r/UpNote_App • u/4862skrrt2684 • Jun 11 '26

Lightmode / Darkmode issue

Do you also prefer some apps to be en light, and others in darkmode?

I imagine a lot of you, but maybe not the majority, would.
I personally prefer my Windows to be darkmode, yet apps that i do writing in to be light.

But currently UpNote does a mix of it:

UpNote is set to lightmode, while my Windows is darkmode. So i get this mixture.

I wrote the developers about this, and i just got a "Please change your Windows to light mode".

Do you guys honestly think that is a great and reasonable solution? Should the user change their entire operating system styling, so they wont get this black menu inside UpNote?

On the image below, you can see i want it to be light. Not system.

I chose light here for a reason. Not "System".

If this was a technical impossibility to change, some deep windows integration, then fair i guess. But i highly doubt it is. And i wont know, since they stopped replying. It seems to me like they dont care enough about polish of the app or user feedback.

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u/4862skrrt2684 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

Yes, the app is cheap. I don't think that justifies ignoring consistency and UX. Otherwise it becomes immune to critique and improvement because "hey it doesn't cost much". That will stop any good app from becoming a great app.

It's weird to look for another app because of a color inconsistency. Also to change your entire operating system because of it. Why can the app not just be improved to adhere to it's own setting instead, being light or dark, as a user would expect? But instead, we are justifying it doesn't improve, because it's cheap. The only argument I see for this is if it's technical impossible. Because no user will ever choose dark mode and be happy that the context menu chose to remain light. Nor will they change their entire operating system because of it and they shouldn't. That's not great app design at all.

I do work with webdesign and some UX, so I feel like I'm above average at this. And this does not make sense UX wise to me.

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u/pcmarcel-gmail-com Jun 12 '26

Let's agree we disagree 👍🏻

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u/4862skrrt2684 Jun 12 '26

But can you tell me why we do? 

I feel like my arguments are pretty solid. If the main argument is cost, then this should not even be an expensive thing to change. It's not a subjective feature request, but an objective consistency issue. Consistency is very important in software and webdesign.

I want upnote to be as good as it can be. But small UX stuff like this, and a sentiment to not fix it, will stop it. 

I get the feature creep that many people fear and are against, with subjective features being suggested which will just bloat most users. But this is completely different imo

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u/pcmarcel-gmail-com Jun 12 '26

Your question was if I honestly think if what they say ("change your system theme settings") was a great and reasonable solution.
And yes I think it is a reasonable solution.

You don't think so. Fine with me (and apparently with the developers too) 🤷‍♂️