Miro is fantastic on a massive screen. It’s like you can see, arrange and rearrange your mind in 2d. The bright background and colours work well for feeling energised, fresh, and productive early in the day. For those of us who get more done during the night, however, the brightness can feel glaring and have the opposite effect, causing fatigue, especially with extended use.
It feels like a godsend to night-owls that the software industry is finally recognising our needs with dark mode being added to everything. While the implementation would understandably be no small task, I, for one, would greatly benefit from dark mode being added to what has become a fantastic tool in my work and lifestyle.
Thank you for Miro, and the Wishlist, Walter
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Hi all, just ended up here after looking for information on Miro Dark mode. Very unfortunate that this is still not supported.
Anyone know if Miro have communicated a timeline on this at all?
We are evaluating ClickUp and as far as I am aware they have a dark mode (although not sure if it applies to their whiteboards feature too)
Be good to know if Miro are planning to introduce this before we complete our evaluation of ClickUp.
We love Miro, but Clickup looks cheaper with way more features. To stick with Miro we’ll likely need to see that Dark mode is at least “coming”
Thanks Miro team and community.
I am struggling right now with this feature that doesn’t exist.
Dear Miro. This feature request is more than THREE years old. Nearly 2000 users have upvoted on this and it is the MOST upvoted feature request overall. And it seems that this is not even being looked into. This is Microsoftesque lagging, IMO.
Are you even considering to deliver this feature in a foreseeable future?
It is surely not trivial since boards need to be equally readable in both modes and colors may look very differently in both modes. So creating a board in dark mode must produce an equally readable board in light mode and vice versa.
Would it work for starters if the board creator can just “lock” a board to dark or light mode? You can then later figure out all the necessary color mappings and features where editors can lock single colors.
Overall, as you can see, this feature is dearly missed and esp. for night owls and IT folks (like me) it’s hardly comprehensible that there is such an expensive tool with such a large user base that does not offer a dark mode.
Well - and I cannot edit my own post? Even before anyone has posted another comment?
So edit:
The option to change the board’s background color does not do the trick since all black text that is not inside some form with a defined background color becomes invisible.
IF you could combine the change of the background color with a check where black text appears outside forms or within forms with no background color set AND apply a color mapping then I think we’re almost there. Repainting the menus is trivial.
Guys, we definitely need dark mode! Please add it ASAP.
oh no… 3 years and still no dark mode… I have a vision impairments which makes looking at bright white screens nearly impossible. I use a Chrome extension, darkreader.org to bypass apps where the development of a dark mode is not prioritized by the product team. Its a shame it’s not a prioriry for Miro.
Well at least I can set a background colour. Better than nothing I guess.
Would be nice for navigating through on the “Boards” tab to have that dark as well.
Still waiting on dark mode to get rid of the bright white toolbars etc
3 years and waiting
I'll be trying to work with the Dark Reader plugin for a while, then I'll part ways with miro for good.
Hi everyone! We hear you and appreciate you continuing to upvote this Wish List item for our team.
Below are a few ways to that have helped other users navigate Miro on a darker screen, and that are available now:
@ElvaMiro I think you’re missing the point entirely and the affect of dark mode. Dark Mode is not about the background. It’s about the entire interface. The toolbars, the menus, the whole UI becoming the background feature and what you’re working on becoming the hero.
It also significantly reduces eyestrain, especially for people with astigmatism. It decreases blue light exposure. It can lower or eliminate screen flicker, therefore increasing focus. It saves power in OLED monitors because less diodes need to be lit lit.
Not having dark mode is a glaring oversight. it’s the overwhelming user preference;
A significant majority of individuals, exceeding 80%, opt to utilise dark mode on their electronic devices.
An overwhelming majority, ranging from 91% to 95% of device users, express a preference for dark mode over light mode.
Approximately 70% of software engineers worldwide prefer coding in dark mode due to its perceived advantages for prolonged periods of work.
People with astigmatism (approximately 50% of the population) find it easier to read black text on white than white text on black.
64.6% of users want websites to switch to dark mode automatically.
82.7% of respondents to a survey stated they use the dark mode on their operating system
It’s not about changing a background.
I agree with all the above and want to add a note about neurodiversity. White screens can cause sensory overwhelm for many neurodivergents; dark mode offers relief for some in that area. From experience when dark mode is enabled on apps I feel like I can breathe, it is that visceral. For the benefit of equity, diversity and inclusion I urge dark mode to be developed.
Hi everyone! We hear you and appreciate you continuing to upvote this Wish List item for our team.
Below are a few ways to that have helped other users navigate Miro on a darker screen, and that are available now:
Additionally @ElvaMiro The Chrome extension Dark Reader doesn’t work on Miro boards as needed - it literally turns everything ‘negative’ including images you’ve pasted in, icons, text, emojis, and the background. We need the UI in dark mode, not the entire board and all it’s content turned dark.
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Dark Reader
4 years and waiting - yet we have “intelligent canvas”
2024 no dark theme??
I was evaluating flowchart apps for a new company. Despite the superior mechanics, without dark mode, I can’t recommend Miro.
Dear Miro Team, We truly appreciate all the hard work that goes into making Miro such a valuable platform. However, many of us feel that a dark mode feature is essential for enhancing our user experience. Dark mode is crucial for comfort and accessibility across various platforms. We hope that dark mode is on your development roadmap, and we are eager to see this feature implemented soon. Thank you for listening to your community and continuously improving the platform.
I was evaluating flowchart apps for a new company. Despite the superior mechanics, without dark mode, I can’t recommend Miro.
Update: I opted to choose by committee. 15 department heads and project leads explored both draw.io and Miro for ~3 weeks, voting yesterday. ALL preferred Miro’s usability. 73% considered dark mode an absolute requirement, 7% simply preferred it, 13% were fine either way, and 7% only used light mode.
That’s $2,880/year that Miro just lost. Normally I’d say “Lol, they’ll live”, but anyone who ignores the top feature request 4 years in a row is actively seeking failure.
I was evaluating flowchart apps for a new company. Despite the superior mechanics, without dark mode, I can’t recommend Miro.
Update: I opted to choose by committee. 15 department heads and project leads explored both draw.io and Miro for ~3 weeks, voting yesterday. ALL preferred Miro’s usability. 73% considered dark mode an absolute requirement, 7% simply preferred it, 13% were fine either way, and 7% only used light mode.
That’s $2,880/year that Miro just lost. Normally I’d say “Lol, they’ll live”, but anyone who ignores the top feature request 4 years in a row is actively seeking failure.
I hope they know how important it is
Hi everyone! We hear you and appreciate you continuing to upvote this Wish List item for our team.
Below are a few ways to that have helped other users navigate Miro on a darker screen, and that are available now:
To echo people whom come after and responded to this.
I came from a company who used Miro pretty passionately and I’ve since moved on to another company. At the new company I am trying to force them to migrate from Visio… /cry… to Miro and we have to go the Enterprise path due to security requirements.
This would be another way of convincing our users to go this route instead of something else like draw.io or Figjam (They want us to use Figjam because it’s like a dollar per person and we already use it).
Would highly recommend implementing your most highly upvoted feature request of all time.
