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Tapatalk Pro for Android Will be Retiring on May 16th!

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Tapatalk Pro for Android Will be Retiring on May 16th!


The circle is almost complete! On May 16th, Tapatalk Pro for Android will be retired and Tapatalk will continue on as a single app on Google Play. Tapatalk’s free app will be absorbing all the back-end improvements and features of Pro and will include all the latest and greatest fixes, features, and updates in a single app. We are giving all potential shoppers a heads up in advance of Tapatalk Pro’s retirement day so refunds will not be processed after May 16th.

Current Tapatalk Pro users: You won’t be losing your Pro status as a Tapatalk Pro supporter. The transition to a single free app means that we are going to have to find a new way to enable you to use all your Pro features with the same app everyone has access to. To achieve this, we are enabling “Tapatalk VIP” status for all users who have purchased Tapatalk Pro. What does Tapatalk VIP mean? It means while logged into your Tapatalk ID, you can browse without advertising regardless of admin toggles, your image uploads will be watermark free, and of course be image upload storage will be unlimited as well.

To be able to differentiate from a free user and a past Pro user, a Tapatalk ID will be required to turn on Tapatalk VIP status. So if you are a Tapatalk Pro user, be sure to log in or create a Tapatalk ID before May 16th for continued access to these features. Advertising will still be governed by admin settings from your individual forum owners for all other users. So ads may or may not appear depending on your community.

Side note: we are rewarding our active Tapatalk support forum members who have 5 posts or more as of May 2nd, with Tapatalk VIP accounts as well. Thank you for your support and feedback!

With this, Tapatalk will effectively be unified into a single app on Android. Combining all the major features and fixes of each app into one. While continue to evolve and tweak the Tapatalk experience, maintaining a single app will allow us to focus the development of Tapatalk in the areas that matter the most.
Source: Tapatalk Blog
 
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Perhaps as a way to generate revenue for development like usual apps, the Tapatalk Pro app purchase offered forum browsing advertisement-free, but this conflicted with the notion of app ads vs. website ads. Site admins were likely unhappy about it since they got nothing in return for serving these users, so they nuked it.

They probably learned to handle the migration better than pissing off users who bought the older abandoned versions of Tapatalk, and grandfathered the ad-free feature this time.
 
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