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You can choose how the app looks and which language its menus and buttons use. These settings change the app only. Your resumes always print on white paper, in the language set for each resume.

Change the theme

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Open Preferences

Select your name at the bottom of the sidebar to open Settings, then select Preferences.
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Pick a theme under Appearance

  • Light: a light background all the time.
  • Dark: a dark background all the time.
  • System: follows your device’s light or dark setting and switches when it does. This is the default.
The change applies at once. Reactive Resume remembers it in this browser for a year, including after a browser restart. Another device or browser keeps its own theme choice.
Preferences with Light, Dark and System appearance, language, timezone and keyboard controls

Appearance, language and time live in Preferences

Other ways to switch

  • Press ⌘ K (Ctrl K on Windows and Linux), choose Change theme to…, then pick a theme.
Preferences with Light, Dark and System appearance, language, timezone and keyboard controls

Appearance, language and time live in Preferences

Change the interface language

On your first visit, the website follows your browser’s preferred languages. It uses a supported regional variant when an exact match is unavailable, or English if none matches. This automatic choice isn’t saved: a language in the page address (?locale=) or a choice already saved in this browser takes priority. Automatic selection needs JavaScript; homepage language links also work without it. After sign-in on a browser or device without a language choice, Reactive Resume restores your account’s saved language. If the account has none, it follows the browser or device. Automatic choices don’t replace your account language or become a local override. The Android and iPhone apps also restore your account language on an unconfigured device. Choosing System in Preferences explicitly follows that device instead. A switch between left-to-right and right-to-left languages shows a restart notice; the language changes immediately, and restarting applies the layout direction.
Fictional Maya Chen account in German Preferences, with Deutsch selected after opening a fresh English-language browser

Account language restored in a fresh browser

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Open Preferences

Go to Settings → Preferences.
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Choose a language under Language

Open the picker and choose from more than 50 languages. Each language appears in its own name, with its name in the current interface language below or beside it when different. For example, a German interface shows Français · Französisch. Search by either name, its English name, or a language code such as fr-FR.
The page reloads in the new language. The choice is saved in this browser for a year, including after a browser restart. A language in the page address (?locale=) takes precedence. You can also change it with ⌘ K and Change language to…. Before you sign in, choose a language on the homepage: the language name in the header and footer leads to the languages section, which lists every language in its own name. Each name opens the homepage in that language, and the choice carries over when you create an account.
Public language picker in a German interface showing Français with Französisch as the secondary name and no visible ISO code

Language names stay recognizable in a foreign-language interface

Account emails, such as email verification, password resets and email change approvals, use the language you last used Reactive Resume in, on the website or in the app. A new account starts in the language you signed up in. The links and how long they stay valid are the same in every language. What you write keeps its own direction. In a right-to-left language such as Arabic, a German or English description, title or salary still reads left to right, each paragraph from its first letter, and Arabic text reads right to left inside an English interface. Counts, page labels, dates and elapsed times follow the interface language’s number format. For example, Arabic uses ١، ٢، ٣ in interface counts and page names. This doesn’t rewrite numbers you type into a resume, application or answer, or change the resume’s own language.
Fictional English resume in an Arabic tablet editor with Arabic digits in the Check count, score and page labels

Arabic interface numbers around an English-language resume

The interface language doesn’t translate your resume. Each resume has its own Language setting in the Page group of the editor’s Design mode, which sets the section titles and date words on the page. A new resume starts in the interface language; Open Design → Page → Language to change it. See Set the language.
Spotted a wrong or missing translation? Select Help translate under the language picker to suggest a fix on Crowdin. See Translations.

Set your timezone

Go to Settings → Preferences and pick your timezone under Timezone. Interview times, reminders and schedules in Career use it. New accounts start in your device’s timezone; existing accounts that never changed it stay on UTC, which the field shows as UTC. Use this device’s timezone switches to it in one step, and the change is saved at once.

Turn off haptic feedback

In the Android and iPhone apps, many taps, such as choosing a design option, give a small vibration. To turn this off, open Settings → Preferences and switch off Haptic feedback under Feedback. The setting applies to this device only. The website has no haptic setting.

Reduce motion

Reactive Resume has no motion switch of its own. It follows your operating system’s reduced-motion setting: turn that on, and app content uses short opacity fades instead of slides or scaling. Spatial and layout movement stops; native sheets follow the platform’s reduced-motion behavior. Loading spinners remain visible while work runs. Keyboard mode switches and controls intended to open instantly still do so.