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Another dark mode bump, I usually do my ripping at night and its blinding going back and forth from dark themed windows to bright white in makemkv

another bump, would love to see dark mode for makemkv in Windows.

Agreed. This would be a great feature. I often use MakeMKV in the evening, so having a dark mode would be wonderful.

I'm on Arch Linux (btw) personally and I used qt5ct to enable dark mode on makemkv.
Here is a version of qt5ct for windows which should enable dark mode for makemkv windows if you can install it.

https://github.com/RichardLuo0/qtct-for-windows
I haven't used it myself as I don't have a spare windows machine to test it out on but hopefully it helps.
if anyone here can have a look and provide instructions/install guide that would be great.

+1 for dark mode

+1 also for this nice to see peeps are still about on the forums too =)

It's almost 2026.

I have a modded build of the GUI with a dark theme applied. Use it alongside an existing install of MakeMKV on Windows.

https://mega.nz/file/2aoAgZxL#OsD3Pd2A0 ... ITtu4tYhPs

segfaulted wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2025 7:33 pm I have a modded build of the GUI with a dark theme applied. Use it alongside an existing install of MakeMKV on Windows.

https://mega.nz/file/2aoAgZxL#OsD3Pd2A0 ... ITtu4tYhPs

Thanks.

Someone really should setup a Git for the GUI on gitlab, githube or even git.makemkv.com using Gitea or whatever.

On Linux. Install qt5ct and adwaita-qt packages to get dark theme.

MakeMKV Dark Theme (Adwaita-dark)
https://ibb.co/hRcCWd50

16442496 wrote: Wed Dec 31, 2025 5:21 am On Linux...

Sure, you can do that with any dark theme on a Linux desktop but, having it specific to the GUI is good for "other" operating systems.

Sadly without a Git repo somewhere that someone can pull from, it's near pointless to take your time to modifying the code. The GUI is technically "OSS", but it's not collaborative thus not worth the time.

segfaulted wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2025 7:33 pm I have a modded build of the GUI with a dark theme applied. Use it alongside an existing install of MakeMKV on Windows.

https://mega.nz/file/2aoAgZxL#OsD3Pd2A0 ... ITtu4tYhPs

v1.18.3 is out now. Could you mod that one as well please? I just installed it and was blinded

THGhost wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 5:55 pm v1.18.3 is out now. Could you mod that one as well please? I just installed it and was blinded

Nothing changed in the GUI code between v1.18.2 and v1.18.3, so just use the mod as-is after installing the latest MakeMKV update.

ImCoKeMaN wrote: Sat Jun 03, 2023 2:07 pm Anyone that wants to build the GUI and include dark mode could as the GUI is open source: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29126&p=130924

I believe it's not quite as simple as making it follow a theme though, there's work involved =)

Thank you, good workaround for now. Much appreciated

+1 Yes to dark mode