I Tried Marques Brownlee's New Wallpaper App So You Don't Have To
I Tried Marques Brownlee's New Wallpaper App So You Don't Have To
Today MKBHD, one of the most well known (and one of my favorite) tech influencers on the platform announced the launch of a new phone wallpaper app with a subscription option. The response was… wild.
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Normal people just use Unsplash.
The most hilarious thing about all this for me is, that this app doesn't even start on my new Pixel 9 Pro Fold. It just crashes on startup.
coulda just made the game 5 bucks to download and done. Fair price and he'd made a few hundred just through the map, and you can't really expect to get more for a simple wallpaper app
Edit: the reason why it's 50 a year is so when you buy it once, to download all the wallpapers, is so you can't just cancel a day later and only spend 5 bucks
google has a wallpaper app that will give random wallpapers based on a theme, and wallpaper engine has an android app that links to the pc version to put the pc wallpapers on mobile
Even KWLP (the most customizable android live wallpaper) is only $5…….
Yes,most theme are paid but all the money goes to the artist (plus a single theme only cost $1)
This app literally feels like it was made by a junior web-dev who just discovered React-Native. Really sad to see from someone as big and influential as MKBHD.
Am i lost…isn't this just like any wallpaper app or something like zedge??
heck you dude I generated a bunch of wallpapers and uploaded them on there claiming as my work and was making bank until you made this video
I actually do use wallpaper apps. Most of the images on search engines are shit. And I haven’t found a good place to get double wallpapers that transition from the Lock Screen to the Home Screen without using a wallpaper app.
That's that dude with that row home, nice
Looks like MKBHD wants that 50% revenue generation without doing anything. Why put in any effort? Pay some contractors to design the app and slap your face on it for marketing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good video! This was recommended on my home page and it’s my first video I’ve seen from you. You brought up a lot of points I also thought about and you’re a funny guy! Keep up the good work
Why would I use this when I can use Wallpaper Engine and get cool animated wallpapers on my phone for free, and can even make my own LOL
Are people just now realising MKBHD is black
What do Marques and Will Smith have in common?
One wrong move and I lost ALL respect for them.
Whoever is surprised by this has not been paying attention. If anything, the only surprise is that Marques didn't back a less obvious cash grab.
I hear he's working on a ring tone app next.
To be honest, I belive that he gets all these questions about his wallpapers he uses. I have a tech review Freind he also does constant.
The thing is, he puts a lot of emphasis on “good” wallpapers because he uses a lot of them for his videos. With all the Devices or just the screens that are always in the background, etc. He probably uses matching wallpapers for the shots every time to get more aesthetics for the video. People see that and ask him about it. If your video has 1 million clicks and 1000 people ask you about it every time, you probably think that's a lot. So I think he just has a wrong picture of the situation, how high the demand and appreciation for extra wallpapers that you can legally use as you want is in the end. Two different worlds collide here. 99% of the people are not YouTubers that need endless new high rez all rights to me Wallpapers. We just rip the fotos from google und crop the logos out. ^^
It would be best if he had done the following: Here are all the wallpapers I have ever used. in my Videos
Here is a Patreon, (or something similar) subscribe if you want to support the artists.
We do a 50/50 or 25/75 split. With each video the new images will be added.
And just done.
Because I think people also specifically just want what he has used and not his direct source, if you fell me.
The GPS Stuff is bad tho!
Zedge is already a wall paper app. Can't have an app like that when Zedge is free
MKB was not the sole reason the rabbit failed…the thing was just shit service that got hacked within a couple of weeks when it came out it was just a disaster
People have been actually asking him about his wallpapers for years 😀 I assume a lot less people must be asking in 2024 but he wasn't lying.
Just take a photo of a bus or train seat. Instant free wallpaper.
3:36 not cool. iPhones do this automatically so that doesn’t really add anything that I couldn’t get by finding the same image on google
1:47 he is competing with wall paper engine too.
They dominate the market and have by far the best app and it’s a one time £3 payment. Most people use it on pc obviously but they are an insanely good app.
He can’t match it and he can’t match the price or the compatibility.
$5 a year maybe even $10 and that's stretching it but $50? Mkbhd is out of touch.
Marques did the humane ai pin on panels. who can be mad of him. He reached it all saw the pin and thought "challenge accepted i can fuck up even more" Nice Job Marques
I wouldn't say it's very fair to say no one has been asking for his wallpapers. It is (and has been) one of the top google searches related to his name. App is still whack though.
When is your branded NerdWaifu AI coming out?
its paid to support the artists behind the pictures /wallpapers …. simple as that
OMG What was he thinking!
What the 😅 I'm guessing Marques isnt PERFECT afterall! I literally had to check if it was april, nope still september 😂
LMAO thanks for being real
MKBHD launching a 2009 app in 2024 is wild. lol
Completely agree with everything you've said. It doesn't add anything I can't already easily do for free. If this was something like wallpaper engine where it's a one time purchase and it adds something that's not native(at least not easily done) to my device, what exactly am I doing here?
If it doesn't have a barely moderated anime category full of badly upscaled, stolen hentai – it just ain't a wallpaper app for me.
I'm guessing a screen saver app for pc's is next at $100 a year.
Yeah, I don't get this. And I'm even someone who paid for my wallpaper, but that's because it was a Samsung Theme with matching icons and all the bells and whistles. Just a one time payment of a couple bucks and I'm happy with my phone.
I do like that this app seeks to put money in the pockets of the photographers/artists… but still, this is way too expensive for what it is.
I had to watch two ads just to download some s*** 1080p wallpaper! Lol. Other than thankfully I didn't see any of those ads probably because I use a private DNS which must block them.
His monetization scheme on this app is so outrageous, I'm actually worried I could convince other app developers to raise their prices. All of that said I do use wallpaper apps. I use the Google wallpaper app although that's considered stock on the pixels. But I use a lot of live wallpapers and But often requires an app. You can make your own live wallpapers with video to wallpaper app.
Wallman is a great Android app that you can side load that has access to every Pixel live wallpaper ever made. You can even use them on non-pixel devices which is largely the point. I will also sideload wallpapers live wallpapers from xiaomi and oppo phones. Xda often provides links to these and they have some cool ones like their super-earth and Mars wallpapers. Or far away rings of Saturn.
But there are thousands of wallpaper apps with better quality images than MHKBD, they have live wallpapers and custom features and everything… His doesn't have any of that. And you can get them usually for free and then sometimes they'll be a couple features lock behind a paywall for two or three bucks…
And that's largely just a way to help the developer. So his monetization scheme is borderline scammy … It's only a step above an NFT scheme in terms of the pricing.
Yeah this app is the biggest paygrab from a guy who puts his name over some of the biggest channels in tech. It's so sad
Thanks, Nerd.