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Themes and appearance

Three theme styles, each with a light and dark mode. Together they form six looks tellmint can wear.

Where to find it

Settings → Appearance.

Theme styles

  • Tellmint (default): mint green primary with an amber accent. Modern and product-y.
  • Warm Paper: warm beiges and browns. Softer, journal-like feel. Often chosen for reading-heavy moods.
  • Monochrome: clean high-contrast neutrals with a single teal accent. Minimal and accessibility-forward.

Each style respects your light/dark preference independently, you can, for example, use Warm Paper in dark mode or Monochrome in light mode.

Light / Dark / System

A visual card picker lets you choose:

  • Light: always light.
  • Dark: always dark.
  • System (default), follows your phone's theme automatically.

How changes apply

  • Theme changes apply instantly. The UI updates locally before the cloud acknowledges the change.
  • If a save fails for any reason, the app gently reverts.

Vibration feedback

Vibration feedback now lives under Settings -> More settings -> Vibration, just below Personalization. (It used to sit near the top of Settings; it moved here in May 2026 because it's a set-and-forget control most people only touch once.)

  • Vibration feedback is on by default. Buttons, recording actions, and newly saved entries vibrate gently.
  • Test vibration lets you check whether the app can trigger vibration on your phone.
  • On Android, Phone vibration opens the closest system screen, usually Sound & vibration, because phone makers do not expose one universal deep link to the exact toggle.

If Test vibration does nothing, check your phone's own setting. On Xiaomi/POCO/HyperOS phones it is sometimes still labelled Haptic feedback at the system level (Settings -> Sound & vibration -> Haptic feedback), even though Tellmint now calls it Vibration to match how most people talk about it.

Other appearance controls (Advanced)

Under Settings → Advanced → Appearance:

  • First day of week: Monday by default. The setting exists in this section but the calendar view is currently hard-coded to start on Monday regardless.

Good to know

  • Font consistency. Every theme uses the same typographic system, only color, accent, and surface treatments change. No theme changes the text size or spacing.
  • Pattern Sky has its own fixed look: the sky uses a dedicated dark palette in every theme, not the active app theme.
  • PDF export themes are separate. When you export a Mint Edition, you pick a PDF theme independently of your in-app theme.

Plan & limits

No plan gating.

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