) [@Payasuo](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Payasuo)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/forum-app-disappeared/172555/1 "2025-08-10T02:43:07Z")

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I changed my phone from a Samsung Galaxy to a newer model SG because it was quite literally falling to pieces, and after transfering everything from one phone to the other some apps have disappeared. One I was able to download easily enough, but the COG forum app was nowhere to be found in play store. Strangely enough, after restoring my browser windows one of them was for the forum, which wasn’t there before. Does anyone know what’s up or if there’s something I could do? It was a commodity, but still.

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**Author:** ![AletheiaKnights](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/aletheiaknights/32/270141_2.png) [@AletheiaKnights](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/AletheiaKnights)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/forum-app-disappeared/172555/2 "2025-08-10T04:02:17Z")

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To my knowledge, there never has been a CoG forum app in any app store. I got the app on my screen when I visited the forum and it asked if I wanted to add a forum link to my home screen.

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**Author:** ![Lan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/lan/32/80851_2.png) [@Lan](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Lan)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/forum-app-disappeared/172555/3 "2025-08-10T04:45:52Z")

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It sounds like you added the forum to your phone home screen as a progressive web app (PWA). It wouldn’t show up in the Play Store because PWAs are installed through your browser.

Tutorial:

> **[Turn Websites Into Apps: How to Use Progessive Web Apps](https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/how-to-use-progessive-web-apps#how-to-install-pwas-on-android)**
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> Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs, can turn app-like websites into website-like apps. Browsers are beefing up support for these useful hybrid apps, and we show you how to install and use them.

Alternatively, maybe you installed DiscourseHub?

It’s a standalone app that will let you connect to the COG forums, or any other forum that uses the Discourse forum software. If you’re on multiple Discourse forums you can have them in one place.

> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discourse>
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> Discourse notifier and browse...

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**Author:** ![Payasuo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/payasuo/32/213293_2.png) [@Payasuo](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Payasuo)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/forum-app-disappeared/172555/4 "2025-08-10T18:38:54Z")

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Thank you both. I’d had it for years and couldn’t even really remember from where lol.