Once great app that is now outdated

I bought this app several years ago when the iPad 2 first came out. Back then I would have easily given it five stars but since then the team seems to have stopped updating it. The last major update was version 2, which introduced their tab store, and added updates for the iPhone 4s and iPad 2. The 4s?! That was released in 2011! At least the app still works in the newest iOS versions, but they havent even updated it to look like it was made recently. Opening up the keyboard or browser still shows the old iOS style, not the flatter look of iOS 7.

They havent even updated the iPhone version for the bigger screen of the 6, and thats been out for over a year.

The browser is incredibly slow with ultimate guitar. Not sure if there was some behind the scenes war going on between the two companies over tab access, but it was pretty much unusable until I found out that you could browse the site in regular Safari and just open the tabs in tabtoolkit directly.

Basically, the software works, it just feels dated. I still use it a lot but I havent really come across any better alternatives.

They could also work on the presentation of the tabs to make them more legible. Id like to be able to have the show fretboard/keyboard display a system wide option instead of having to turn it off every time I look at an individual tab. Sometimes I just want to see as much of the music as possible and the extra lines would be helpful. Its also getting difficult to see some of the annotations while Im playing along. For example the string bend marks are way too small and I dont know why they decided to display them above the staff when all the notations for hammer ons, pull offs, slides, etc are displayed on the fret numbers. It Im playing along with a song, put all the notation where Im looking, not in multiple places.

JashN about TabToolkit, v2.0.7