Dropbox just delivered some bad news for Mailbox users.
The company will shut down its popular email app along with its its photo storage app Carousel, Dropbox announced Monday. Mailbox will be closed on Feb. 26, 2016; Carousel will shut down March 31, 2016.
Reasons for closing the two apps were vague. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and CTO Arash Ferdowsi called the decision the result of "tough choices" in a blog post announcing the news.
"Over the past few months, we’ve increased our team’s focus on collaboration and simplifying the way people work together. In light of that, we’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Carousel and Mailbox."
Though neither app has a clear replacement, the company says it will bring some of Carousel's "key features" to the Dropbox app. It added that it will be "using what we've learned from Mailbox to build new ways to communicate and collaborate," pointing to its note-taking app Paper, which rolled out in beta earlier this year.
Mailbox was already hugely popular when Dropbox acquired it in 2013, but had been struggling to deal will the massive influx of users. It really took off after the startup was finally able to do away with its waitlist — which at one point was hundreds of thousands of users long.
The app is often credited for introducing gesture-based controls to email, allowing you to organize messages by swiping right or left, a design that has been imitated by dozens of email apps since. Its other signature feature, snoozing emails fro later, has also been copied by many other email apps.
Current Mailbox users will have until Feb 26 to preserve their drafts and other data. Photos from Carousel will live on in the Photos tab of your Dropbox account, though it's not clear if users will need to pay for additional storage.
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