Google Labs confirmed that Mixboard, the prompt-driven, Pinterest-style AI concepting board it launched in September 2025, goes offline on September 28, 2026. Boards, generated images, and prompts will be deleted — download anything you want to keep before then.
2026-09-02 · by Moe Ameen
Google is retiring Mixboard, the experimental AI concepting board from Google Labs, on September 28, 2026. The shutdown is confirmed on Google's own Labs support pages: after that date the site goes offline, previously shared board links stop working and show a shutdown notice, and all user data — boards, AI-generated images, uploaded assets, and prompt history — is permanently deleted from Google's servers. If you have work in Mixboard you want to keep, you need to download it (boards export as PNG or as a presentation) before the cutoff.
Mixboard was Google's take on a prompt-driven, Pinterest-style creative workspace. Instead of pinning images that already exist, you started a board from a text prompt or a pre-populated template and Mixboard generated roughly fifteen image blocks to react to. You could then mix in your own uploads (from device, Google Drive, or Google Photos), add AI-generated text blocks, and refine everything with natural-language edits — "combine these," "make it warmer," plus one-click "regenerate" and "more like this" variations. The image generation and editing ran on Nano Banana, Google's Gemini image model.
Its life was short. Mixboard launched as a U.S.-only public beta in Google Labs in late September 2025, then expanded to more than 180 countries on October 30, 2025. As a Labs experiment it never left beta, and it is being sunset about a year after it shipped — a reminder that Labs products are exploratory by design and can be pulled with a fixed deletion deadline. Google has not detailed a direct successor; its Nano Banana image editing continues to live inside the Gemini app and other surfaces. Treat any specific export step as subject to change and confirm the current instructions on Google's Mixboard support page before the shutdown date.
The Mixboard shutdown is a deadline dressed up as news: whatever visual direction you developed there vanishes on September 28, 2026. The useful reframe is that a mood board was never the finished thing anyway — it was the sketch. [Kompozy](/) is where a sketch becomes a published week of content, and, unlike a Labs beta, it does not delete your library on a set date. Generated media in Kompozy is persisted to durable storage you own, not a temporary canvas.
Here is the migration in practice. Download your Mixboard boards and the reference images that captured the look you liked, then bring those references into Kompozy. Feed a chosen concept image in as a brand reference and Kompozy produces the finished formats Mixboard never could: [Persona Photos](/glossary/persona-shorts) and face-locked avatar images in that style, a brand-exact [Carousel](/glossary/hyperframes) through HyperFrames, quote cards, a blog article, and a matching newsletter — every piece governed by one [Persona Brief](/glossary/persona-brief) so the batch reads as one creator. Then [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot) schedules and publishes the set across the eight social platforms plus blog and email behind a per-post review. The shutdown itself is also a post: drop the facts into Kompozy and it fans one take into a news explainer, a comparison carousel, and platform-native text posts while the story is still fresh. Mixboard helped you decide what it should look like; Kompozy makes it, keeps it, and ships it.
Google is shutting down Mixboard on September 28, 2026. After that date the website goes offline, previously shared board links stop working, and all boards, AI-generated images, uploaded assets, and prompt history are permanently deleted from Google's servers. Download anything you want to keep before the cutoff.
Mixboard was an experimental, prompt-driven AI concepting board from Google Labs — a Pinterest-style workspace where you started from a text prompt or template, generated about fifteen image blocks, mixed in your own uploads and AI text blocks, and refined everything with natural-language edits. Its image generation and editing ran on Nano Banana, Google's Gemini image model.
They are deleted. After September 28, 2026, boards, generated images, uploaded assets, and prompts are permanently removed and shared board URLs display a shutdown notice. To preserve your work, download your boards as PNG or export them as a presentation before the date — confirm the current steps on Google's Mixboard support page.
Mixboard was an ideation tool, not a publisher — it never turned a board into a captioned video, a branded carousel, or a scheduled post. A content engine like Kompozy takes a concept or reference image and generates finished formats (persona/avatar video, carousels, quote cards, blogs, newsletters), holds them to one brand voice, stores them durably, and schedules and publishes across nine destinations.