Change how the app looks

A Look sets the palette, the layouts and the launch animation together, chosen to agree with each other. Everything it decides stays adjustable on its own afterwards.

What it does

A Look is one pick that sets the whole app — the palette, the details page, the sidebar, the launch animation and the text brightness — chosen to agree with each other. Underneath it, every one of those pieces is still its own row, so you can take a Look and then disagree with exactly one thing about it.

Steps

1. Open Settings and choose Appearance.
2. Tap the large tile at the top. It names the Look you are on.
3. Pick one of the seven. It applies live — nothing needs a restart.
4. Change any single row underneath if you want to. The tile then reads Custom.

The seven Looks

• Debrify Classic — the app as it looked up to 0.7.0, before any of this existed.
• Spotlight — the tvOS idiom: full-bleed art, borderless focus that lifts and tilts, and a details page that dissolves into colour.
• Midnight Signal — dark glass and one gold, taken app-wide.
• Console — squared, monospaced, technical. Everything reads as an instrument.
• Cinema — widescreen and unhurried: grain, deep grounds, room to breathe.
• Neon Arcade — saturated, rounded and loud. The one that looks like a game.
• Quiet Hours — low-contrast and calm, for a dark room and a late episode.

The rows underneath

Appearance groups its rows by the question each one answers.

• Presets › Advanced — the individual design tokens a Look is built from.
• Theme › Text Brightness — Bright (pure white), Soft (easier on OLED panels), Dim (grey, for dark rooms).
• Theme › Launch Animation — the ident that plays on start. Its own page also holds Match the app theme, which colours the ident with your Look's accent.
• Screen layouts › Details Page — how a movie or series page is built.
• Screen layouts › Debrify TV, IPTV Appearance, Player Guide — the channel screen, the live-TV cockpit, and the channel banner shown inside the player.
• Screen layouts › Play Loader — what you look at between pressing Play and the picture starting.
• Screen layouts › Player Controls — the playback dock's style, palette and size.
• Screen layouts › Parents Guide — how content advisories are presented.
• Screen layouts › Profile Picker — the “who's watching” screen.

On a TV, Home Layout, Discover Layout and Sidebar Style are in this same list. On a phone or desktop they live under Home & Display instead, alongside Navigation.

Advanced: the tokens underneath

Under Presets › Advanced are the raw knobs every Look is assembled from. Change one and it overrides the Look for that knob only.

• Colour — the accent, the focus cursor, progress marks and callouts.
• Ground — the background behind everything, and the text on top of it.
• Shape — how round cards and buttons are. Zero squares everything.
• Type — the faces titles and body text are set in.
• Focus — how the cursor shows itself: an outline, growth, a lift, an inversion, a flood of colour, or a tvOS-style tilt.
• Motion — the tempo everything moves at, how new content arrives, and what happens when you stop touching it.
• Surfaces — whether panels are told apart by space, hairlines, glass or solid fills, and the scrim behind text on artwork.
• Artwork — how posters are framed and graded.

Reset appearance overrides, at the bottom of that page, returns all of the tokens — or just one section of them — to whatever the active Look says.

Display settings on a TV

Android TV adds a Display group. These are about the panel rather than the styling.

• Screen Size — lays the interface out at a percentage of the panel's own density. Smaller fits more on screen.
• Rendering — draws the interface at full resolution or at a smaller buffer the TV scales back up. If menus stutter or scroll unevenly, try this one.
• Hero Artwork Quality — how large home-screen artwork is decoded. Lower it on a memory-tight box. This row appears on Apple TV too.

Good to know

• Appearance is per profile. Two people on the same TV can run completely different looks.
• Creating a profile offers to start it from your settings — it copies your appearance and playback defaults once, then goes its own way.
• Custom is not an error. It only means you are no longer on a shipped bundle; picking a Look again puts every piece back.
• Not every row is on every device. The list is trimmed to what the device in front of you can actually do.
• Your choices travel with backups and phone-to-TV transfers.