I prefer the new design personally. Might be imagining things, but I feel like it's been less buggy/felt easier to use too.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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This is an app i use probably 2 minutes a month. The efficiency of the layout is so not important
Looks more complete alongside the rest of my apps which mostly use the same theme.
It needs to be fixed. I was literally looking at it last night thinking WTF the top 25% of my screen is being wasted. There's nothing in it. Also clicked the update/install button assuming it would save me needing to manually press update on every app. It wanted to install a bunch of deleted apps that are still in the list. Sure they could improve the visuals and feel but this isn't it.
i like the new design. looks nicer
Oh, it's an open source tool, that I really enjoy. If they change some optical blobs, idc.
Is it similar to ObtainX? I've been using that for the past few weeks as a replacement and have really liked it.
Somewhat but also not. I tried ObtainX when obtainium was still using the old UI and I got along fine on obtainx. Obtainx does use more of the expressive material design language but it makes sense to me
But somehow when obtainium changed to this new UI I just can't get my head around it. So weird.
I don't know as I've never used ObtainX, but from screenshots I saw its F-Droid page, it looks similar. I wished they kept the previous UI or at least an option to switch back.
I don't hate the new aesthetics! I too preferred the previous design, but this is fine too.
With that said, to illustrate how grateful I am to ImranR98, I'll add this: I'd be using this app of his even if it looked like an old plain text document. 😁
Change for the sake of change. The new ui seems like a waste of time.
Source for that claim? My understanding is that the changes were for usability purposes.
Thats an opinion, not a claim.
It's also just your opinion that the change was for the sake of it.
Yes an opinion based on nothing but my feels.
the small progress bar makes no sense. either use a piechart next the name, or use the full width with a big progress bar under every app.
I have never really understood it - no matter which version. I just guess and tap somewhere, and then usually I succeed after a while.