Miitomo
Nintendo's first smartphone app turned friends' answers into Mii conversations and surreal photos, then deleted the social space worldwide after two years.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released social application built around Nintendo Mii characters, questions and image creation.
Users dressed avatars, answered personal prompts, discovered friends' responses and composed shareable Miifoto scenes.
Existence timeline
Nintendo reveals its first smartphone application.
Miitomo opens before its international rollout.
The social app reaches major overseas markets.
Coin sales end and users receive advance notice.
All regions close simultaneously.
Nintendo removes the remaining product website.
Why it ended
Nintendo ended service globally on 9 May 2018 because continuing usage had declined and operational resources were being redirected.
Last confirmed trace
Nintendo's Australian support page, surviving Miifoto images, videos and account avatars preserve fragments of the social experiment.
What it left behind
Miitomo gave Nintendo operational experience for later mobile games while leaving behind a particularly personal body of user-created images.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.