Themes

9 built-in presets, each with light and dark variants, plus the themes people in your home make. Tap one in Settings > Theme to use it. Switching is instant.

Free vs Pro

	Free	Pro
All 9 presets	Yes	Yes
Light / dark mode	Yes	Yes
Applying custom themes already on your Dash	Yes	Yes
Creator studio: make and edit themes, custom backgrounds		Yes

Presets and switching between themes are free for everyone. Custom themes themselves are free to use: if one is already on your Dash, anyone can apply it, and it keeps working if Pro lapses. Making or editing one in the creator studio requires Pro. Pro belongs to the home, so everyone in a Pro home can make themes.

Presets

Preset	Look	Material
Midnight Glass	A glass house above an infinity pool, morning by day, blue hour at night; the default	Glass
Monochrome Pro	A grey block city in low sunlight, windows lit at night; the strongest text contrast	Paper
Tide	Woodblock-print waves, indigo on rice paper	Paper
Forest Zen	A misty pine forest, sun rays by day, moonbeams at night	Glass
Liquid Glass	Folds of clear glass with cyan and pink rim light, pale by day, dark by night	Glass
Sunrise Studio	A stacked-paper sunrise between studio arches, a crescent moon at night	Paper
Lavender Dreams	Pen-drawn lavender on cream, on plum at night	Ink
Chalkboard	Chalk doodles on a slate board	Chalk
Retrowave	A neon sunset grid	Neon

Lavender Dreams dark theme — Lavender Dreams dark variant with custom background and overlay

Light, dark, or by the sun

Settings, General, Dark mode. Off and On stay put. Sunset to sunrise goes dark at sunset and light at sunrise, using the sun times Home Assistant already knows for your home. Custom times goes dark between the two times you pick.

Settings, General: the Dark mode switch with Off, On and Auto — Dark mode sits under Settings, General.

Creator studio (Pro)

Settings > Theme > New theme opens the studio. Edit opens one you made, Duplicate starts from any preset or from someone else’s.

The studio opens as a panel beside your dashboard, at the bottom on a phone, and your whole home wears the theme as you change it: cards, widgets, dock and background. The sun and moon at the top flip between light and dark to check both; your home’s own dark mode setting stays as it was. On a phone, drag the handle down to see the whole screen.

The creator studio open beside the dashboard, on its Start tab — The studio beside your dashboard. The whole home wears the theme as you change it.

Four tabs:

Start. Pick any built-in theme to begin from, From your photo to upload a picture that becomes the background and sets the colors, or From a color.
Background. Tap a picture, or Upload a picture (uploading is an admin job). Different at night gives dark mode its own picture; flip to the moon at the top to pick it. Look sets how the picture sits behind the cards: Clear, Soft, Dim or Moody. Custom opens the three sliders: Visibility fades the picture toward the theme’s background color, Softness blurs it, Vignette darkens its corners. Geometric Houses pops in when you open the app, then holds still. Abstract Pattern moves for half a minute after you open the app or touch the screen, then holds still.
Colors. The Accent for buttons, switches and whatever is on, from the swatches or any color. Glass tint colors the glass of every card: Auto takes it from your picture, Cool, Neutral and Warm set it yourself; each shows a card over your background. Corners from Square to Round. Take colors from the picture picks an accent and a tint from a photo. Fine-tune every color lists all twelve colors for light and dark: each says Automatic until you change it, then Yours; tap it to send it back.
Material. What every card, sheet and control is made of, each shown as a small lamp widget made of it. Glass is the clear glass you know, Frosted adds a fine frost to it, Paper is opaque matte stock with a cut edge, Neon is smoky glass lit from inside in its own color, Chalk draws every card in chalk on a matte board. A row of switches, sliders and buttons under them wears the material as you tune it. Advanced opens everything a material is made of: the glass (blur, clarity, tint, vibrancy), the light (edge, sheen, shadow, inset, where the light comes from, the rim, how much of it shows in dark mode), effects (glow and where it sits, inner glow, grain, ink), the surface (flat or raised, relief, the tint wash) and the colour (the theme’s accent or the material’s own, and a fill for widgets that have no color of their own). Reset puts the material back the way it came. Share puts the material on glasshome.app for other homes (see Sharing). Save file keeps the material alone as a small .glasshome-material.json file, and Open file reads one, or takes the material out of a theme file.

If text would be hard to read, the Colors tab says so, and Fine-tune offers Fix it. Undo and redo sit at the top; Start over is in the menu under the theme’s name, with Rename, Export and Delete.

Save and use saves the theme and switches to it: for you, or for the whole home when an admin has This home selected in General. Save without using, in the name menu, only puts it on your home’s shelf. Nothing reaches other screens until you save, and Cancel puts your home back as it was.

What the material settings do

Setting	What it changes
Blur	How much the picture behind a card is blurred.
Clarity	How much of the card is solid color; low lets the picture through.
Tint	How strongly a card takes the color of what it shows, like a lit lamp’s warm glow.
Vibrancy	How rich and bright the blurred picture looks through the glass.
Edge	The bright line around each card.
Sheen	The soft light sweeping across a card.
Shadow	How far cards seem to float above the picture.
Inset	How thick the glass looks: a soft shade inside the edge.
Light from	Where the light comes from; turns the sheen, edge and inset together.
Rim	The bright line on top only, top and bottom, or all the way around.
Dark mode	How much of that light stays in dark mode. Lower is calmer at night.
Glow, Glow sits	A glow in the card’s own color, around the card or inside its edge.
Inner glow	Light falling into the card from the top; its color goes from white to the card’s own.
Grain	A fine frost over each card.
Ink	Draws every card by hand, like a pen sketch.
Face, Relief	Flat glass, or raised: buttons stand out and switches sink in, by as much as Relief says.
Tint wash, Wash angle	The tint as one flat color, fading across the card, or in two tones, and which way it runs.
Accent	The theme’s accent, or the material’s own color for what is on and what glows.
Fill	A wash of the accent on widgets that have no color of their own.

Export, in the menu under the theme’s name, saves the theme as a small .glasshome-theme.json file, or opens the share sheet on a phone. Import next to New theme opens such a file in the studio, so you see it before it joins your shelf. Built-in backgrounds travel by name; an image you uploaded stays home, and the exported theme carries a plain background instead (for dark mode, the light one).

Who can change a theme

A theme belongs to whoever made it. They and the home’s admins can edit or delete it; everyone can use it. Right-click or long-press a tile to use, edit or delete it from the shelf; each tile shows both its light and dark side and how many screens use it. Deleting one sends anyone using it back to the home’s theme. Uploading a new background image is an admin job; everyone can pick from the images already there. A home keeps up to 50 themes.