MKBHD is taking down his wallpaper app

Marques Brownlee’s Panels wallpaper app is shutting down connected December 31st, hardly a twelvemonth aft its arguable launch. “We made mistakes making our archetypal app, and ultimately, we weren’t capable to crook it into the imaginativeness I had,” Brownlee said successful a video connected the MKBHD YouTube channel.

The Panels launch successful September 2024 was met with a flood of criticism implicit its costly subscription pricing and advertizing setup. “Earlier this year, the constitution of the improvement squad changed, and contempt our champion efforts to bring successful collaborators who shared our passionateness and vision, we weren’t capable to find the close fit,” reads a connection connected the Panels website. “Rather than keeping the app moving without being capable to turn it successful the mode we primitively envisioned, we felt it was champion to marque a cleanable break.”

All idiosyncratic information volition beryllium deleted pursuing the app shutdown, with Brownlee past readying to marque the Panels codification unfastened root and disposable connected GitHub. All subscriptions volition beryllium automatically canceled erstwhile Panels is pulled from app stores, and refunds for progressive subscriptions volition beryllium issued aft December 31st.