The new 3.0 interface is horrible.

Like another reviewer said, "From perfect to not." I dislike the new interface so much that I deleted the new version and re-installed a copy of 2.2.1 that I fortunately had saved. So it only has 60,144 pro games in the database. So what? I can live without the extra 16,000+ games the new version has. For now at least. I suppose that I will upgrade at some point in the future, but for now Im sticking with 2.2.1.

For someone new to the app, I suppose the new interface looks just fine. However, having this new interface foisted upon us being used to the original was just too jarring. The old icons had lots of color in them, giving them a lively, appealing look. The game tree icon looked like a little tree. The book view icon looked like a little book. The old icons and interface had character to them. The new icons are all monochrome stick figures, and they give the app a somewhat antiseptic look. Too clean, too drab. Too much white. For example, the only way I can tell the function of the left arrow key is because its the left one of the pair, not because of its image. Ditto of course for the right one. I could go on, but I will stop here.

As much as I hate the new interface, the new version is still a 5-star app, and any go enthusiast should buy it, along with EasyGo too. The two apps complement each other nicely.

Update: I dont appreciate that the app is now for iOS 7.0 and above, because I am still on v6.1.3 and I plan to stay there because I despise the look and feel of iOS 7 (I shudder to think what iOS 8 will look like, if I can even run it on an iPad 2.) I may upgrade to iOS 7 at some point in the future, but I dont like that I would be required to do so in order to update my copy of SmartGo Kifu. When the app went to 3.0, it was still working on iOS 6. What could have changed that made the move to iOS 7 mandatory?

myshlev about SmartGo Kifu, v3.3