On theGoogle Play Store, the app has more than 5 billion downloads and more than 9 million reviews.

Meet, whichreplacedHangouts in 2020, is a videoconferencing app that handles remote gatherings with hundreds of participants.

Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

For Duo users, the name of the app they launch will change to Meet.

Conversation history, contacts and messages won’t be affected and a new app download won’t be required.

Users will also get greater Gmail, Google Calendar, Assistant and Messages integrations.

Google routinely alters products or phases them out.

Apps that don’t attract followings quickly are often axed.

A website,Killed by Google, tracks projects the company has ended.

Its catalog has 267 entries.