update: thankfully the developer responded to our feedback and brought the features back! This was by far the best transit app for uiuc, but my phone automatically updated it last night and it got rid of everything that made it good. Now the screens are very cluttered, the bus routes don’t show the stops, they don’t show your location, and there’s no manual refresh. Please roll back this update :(

The new version does indeed give a cleaner look. Yet, it removed some of the critical functionalities that made this my preferred app compared to the official app Transit. Top of which are the refreshes. You used to be able to swipe down to refresh the page in the stop view, with visual cues when the refreshing is done. So is the case in the individual bus location page with the visible refresh button. All of that is gone now, and I have no way of knowing whether the data is the most current.The current map is also not zoomed into the actual bus location, and instead shows the full route. For long routes like 1 or 6, you cannot tell immediately where the bus is, and you need to zoom in manually to the bus location. It’s just… from my point of view, unnecessary, compared to what was the case. Click the route, map zooms in to exactly where the bus is, done.I just think the previous version, even though the UI may not be the most up to date, it’s still the better version compared to the new.

Loved this app but new update is terrible. It doesn’t show you the location of the stops anymore or give you the option to easily refresh the bus location. The timing of the bus location also seems to be much less accurate. Also the map just looks way too busy now, it shows too much information like all I need is the street names and where my stop is I don’t need to know all of this extra nonsense clogging up the page.

The app has a great concept, but falls short on execution. I’ve found that clicking on a stop from the “All Stops” map view often returns a wildly incorrect stop. For example, I was trying to click on the stop at Lincoln & Illinois, but it returned a stop in NE Urbana north of I-74 (and WAY outside the current view on the map). The app also crashes ~90% of the time when going into the “bus tracking” map view.