diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c07d28369..2bab448c0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1269,7 +1269,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "glow",
  "glutin",
  "glutin-winit",
- "home",
  "image",
  "js-sys",
  "log",
@@ -2204,15 +2203,6 @@ version = "0.4.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7f24254aa9a54b5c858eaee2f5bccdb46aaf0e486a595ed5fd8f86ba55232a70"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "home"
-version = "0.5.12"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cc627f471c528ff0c4a49e1d5e60450c8f6461dd6d10ba9dcd3a61d3dff7728d"
-dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "http"
 version = "1.4.2"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5a4193dad..884f9c7de 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ glow = "0.17.0" # Can't update to 0.18: wgpu 30's wgpu-hal pins glow 0.17, so bu
 glutin = { version = "0.32.3", default-features = false }
 glutin-winit = { version = "0.5.0", default-features = false }
 harfrust = "0.12.0"
-home = "0.5.12"
 image = { version = "0.25.6", default-features = false } # Can't update to 0.25.7+: it needs png 0.18, which only matches resvg once resvg moves to tiny-skia 0.12 — blocked, see resvg below
 itertools = "0.15.0"
 jiff = { version = "0.2.35", default-features = false }
diff --git a/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml b/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml
index 60b796bc5..65e3150a8 100644
--- a/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ default_fonts = ["egui/default_fonts"]
 glow = ["dep:egui_glow", "dep:glow", "dep:glutin-winit", "dep:glutin"]
 
 ## Enable saving app state to disk.
-persistence = ["dep:home", "egui-winit/serde", "egui/persistence", "ron", "serde"]
+persistence = ["egui-winit/serde", "egui/persistence", "ron", "serde"]
 
 ## Enables wayland support and fixes clipboard issue.
 ##
@@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ glutin-winit = { workspace = true, optional = true, default-features = false, fe
   "egl",
   "wgl",
 ] }
-home = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
 # mac:
 [target.'cfg(any(target_os = "macos"))'.dependencies]
diff --git a/crates/eframe/src/native/file_storage.rs b/crates/eframe/src/native/file_storage.rs
index 947554a00..830fdcc24 100644
--- a/crates/eframe/src/native/file_storage.rs
+++ b/crates/eframe/src/native/file_storage.rs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ pub fn storage_dir(app_id: &str) -> Option<PathBuf> {
         OS::Nix => var_os("XDG_DATA_HOME")
             .map(PathBuf::from)
             .filter(|p| p.is_absolute())
-            .or_else(|| home::home_dir().map(|p| p.join(".local").join("share")))
+            .or_else(|| std::env::home_dir().map(|p| p.join(".local").join("share")))
             .map(|p| {
                 p.join(
                     app_id
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ pub fn storage_dir(app_id: &str) -> Option<PathBuf> {
                         .replace(|c: char| c.is_ascii_whitespace(), ""),
                 )
             }),
-        OS::Mac => home::home_dir().map(|p| {
+        OS::Mac => std::env::home_dir().map(|p| {
             p.join("Library")
                 .join("Application Support")
                 .join(app_id.replace(|c: char| c.is_ascii_whitespace(), "-"))