In addition, it wants to at last focus its full energies on making its To Do app the best alternative to Wunderlist. Microsoft says it decided to now move to close down Wunderlist because it has stopped releasing new features for the app and, as the app ages, it will become more difficult to maintain. So returning to Wunderlist never really seemed feasible.)
(Reber is currently involved with a new content collaboration startup, Pitch, which he co-founded. Reber wasn’t expressing sour grapes, necessarily, but rather a desire to fulfill his original vision for the app, which included building out features like shared folders and cross-team collaboration, for example. It also integrated To Do with other Microsoft apps like Outlook, Microsoft Planner, Cortana and Microsoft Launcher on Android.Īt the same time, Wunderlist’s creator Christian Reber took to Twitter to express remorse over Wunderlist’s coming closure, and even suggested he would buy the app back if allowed. In September, Microsoft unveiled another upgrade for To Do which hinted the Wunderlist shut down could be nearing, with the addition of new backgrounds, smart lists and a personalized daily planner offering smart suggestions of tasks to be accomplished. In the meantime, Microsoft has been working to ensure that users’ favorite features - like list groups (folders), steps (subtasks), file attachments, sharing and task assignments - made their way over to Microsoft To Do. And the company prepared Wunderlist users for the app’s inevitable closure as far back as April 2017. Some Wunderlist users may be disappointed but, to be fair, Microsoft allowed Wunderlist to operate far longer than expected, compared with how most acquisitions of this nature tend to go. After this date, Wunderlist to-dos will no longer sync, but users will still be able to import their content into Microsoft’s own To Do app.
Today, Microsoft is finally announcing a shut-down date for Wunderlist of May 6, 2020. Microsoft has for years promised it would eventually shut down to-do list app Wunderlist, which it acquired in 2015, in favor of its own app, To Do - after it felt the latter was able to offer a competitive experience that included Wunderlist’s best features.
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