BYJU’S Disappears from Play Store: EdTech Giant’s App Goes Offline

The edtech startup BYJU'S has removed its Android app from the Play Store due to continued rumblings and insolvency procedures. A preliminary search of the Play Store yields no results for BYJU'S main app.

Three additional apps, nevertheless, are still accessible: "Think and Learn Premium App", "TL Pay", and "TL Collect", which are credit processing systems. Notably, the BYJU'S app is still accessible through the Apple App Store, but it has backend problems that prevent it from using some of its essential functions on other platforms.

According to sources who spoke to a media outlet, the majority of the SEO-optimised pages on the BYJU'S website have disappeared, and current users can no longer access premium subscriptions or video material.

Website Reduced to Basic Landing Page

With essential features including free sessions (for children in classes four through nine) and the BYJU'S Early Learn programme, the edtech platform's website has been reduced to a simple landing page and is presently displaying server failures.

 According to the article, the company's cloud infrastructure is powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the disruption was caused by unpaid invoices. According to various media reports, "disruptions in payments for its services" led to the app's removal from the Play Store.

BYJU'S has been attempting to put out fires on several fronts at the moment. The edtech business has been embroiled in a number of scandals over the last three years, including numerous rounds of layoffs, increasing losses, late financial statement filings, legal disputes, regulatory scrutiny, and more.

The company's founders have engaged in a verbal sparring match with its creditors and investors. The largest setback occurred when the business stopped paying on its $1.2 billion term loan B (TLB) in 2023, causing lenders to file lawsuits in several different countries.

Why BYJU’s Witnessing Massive Decline?

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) filed a case with the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) last year to recover INR 158 Cr in unpaid debts related to a sponsorship agreement, putting the edtech giant, which was once valued at $22 billion, in the midst of insolvency proceedings.

As more lenders joined and attempted to liquidate the business in order to recoup their unpaid debts, the situation swiftly got out of hand. Pankaj Srivastava was appointed by the tribunal as an interim resolution professional (IRP) to supervise the proceedings in the aftermath.

Even that went wrong when the tribunal ordered Srivastava to face disciplinary action in January 2025 and overturned his decision to exclude Aditya Birla Finance and GLAS Trust, which represents a group of BYJU'S TLB creditors, from the committee of creditors (CoC).

Srivastava allegedly informed the NCLT that the law firm Khaitan & Co. intimidated and threatened him to designate EY as the process advisor for the edtech firm's probe, even though Shailendra Ajmera was named the new IRP.