The official Instagram app gives you exactly two looks: light and dark. Insta Pro takes the handbrake off. Full colour themes, custom accent colours, different fonts for the interface and your stories, personalised chat screens — the app can look almost unrecognisable within a few minutes of tinkering. This complete guide shows where the theme and font settings live, how to apply them, and how to keep everything readable rather than merely colourful. If you are new to the app, install it from our download page first; the Insta Pro for Android guide covers what your phone needs.
Where to Find the Theme Settings
Open Insta Pro and head to the extra settings menu — the section of options that the official app does not have. Inside, look for the themes or appearance area. Depending on the build, you will find ready-made themes in a gallery, individual colour controls for backgrounds, accents, icons and text, or a mixture of both: pick a preset first, then fine-tune the details. It is worth spending two minutes simply scrolling through everything before changing anything, so you understand the layout. Nothing you change here affects your account, your followers or how your profile appears to other people — themes are purely how the app looks on your own screen, which makes experimenting completely risk-free.
Applying and Customising a Theme
Start by applying a preset theme you like the look of, then walk through the main screens — feed, profile, messages, settings — to see how it feels in daily use rather than in the preview. If one element jars, adjust it individually: most builds let you change the accent colour (the colour of buttons, highlights and links), the background shade, and the chat bubble colours separately. Dark-based themes are the easiest on battery for phones with OLED screens and the kindest for night-time scrolling, while light themes can be easier to read outdoors. When you find a combination you love, note the settings somewhere or take screenshots of the theme page; if a future clean reinstall resets the app, you can recreate your look in a couple of minutes instead of starting from memory.
Changing Fonts in the App and in Stories
Font options usually live near the theme settings or under their own customisation heading. Interface fonts change the text throughout the app — menus, captions, comments — giving the whole experience a different personality, from clean and minimal to playful. Story fonts change the text styles available when you create stories, which is the part your followers actually see. Try a font for a day before judging it: the first hour with a new typeface always feels strange, and readability only becomes obvious after real use. If text starts to feel cramped, pair the font with a slightly larger text size in your phone’s accessibility settings. Remember that extremely decorative fonts are fun for headings but tiring inside long comment threads.
Tips for a Look That Stays Readable
Good customisation is invisible in the best way — you notice the content, not the colours fighting it. Keep strong contrast between text and background, avoid neon accents for large areas, and be careful with photo-heavy screens where busy backgrounds distract from images. Themes are one part of a wider toolkit we listed in our round-up of 15 hidden Insta Pro features, and they pair nicely with the privacy and performance tweaks in our best Insta Pro settings guide. Once your look is set, a quick tour of the homepage features list may suggest the next thing to try.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Themes and fonts change only what you see inside your own app on your own phone. Your profile, posts and stories appear completely normal to everyone else, in whatever app they happen to use.
In many builds, chat wallpapers and bubble colours can be set per conversation, while the main theme applies across the whole app. Look inside an individual conversation’s options for the chat-specific controls.
No. Themes are simply colour and style values applied to the interface. They have no meaningful effect on performance or battery life, even on budget phones with 2 GB of RAM.
Open the theme settings and choose the default theme, and set the font back to standard if you changed it. Your account, chats, downloads and other settings are untouched, so experimenting is completely reversible at any time.
A clean reinstall, or occasionally a major update, can return customisation options to their defaults. Over-the-top updates normally keep your settings. Keeping a screenshot of your favourite combination makes re-applying it a two-minute job.
A practical suggestion: change one thing at a time. If you apply a new theme, three colour tweaks and a new font in a single sitting, you will never know which change made reading the comments harder work. Adjust the theme first, live with it for a day, and only then experiment with fonts. Small steps make it far easier to land on a look you will still enjoy in a month’s time.
And if you run a business account, or you simply share a home screen with the official app, a consistent bespoke theme does something quietly useful: it makes Insta Pro instantly identifiable as yours the moment it opens, and it separates the mod visually from the standard app sitting beside it. It is a small delight, but it is the kind of detail that makes people keep an app.