The 2026 Shutdown List: Software That Stopped, And What The Vendors Actually Said

The closures that made news

Sora, OpenAI

The largest consumer AI shutdown of the year, and a two-stage one. The Sora web and app experiences were discontinued on 26 April 2026. The Sora API follows on 24 September 2026.

Reporting on the decision points to straightforward economics: operating costs of roughly $1 million a day against total revenue of about $2.1 million, alongside falling active users, copyright and deepfake difficulties, and a collapsed distribution deal. OpenAI has indicated it may say more about a possible licensed version later, but as of mid-2026 there is no active Sora product.

If you have content in Sora, the export window is the point: videos and images can be pulled from the Sora library, and the API date in September is the hard stop.

Modo, Foundry

Foundry's own product page carries the announcement that development of Modo is winding down after version 17.1, with no further releases and the forums closed in December 2024. Seventeen years of a widely respected 3D modelling and rendering tool, ended on the vendor's own page rather than by press release.

This one is worth dwelling on as a matter of record-keeping. Modo remains listed in our catalogue as a product, with its ending documented, rather than being quietly removed. A buyer researching 3D tools needs to find Modo and learn that it has stopped, which deleting the entry would prevent.

Teams live events, Microsoft

Retired on 30 June 2026, with support for pre-existing events continuing until 28 February 2027. The second date matters more than the first for anyone with scheduled events already in the system, and it is routinely omitted from coverage.

GameSparks, AWS

AWS states on its own migration page that access to the GameSparks console will no longer be available. A clean vendor statement of the kind that makes a shutdown a fact rather than an inference.

The quiet endings, found by checking

These did not make news. They were found by reading vendors' own pages while rechecking the catalogue, and each carries a vendor statement.

• Stoll. The company's own site states that its flat knitting machine business is discontinued and the Reutlingen production site closed on 31 October 2025, leaving spare parts and existing software licence keys. An industrial software line ended in a sentence on a corporate site.
• Instagram third-party AR tooling. Meta published its own notice ending third-party Spark AR tooling, which retires an entire creator ecosystem rather than a single application.
• PlanGrid. Autodesk states plainly on its own page that it is no longer available for purchase by net new customers. Not a shutdown, and precisely the kind of fact a buyer researching construction software needs before shortlisting it.
• Stitch Labs. Square published an explicit sunset statement, recorded on that basis.
• Kindful. kindful.com now reads that Kindful is a Bloomerang product. That is a vendor statement of absorption, so it is recorded as one.

Renames that are not endings

A large share of what looks like death is rebranding, and the distinction is not pedantic: recording a live product as retired is a false claim in front of a buyer. Confirmed renames found this year include Cropio to Cropwise Operations, FarmLogs into Bushel, Proagrica to TELUS Agriculture, NeonCRM to Neon One, Network for Good into Bonterra, IQMS to DELMIAWorks, NetSuite OpenAir to SuiteProjects Pro, OwnBackup to Own, Micro Focus Data Protector to OpenText, MineRP into Epiroc, NGC Software into Logility, HiMama to Lillio, Userlike to Lime Connect, RFP360 to Responsive, ChannelAdvisor to Rithum, and Envision to EnvisionNow.

Every one of those would look like a dead link to an automated check, and every one is a product still being sold.

The products that are obviously gone and cannot be reported as gone

This is the awkward category, and the reason it exists is a rule we hold to: a wind-down is only recorded where the vendor says so in its own words.

Several products are, to any reasonable eye, finished. They are not on the list above.

• Vroom. vroom.com returns 404 on its own about and FAQ pages with a 2024 copyright in the footer. Reporting indicates the company exited used-car retail in January 2024 to become an auto finance business. The site says none of this.
• Mozilla Hubs. Redirects to a Mozilla end-of-support article, which itself fails to load. The redirect target's URL names the shutdown; the page cannot be read to quote it.
• Humu. Now redirects to a domain broker, consistent with a known shutdown, and stated by nobody.
• CrowdTangle. The domain times out and the vendor help page 404s.
• Farmers Edge, FarmWorks, Protean ERP, MinePlan. Domains that no longer resolve, or that now serve hosting placeholders.

The temptation is to write "shut down" next to each, because they clearly have. The reason not to is that the same reasoning, applied slightly less carefully, produces false obituaries for products that merely moved domain, and we have found sixteen renames this year that would have failed exactly that test.

A domain going dark is strong evidence and it is not a statement. These are recorded as unreachable, with the specific reason, and flagged for a human to resolve.

A warning about expired domains

One finding from this year's checking deserves separate mention, because it affects anyone auditing their own software inventory with automated tooling.

Expired domains do not go blank. They get bought.

• precisionhawk.com now serves an online gambling site.
• linkmink.com sends its pricing path to a lottery-style site.
• familyalbum.com presents a TLS certificate belonging to an unrelated application.
• winnieapp.com redirects to a UK driving-safety company.
• wally.me serves content about a defunct Bitcoin wallet rather than the budgeting app.
• ladder.com resolves to a stock-discussion platform.
• rosyapp.com serves an unrelated childcare site.

If you maintain a vendor register or a bookmark list of tools your organisation uses, an entry pointing at a lapsed domain is not a dead link. It is a live site controlled by someone else, and in several of these cases the content is one your security team would rather not have staff clicking through to from an internal document.

Worth a pass over your own list.

How to tell a real ending from a redirect

The rules below are the ones we apply, and they are useful to anyone assessing whether a tool they rely on is finished.

1. Only the vendor's own words count. A press report of a shutdown is a starting point. The vendor's notice is the evidence.
2. A redirect is a rename until proven otherwise. If the destination page names the original product, as kindful.com does with Bloomerang, that is absorption. If it is a bare redirect to an acquirer's homepage, it establishes nothing.
3. Look for the second date. Retirement announcements frequently carry two: the day new use stops and the day existing use stops. Teams live events retired on 30 June 2026 but supports pre-existing events to 28 February 2027.
4. "No longer available to new customers" is not "shut down". PlanGrid is the example. Existing customers continue; the product is closed to new ones. Very different implications depending on which you are.
5. Check what the domain is serving now. Before concluding anything from a page, confirm the page belongs to the vendor.
6. Export at the announcement, not the deadline. Export tooling and the people who understand it degrade in the run-up to a shutdown. The earliest date is the safest one.

Questions people ask

When exactly does Sora shut down?

In two stages. The Sora web and app experiences were discontinued on 26 April 2026. The Sora API is discontinued on 24 September 2026. Content should be exported from the Sora library before the relevant cutoff.

Is Foundry Modo still usable?

Existing installations continue to run. What Foundry announced is the end of development after version 17.1, with no further releases, and the forums closed in December 2024. It is a product with a documented ending rather than a switched-off service, which for a locally installed tool is a meaningful difference.

How can I tell whether a product has shut down or just been renamed?

Follow the redirect and read the destination. If it names the original product, as kindful.com does in stating that Kindful is a Bloomerang product, it is absorption. If it is a bare redirect to an acquirer’s homepage with no mention of the original, it establishes nothing at all. Sixteen products we checked this year turned out to be renames that a naive check would have called dead.

Why are some obviously dead products not on your shutdown list?

Because we only record a wind-down where the vendor states it. Vroom’s site 404s throughout and Mozilla Hubs redirects to an unloadable end-of-support page. Both look finished. Neither says so in a form we can quote, so both are recorded as unreachable with the reason, and flagged for a person rather than published as fact.

What should I do when a tool I use announces it is closing?

Export immediately rather than at the deadline, since export tooling and the staff who understand it degrade as a shutdown approaches. Check for a second date covering existing users, which is often much later than the headline one. Then trial one alternative with your real data before committing.

Sources

Every price, limit and date above was checked against these pages on the day shown. Where a figure has since moved, the vendor’s own page is the authority and this one is a snapshot.

1. 1What to know about the Sora discontinuation · OpenAIThe vendor’s own notice covering both discontinuation stages and the export guidance.Checked 19 August 2026
2. 2OpenAI sets two-stage Sora shutdown with app closing April 2026 and API following in September · The DecoderSource for the 26 April and 24 September 2026 dates and the reported operating economics.Checked 19 August 2026
3. 3Teams live events retirement · MicrosoftRetirement on 30 June 2026 with support for pre-existing events to 28 February 2027.Checked 19 August 2026
4. 4Modo · FoundryProduct page carrying the wind-down notice after version 17.1 and the December 2024 forum closure.Checked 19 August 2026
5. 5Amazon GameSparks migration · AWSStates that access to the GameSparks console will no longer be available.Checked 19 August 2026
6. 6PlanGrid · AutodeskStates the product is no longer available for purchase by net new customers.Checked 19 August 2026