Milan-based creative app studio Bending Spoons has laid off the entire staff of Filmic, which made popular video and photo editing apps like Filmic Pro, according to a report by Petapixel. Bending Spoons acquired Filmic last July and The move was announced in September.
In the past few days, several Filmic employees They posted about their departure on LinkedIn and X including CTO Christopher Cohen and COO Kevin Buonagurio. While Filmic founder and former CEO Neill Barham hasn’t posted anything about the development, his site has LinkedIn page He is suggested to have left the company in November 2023.
Bending Spoons did not immediately comment on the story. It’s not clear what the company wants to do with Filmic apps. Notably, the Italy-based company also has a video editor called Paste or collect.
When Apple released the iPhone 11 series, Filmic came out with the DoubleTake app that uses multiple cameras on the device simultaneously to capture footage.
Bending Spoons has a record of fixing up its properties after being acquired. When it acquired Filmic, the Italy-based company offered subscriptions instead of a one-time purchase price.
Last month, Bending Spoons-owned Evernote overhauled its free tier by limiting it to just 50 notes at a time. In February, the company also laid off 129 Evernote employees after acquiring the notes app last year.