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Settings and personalization1 min readUpdated October 6, 2026

Change the appearance and accent color

Light, dark or follow the system, plus seventeen accent colors to make it yours.

Everything about how the app looks sits together in Settings under Appearance, on both platforms: appearance, themes, accent color and text size. Appearance, the accent and the text size are there on every plan; the themes are part of the Pro and Lifetime plans.

Appearance

Light, Dark, or System, which follows your device and flips automatically when it does. Notes, dialogs and the drawing canvas all follow along, so a note written at night reads fine in the morning. The theme picks next to it choose which theme paints the app in each mode, on Pro and Lifetime: the Light theme and Dark theme grids on desktop, the Themes row on mobile.

Step by stepOn desktop
1Open Settings and go to Appearance.
2Open Appearance and pick Light, Dark or System.
Step by stepOn mobile
1Open Settings and tap Appearance.
2Tap Appearance at the top.
3Pick Light, Dark or System.
4The whole app follows, here in Dark.

Accent color

Seventeen options: Amber, Red, Orange, Yellow, Lime, Green, Emerald, Teal, Cyan, Sky, Blue, Indigo, Violet, Purple, Fuchsia, Pink and Rose. The accent shows up in buttons, selections and highlights across the app, mini apps included, on top of whichever theme you use.

Step by stepOn desktop
1Open Accent color and pick one of the seventeen.
2The accent shows up across the app, on top of your theme.
Step by stepOn mobile
1On the Appearance page, tap Accent color.
2Pick one of the seventeen colors.
3Ticked boxes, tags and selections wear the new color across the app.

What follows you

Appearance, the accent and your theme picks all sync with the rest of your settings, so switching your phone to dark switches your desktop too, and the two agree on how Grape looks without setting it twice. Text size is the one that stays per device, since a phone and a desk monitor want different sizes.

Did this not help? Contact us with the version you are on and what you were trying to do.

Try It While the Guide Is Open

Grape is free to install and needs no account, so you can follow along in the real app.