Marques Brownlee’s Panels wallpaper app is shutting down on December thirty first, barely a 12 months after its controversial launch. “We made errors making our first app, and finally, we weren’t in a position to flip it into the imaginative and prescient I had,” Brownlee mentioned in a video on the MKBHD YouTube channel.
The Panels launch in September 2024 was met with a flood of criticism over its costly subscription pricing and promoting setup. “Earlier this 12 months, the make-up of the event workforce modified, and regardless of our greatest efforts to usher in collaborators who shared our ardour and imaginative and prescient, we weren’t capable of finding the correct match,” reads a message on the Panels website. “Somewhat than holding the app operating with out with the ability to develop it in the best way we initially envisioned, we felt it was greatest to make a clear break.”
All consumer knowledge will likely be deleted following the app shutdown, with Brownlee then planning to make the Panels code open supply and out there on GitHub. All subscriptions will likely be mechanically canceled when Panels is pulled from app shops, and refunds for lively subscriptions will likely be issued after December thirty first.
