Facebook Paper was a standalone mobile app created by Facebook, only for iOS, that intended to serve as a phone-based equivalent of a newspaper or magazine.[2][3] The app was announced by Facebook on January 30, 2014, and released for iOS on February 3, 2014.[4][5][6] The iPhone app appeared in the iOS App Store as "Paper – stories from Facebook";[7] there was no iPad version. Facebook shut Paper down on July 29, 2016.[8]