diff --git a/packages/vinext/src/shims/app.ts b/packages/vinext/src/shims/app.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 53ec6849d..000000000
--- a/packages/vinext/src/shims/app.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * next/app shim
- *
- * Provides the AppProps type and default App component for _app.tsx.
- */
-import type { ComponentType } from "react";
-
-export type AppProps<P = Record<string, unknown>> = {
-  Component: ComponentType<P>;
-  pageProps: P;
-};
-
-// Re-export for named import compatibility
-export type { AppProps as default };
diff --git a/packages/vinext/src/shims/app.tsx b/packages/vinext/src/shims/app.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d357c2d45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/vinext/src/shims/app.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+/**
+ * next/app shim
+ *
+ * Provides the AppProps type and a runtime default `App` class component
+ * for Pages Router fixtures that follow the canonical `_app.js` pattern:
+ *
+ *   import App from "next/app";
+ *   export default class MyApp extends App { ... }
+ *
+ * or call `App.getInitialProps(appContext)` from a custom getInitialProps.
+ *
+ * Ported from Next.js:
+ *   https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/packages/next/src/pages/_app.tsx
+ *
+ * Behavioural parity notes:
+ * - `App.getInitialProps(appContext)` returns `{ pageProps }`, where
+ *   `pageProps` comes from the wrapped page's own `getInitialProps` (if
+ *   any). This matches Next.js's behaviour via `loadGetInitialProps`.
+ * - `render()` returns `<Component {...pageProps} />` — the default
+ *   behaviour Next.js documents for the built-in App.
+ * - `origGetInitialProps` is preserved alongside `getInitialProps` for
+ *   userland code that introspects the original implementation.
+ *
+ * Type signatures mirror Next.js's intentionally permissive `<P = any>`
+ * generics so that userland subclasses like `class MyApp extends App`
+ * type-check without forcing the caller to supply generic parameters.
+ */
+// oxlint-disable typescript/no-explicit-any -- match Next.js's permissive _app.tsx generics
+import React, { type ComponentType } from "react";
+
+export type AppProps<P = any> = {
+  Component: ComponentType<P> & {
+    getInitialProps?: (ctx: any) => any;
+  };
+  pageProps: P;
+  router?: any;
+  __N_SSG?: boolean;
+  __N_SSP?: boolean;
+};
+
+/**
+ * The context passed to `App.getInitialProps`. Mirrors Next.js's
+ * `AppContextType` from `packages/next/src/shared/lib/utils.ts`.
+ */
+export type AppContext = {
+  Component: ComponentType<any> & {
+    getInitialProps?: (ctx: any) => any;
+  };
+  AppTree: ComponentType<any>;
+  ctx: any;
+  router: any;
+};
+
+/**
+ * The initial props shape returned by `App.getInitialProps`. Mirrors
+ * Next.js's `AppInitialProps` from `packages/next/src/shared/lib/utils.ts`.
+ */
+export type AppInitialProps<PageProps = any> = {
+  pageProps: PageProps;
+};
+
+async function appGetInitialProps({ Component, ctx }: AppContext): Promise<AppInitialProps> {
+  // Next.js delegates this to `loadGetInitialProps(Component, ctx)`. For the
+  // canonical _app pattern the relevant behaviour is: invoke the wrapped
+  // page's `getInitialProps` if defined, otherwise return `{}` for
+  // pageProps. We replicate that minimal shape without pulling in the
+  // full development-only validation logic from utils.ts.
+  let pageProps: any = {};
+  if (typeof Component.getInitialProps === "function") {
+    pageProps = await Component.getInitialProps(ctx);
+    // Divergence from Next.js (intentional, current scope):
+    //
+    // Next.js's `loadGetInitialProps` throws when a page's getInitialProps
+    // resolves to null/undefined:
+    //
+    //   "<DisplayName>.getInitialProps() should resolve to an object.
+    //    But found "null"/"undefined" instead."
+    //
+    // See: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/packages/next/src/shared/lib/utils.ts
+    //
+    // vinext currently coerces the missing value to `{}` so that fixtures
+    // and userland code that accidentally return nothing still render
+    // (just with empty pageProps) instead of crashing the page. If you're
+    // debugging a Pages Router page that renders with mysteriously empty
+    // props, suspect a `getInitialProps` that returns undefined — Next.js
+    // would have surfaced that as a thrown error at this point.
+    if (pageProps == null) {
+      pageProps = {};
+    }
+  }
+  return { pageProps };
+}
+
+export default class App<P = any, CP = any, S = any> extends React.Component<P & AppProps<CP>, S> {
+  static origGetInitialProps = appGetInitialProps;
+  static getInitialProps = appGetInitialProps;
+
+  render(): React.ReactNode {
+    const { Component, pageProps } = this.props as AppProps<CP>;
+    // Cast to ComponentType<any> so the JSX spread type-checks regardless
+    // of the user-supplied `CP` generic. Mirrors how Next.js's _app.tsx
+    // works in practice: callers extending `App` rarely supply explicit
+    // page-prop generics, so the spread has to be permissive here.
+    const PageComponent = Component as ComponentType<any>;
+    return <PageComponent {...pageProps} />;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/vinext/src/shims/next-shims.d.ts b/packages/vinext/src/shims/next-shims.d.ts
index d5c7c0f13..c254aab14 100644
--- a/packages/vinext/src/shims/next-shims.d.ts
+++ b/packages/vinext/src/shims/next-shims.d.ts
@@ -504,11 +504,46 @@ declare module "next/font/local" {
 }
 
 declare module "next/app" {
-  import { ComponentType } from "react";
-  export type AppProps = {
-    Component: ComponentType<any>;
-    pageProps: Record<string, unknown>;
+  import * as React from "react";
+  import type { ComponentType } from "react";
+
+  export type AppProps<P = any> = {
+    Component: ComponentType<P> & {
+      getInitialProps?: (ctx: any) => any;
+    };
+    pageProps: P;
+    router?: any;
+    __N_SSG?: boolean;
+    __N_SSP?: boolean;
+  };
+
+  export type AppContext = {
+    Component: ComponentType<any> & {
+      getInitialProps?: (ctx: any) => any;
+    };
+    AppTree: ComponentType<any>;
+    ctx: any;
+    router: any;
   };
+
+  export type AppInitialProps<PageProps = any> = {
+    pageProps: PageProps;
+  };
+
+  /**
+   * Default `App` class component used by Pages Router `_app.js`. Mirrors
+   * Next.js's `packages/next/src/pages/_app.tsx` so userland code can
+   * `import App from "next/app"` and either subclass or call
+   * `App.getInitialProps(appContext)` directly.
+   */
+  export default class App<P = any, CP = any, S = any> extends React.Component<
+    P & AppProps<CP>,
+    S
+  > {
+    static origGetInitialProps: (ctx: AppContext) => Promise<AppInitialProps>;
+    static getInitialProps: (ctx: AppContext) => Promise<AppInitialProps>;
+    render(): React.ReactNode;
+  }
 }
 
 declare module "next/cache" {
diff --git a/tests/shims.test.ts b/tests/shims.test.ts
index 8867b0332..a35426e5e 100644
--- a/tests/shims.test.ts
+++ b/tests/shims.test.ts
@@ -12120,6 +12120,84 @@ describe("next/error shim", () => {
   });
 });
 
+// next/app default export
+//
+// Ported from Next.js: packages/next/src/pages/_app.tsx
+// https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/packages/next/src/pages/_app.tsx
+//
+// Pages Router fixtures very commonly do:
+//   import App from "next/app";
+//   export default class MyApp extends App { ... }
+// or call App.getInitialProps(appContext) from a custom getInitialProps.
+// Without a runtime default export, every such fixture fails to build with
+// "[MISSING_EXPORT] 'default' is not exported by ...shims/app.js".
+describe("next/app shim", () => {
+  it("exports a React class component as default", async () => {
+    const React = await import("react");
+    const AppDefault = (await import("../packages/vinext/src/shims/app.js")).default;
+    expect(typeof AppDefault).toBe("function");
+    // Class component: prototype must have a render method, instances must
+    // be instances of React.Component.
+    expect(typeof AppDefault.prototype.render).toBe("function");
+    const instance = new AppDefault({ Component: () => null, pageProps: {} });
+    expect(instance).toBeInstanceOf(React.Component);
+  });
+
+  it("default App.render() returns <Component {...pageProps} />", async () => {
+    const React = await import("react");
+    const { renderToStaticMarkup } = await import("react-dom/server");
+    const AppDefault = (await import("../packages/vinext/src/shims/app.js")).default;
+
+    function Page(props: { greeting: string }) {
+      return React.createElement("p", null, props.greeting);
+    }
+
+    // Use explicit generics so React.createElement's prop type inference
+    // lines up with `AppProps<{ greeting: string }>`.
+    const html = renderToStaticMarkup(
+      React.createElement(AppDefault<unknown, { greeting: string }>, {
+        Component: Page,
+        pageProps: { greeting: "hello world" },
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(html).toBe("<p>hello world</p>");
+  });
+
+  it("App.getInitialProps is a function and forwards Component.getInitialProps result as pageProps", async () => {
+    const AppDefault = (await import("../packages/vinext/src/shims/app.js")).default;
+    expect(typeof AppDefault.getInitialProps).toBe("function");
+    // origGetInitialProps is preserved for userland code that introspects it.
+    expect(typeof AppDefault.origGetInitialProps).toBe("function");
+
+    const pageCtx = { req: { url: "/test" } };
+    const Component = Object.assign(() => null, {
+      getInitialProps: async (ctx: unknown) => {
+        expect(ctx).toBe(pageCtx);
+        return { foo: "bar" };
+      },
+    });
+
+    const result = await AppDefault.getInitialProps({
+      Component,
+      AppTree: () => null,
+      ctx: pageCtx,
+      router: {},
+    });
+    expect(result).toEqual({ pageProps: { foo: "bar" } });
+  });
+
+  it("App.getInitialProps returns { pageProps: {} } when Component has no getInitialProps", async () => {
+    const AppDefault = (await import("../packages/vinext/src/shims/app.js")).default;
+    const result = await AppDefault.getInitialProps({
+      Component: () => null,
+      AppTree: () => null,
+      ctx: {},
+      router: {},
+    });
+    expect(result).toEqual({ pageProps: {} });
+  });
+});
+
 describe("next/constants shim", () => {
   it("exports all phase constants", async () => {
     const constants = await import("../packages/vinext/src/shims/constants.js");