Sad to see, but not unexpected at all. The gems always come and go. And the fact that a piracy project is giving its users a more graceful exit period says a lot about the digital distribution industry. Music streaming services will silently wipe tracks off of the platform without giving you any warning, these guys gave a nearly half a year warning and a month+ period to download your stuff.
update
Check the website again they changed their minds.
Nevermind about the shutdown, we will be working on turning monochrome into a legal bring your own music app.
we plan to support subsonic, local files, and the ability to bring accounts from other services. This will hopefully only take a week (though longer if needed). please stick with us during the time being.
if you'd still like to export your data, you can do so here.
iBroadcast competitor?
OOTL. What's Monochrome? The word being so common and I presume its lifespan being so short I'm not getting any meaningful results when searching
Thanks. That looked sick. I never used it obviously but I can see why people are sad to see it go
damn, it was such a good website.
kinda unrelated but the linked author's website is really cool https://prigoana.com/
i took over monochrome on December 17th, 2025. at that time, monochrome was sent to hiatus by edideaur, but i loved monochrome and i was looking for a real, full-fledged app as i was still learning web development at the time.
me & the other devs have been extremely tired & burnt out from monochrome for months now.
well that escalated quickly.
to the people who have donated: your support to monochrome and us personally is so much more appreciated then you can ever imagine. you helped monochrome stay alive for when it needed expenses, and you helped us personally when we urgently needed the money (rent these days…). i genuinely hope you make your money back 100x, to anyone who donated
wat? how are donators supposed to make their money back? this sound super sketchy.
The second part - to me clearly sounds like the person is not a native speaker and just meant to say something along the lines of "hope you make x100 of what you were able to donate in the future", basically just wishing prosperity.
Looks like they're not going down after all?
Nevermind about the shutdown, we will be working on turning monochrome into a legal bring your own music app. we plan to support subsonic, local files, and the ability to bring accounts from other services. This will hopefully only take a week (though longer if needed). please stick with us during the time being.
Welp, now I know why MusicGrabber (a recent-addition vibe-coded single-track downloader) quit working. It relied pretty heavily on Monochrome.
It was fun while it lasted...
Dang monochrome was my favourite music streaming cite. Time to go back to fmhy.net ig.