Themes, text size, and motion

Everything about how Joinue looks and feels sits under Appearance in Settings. Each choice applies straight away and syncs to your account, so it follows you to your other devices.

Theme

Joinue is dark by default and ships a shelf of themes: Light, Dark, Celestial and Contrast are there for everyone, plus a set of designed ones (Sunset, Nightlife, Icey, Bloom, Desert, Forest, Tropical, Darkroom, Nubia, Chrome, Gunmetal, Sci-fi HUD, Luxury, and Indy Bones, which is named after a dog and is the only one with a face). Every one of them is checked for readable contrast on every kind of text, so picking the one you like never costs you legibility.

Contrast is the one to reach for if you want the strongest separation between text and background.

Many themes have a backdrop that moves gently behind the app: Celestial's night sky with a drifting galaxy (it was called Legacy before), Desert's Tucson sky with saguaros and the sun where it really is, Nightlife's glows and mirror-ball flecks, Forest's pines and mist, and more. It holds still behind full-screen things like a photo or the map, quiets down on pages you read line by line, and stays still altogether with Reduce motion on.

Text size

Default, Large, or Extra large. It re-pitches the whole app rather than just zooming, so small text (captions, labels, timestamps) gains proportionally more than headlines and layouts stay intact.

Your device has a vote as well. If you've already set your phone to larger text, Joinue starts there without being asked, so the control can read Default while the app is plainly showing bigger type. That's working as intended, and in the app on an iPhone or Android phone a line under the control says so. Your pick here only ever goes further than your device, never smaller than it.

Reduce motion

Turns off page transitions, reveals and other animation across the app. If your phone or computer already has a system-wide reduce-motion setting, Joinue follows that on its own; this switch is for turning it on just here.

Haptics

The small taps you feel on a phone when something commits: an RSVP, a dice roll, a posted message. Turn them off and the app goes silent to the touch without changing anything else.