The app background
One picture behind the whole app — and how a chat or a dashboard can bring its own and fade the window to it.
Kaizendex shows one background picture at a time, behind everything: the sidebar, the chat, your cards and charts all float on top of it as rounded, see-through panels, with a strip of the picture showing down each side.
Which picture that is depends on where you are.
Whichever thing you open decides the picture
Open a chat, an AI agent's chat, or a dashboard that has a picture of its own, and the whole window gently fades to it — not just that panel. Leave, and it fades back to your usual background. The fade takes about half a second, and it's instant if your device asks for reduced motion.
The order is simple, most specific first:
- What you have open, if it brought a picture — a chat, an agent chat, or a dashboard.
- Your own pick in Settings → Appearance → Background.
- Your theme's background, if it has one (Aurora Glass, Nocturne Glass, Deck White, Deck Black).
- Nothing — a flat colour.
So your Appearance pick is the app's default, not a rule that overrules everything else. And switching theme only changes the last-resort option — it never repaints a chat or a dashboard you gave a picture to.
Setting each one
| Where | How |
|---|---|
| The whole app | Settings → Appearance → Background — None, one from your shelf, or one of your own uploads |
| A chat or agent chat | the chat header's ⋯ menu → Set background — see Chat backgrounds |
| A dashboard | Board menu → Board settings… → Background — see Canvas boards |
Photos, GIFs and looping videos (mp4/webm) all work for the app background. Everything syncs across your devices the same way your entries do — including your shelf of backgrounds, which you can name and delete from the same picker (see Appearance and themes).
AI replies and chat composers use the same panel style as Your log: matte glass in glass themes, solid in other themes. Toolbars and controls keep solid base colors, so choosing a glass theme does not make text sit on a sharp photo. Chat date labels, conversation dividers, references and action chips are solid and shadow-free. AI message panels keep their matte finish without casting shadows over nearby messages.
Ready-made backgrounds
You don't have to supply the picture. Kaizendex has its own Backgrounds in the Library — a new account starts with six on its shelf, and Get more backgrounds in Appearance opens the rest.
Each one has a page where you can Try it on — the whole app wears it while you look around, and nothing is saved until you press Get this background. Getting one is free and costs you no storage; deleting it later only takes the tile off your shelf.
Some of them move: a slow, silent loop. The still picture shows straight away and the motion fades in behind it once it's ready, so you never wait for a background. Ask your device for reduced motion and you simply get the still picture.
Why it still reads well
Light themes show your wallpaper at its original colors and opacity, without an automatic white wash. Dark themes can soften the picture with a tinted wash. You can customize Wallpaper wash in the theme editor. Text sits on panels or floating capsules, and menus and search dim and blur what is behind them.
If you'd rather have the plain look
Two ways:
- Set the background to None in Appearance and pick a theme without one. The panels lose their deep shadows and go back to a plain hairline outline, since there's nothing behind them to lift off.
- Prefer solid to frosted? Try the Deck White or Deck Black themes — same floating frame, opaque panels.
Opening and refreshing
When you open or refresh the app, a solid loading screen covers it while your saved data and first background are prepared. Uploaded backgrounds reuse their cached copy on this device, so repeat visits don't need to download them again unless that cache has been cleared or evicted. Once you're in, switching pages keeps the previous picture visible until the next one is ready.
Next
- Appearance and themes — modes, themes, fonts and colours
- Windows, scrollbars and backgrounds — a background for the sidebar, your pages, or one page
- Chat backgrounds — a picture per conversation
- Canvas boards — a dashboard's own background and theme