diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/pl/playbar2/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/pl/playbar2/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c878dd67a748..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/pl/playbar2/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  cmake,
-  libsForQt5,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
-  pname = "playbar2";
-  version = "2.5";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "jsmitar";
-    repo = "PlayBar2";
-    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
-    hash = "sha256-kC04yyt0vCsie8HGJySSiDNzkWKAGncmyOKrRx2pYkc=";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    cmake
-    libsForQt5.extra-cmake-modules
-  ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    libsForQt5.plasma-framework
-    libsForQt5.kwindowsystem
-  ];
-
-  dontWrapQtApps = true;
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace CMakeLists.txt \
-      --replace-fail "cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12 FATAL_ERROR)" "cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)"
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Mpris2 Client for Plasma5";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/jsmitar/PlayBar2";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl3;
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ pjones ];
-  };
-})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 498c7ddbc5f9..80663e0accc7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1686,6 +1686,7 @@ mapAliases {
   plasma-theme-switcher = throw "'plasma-theme-switcher' has been removed, as it is only compatible with Plasma 5, which is EOL"; # Added 2025-08-20
   platformioPackages.platformio-chrootenv = platformio-chrootenv; # Added 2025-09-04
   platformioPackages.platformio-core = platformio-core; # Added 2025-09-04
+  playbar2 = throw "'playbar2' has been removed, as Plasma 5 has reached end of life."; # Added 2026-05-01
   plex-media-player = throw "'plex-media-player' has been discontinued, the new official client is available as 'plex-desktop'"; # Added 2025-05-28
   PlistCpp = throw "'PlistCpp' has been renamed to/replaced by 'plistcpp'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   pltScheme = throw "'pltScheme' has been renamed to/replaced by 'racket'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27