NOTE: It was raised to my attention that the app is made with Kotlin KMP not react native (like I assumed). However the sentiment …
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Panels by MKBHD App REVIEW – An Honest App Developer Perspective
NOTE: It was raised to my attention that the app is made with Kotlin KMP not react native (like I assumed). However the sentiment …
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What do you think about panels? Leave your thoughts in the comment section 👇
Just as a sidenote, MKBHD is one of my favourite YouTubers out there and I rely heavily on his reviews for my own purchases.
With that said this video is not an attack on him or his YouTube chanel but more a way for him and his team to improve the app going forward!
Like the Idea – Test it – Like the Price and the App – Pay for it. If the chain breaks, move on. Don’t waste your time futzing about it
Heya, it would've been cool if reviewed the app while going through it.
Pinteres or unsplashed. There, saved you 50😂😂😂😂😂😂
Twitter screenshot thumbnail thats actually a real tweet? 😮
The space between his brand and this wallpaper app requires faster than light travel to cross
It's a free app. The money part is optional.
But devs have to be paid, artists have to be paid. So there has to be ads.
“Support the artist” ahh Twitter users want us to support artist livelihoods, when we have artists like this providing services like these.
Nobody should feel rightgeous gatekeep and nickel-and-dime wallpapers, let alone everything else in our lives.
Its like trying to kill the rat in a chefs hat because “lazy dummy bad! overworked poor-man good!”
For me the issue is that a lot of the artists were NFT sellers and then even today their images are still available at full res on their websites FOR FREE…and MKBHD is trying to sell us things that are free…which he's stated for over a decade multiple times that the golden number 1 rule of selling anything is not trying to sell something that was once free.
I find it very strange how Mkbhd known for high quality videos just released a $50 yearly subscription spyware app like what? 😂😂
Great review 🙏🏽
Following like Ubisoft
Complete loss of credibility for MKBHD imho. Low effort grift.
You should have mentioned that none of the social links at the bottom of the Panels website work. Also, linking the contact button on a website built on Webflow's to a Google form is contradictory from a design standpoint. Not great tbh
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It's not made from React, It's using Kotlin KMP.
Using Compose for the development
Source: Licenses page in the Panels app
Great breakdown. As a test engineer I also found couple of unpolished details, like when you are buying a specific wallpaper pack from a creator, the text is overlaid on the price. Gives a feeling of a scammy rushed app. Overall I was baffled, even a quick unit tests would’ve found these imperfections.
I don't care about it asking to track, I don't even let apps ask. But you skipped over that Consent screen which requires you to click many many times to make sure all options are off. That is user hostile. Why not have consent and don't consent, or at least 1 click to disable all tracking? Once I saw that I just deleted it
the app was actually made using kotlin ktm
Bro, he lost a little bit of respect and trust. Maybe he has bad advisors and yes-men around him, or he has lost touch with the common people, Because the app is unfortunately rubbish and no sensible person would spend 12 euros a month on a wallpaper.
What's the value? Netflix and YouTube Premium are worth that amount to me.
People feel like they're being ripped off when he says he was pumped to show us his app. He gave us garbage. I once used circle to search and Google gave me wallpaper for free.
It's a cash grab. Furthermore, he damaged his reputation by delivering what he once called the golden rule of the Internet: never pay for something you get for free. Wallpapers are available for free in billions. He also preaches never to buy anything with the promise of future improvement, but it was precisely these future improvements that were his argument for the subscription. With all the love and good nature, you can't take this seriously or sugarcoat it. But the worst thing is how primitive and simple the app is, it is neither pretty nor intuitive nor does it have cool animations and the advertising, I won't even get started on that.
The problem is he exaggerated, consciously or unconsciously. He said he was "pumped" to show us the app. He showed us a badly executed primitive app for wallpapers and an outrageous price