Customization

Open /theme to change appearance and accessibility settings. Changes apply immediately and are saved as Sodapop preferences. Color, motion, personality, and the character set are independent choices.

Themes

Theme	Command	Character
Neon Arcade	/theme arcade	Near-black surfaces with pink, purple, and cyan accents.
Graphite	/theme graphite	Restrained neutral surfaces.
Midnight	/theme midnight	Deep navy and cool accents.
High Contrast	/theme high-contrast	Strong separation on a black background.
Daylight	/theme light	Light surfaces with dark text.

This still is from the real UI’s prepared, signed-out theme recording.

Personality and motion

The appearance menu offers Quiet, Playful, and Extra personality modes. Personality changes UI copy and decoration, not the model’s capabilities, Copilot access, or tool-approval policy.

Reduced motion disables decorative animation and cursor blink. You can select it in /theme or use a launch flag. The welcome mascot normally plays a brief opening sequence; typing, pasting, or pressing Esc skips it without losing your input. --no-banner keeps a text-only welcome panel instead.

The active-work indicator sits beside the composer. A still indicator with reduced motion enabled does not mean the application has stopped working.

Terminal options

sodapop --reduced-motion
sodapop --no-color
sodapop --ascii
sodapop --no-banner

Options can be combined:

sodapop --reduced-motion --ascii

NO_COLOR is respected when nonempty. Launch flags override the corresponding saved display choices for that run rather than permanently changing them. The appearance menu also offers no-color and ASCII settings when you want to save those choices.

Choose the font and its size in your terminal emulator, not in Sodapop. No Nerd Font is required. If box drawing or symbols look wrong, try --ascii. The website uses its own reading theme; changing it does not change your terminal application’s preferences.

Fit the workspace

The composer expands when a wrapped or multiline draft needs more room. Wider terminals show a sidebar with workspace, model, and capability details; the sidebar disappears on narrower screens so the conversation keeps priority. F3 focuses a visible sidebar for keyboard scrolling.

Use conversation navigation shortcuts to review long output. If a terminal reserves a shortcut, use /help or the action palette to discover alternatives.

Saved preferences

Preferences live in Sodapop’s platform configuration directory, not in the project. They include appearance and model choices, but not OAuth tokens. Use /theme and /model instead of copying another machine’s configuration file or adding unrecognized JSON fields.

Session history is stored separately and is scoped to the account and canonical project. See permissions and privacy for the distinction between preferences, history, and credentials.