Dark theme for Bitbucket Cloud is here!

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This feature update was also posted on the Bitbucket blog.

Software development requires a comfortable setup to be successful. If a key on your keyboard isn’t working, it feels like nothing is working. Your chair, lights, monitor - they all come together to help you be productive.

But what’s on the screen matters too. If you’re looking to improve your focus, reduce eye strain and lift your overall code review experience, Bitbucket Cloud now offers a dark theme option, a long-awaited feature among our most passionate users.

Starting today, we’ll be rolling out this feature to our entire user base. We invite you to sit back, dim the lights, and see a whole new side of Bitbucket.

Breeze through code reviews

If you’re used to writing code in a dark-themed IDE, you’re going to appreciate having the same option for doing code review in Bitbucket. We’ve taken special care to make the overall pull request experience look fantastic in dark mode, focusing on all the little details like file tree icons and a great syntax highlighting theme. (What’s that, you haven’t turned on syntax highlighting yet?) It all adds up to a more seamless experience for engineers who prefer to spend their working life in dark mode.

Theme selection available soon in your Bitbucket profile menu

Starting today, dark theme will be gradually rolling out to Bitbucket users. You’ll see an announcement message in Bitbucket when we’re ready for you to start using it. To turn on dark theme, open your profile menu and then choose Theme > Dark.

Of course, you’ll always have the option to stick with light theme if that’s what you prefer. And just like in other Atlassian products, you can choose “match browser” to lock your Bitbucket theme to your system setting.

Share your feedback with us

Our product, design, and engineering teams read every single piece of feedback you send – the good and the bad – and it helps us make Bitbucket better. We’d love to hear your thoughts about dark theme after you’ve given it a try.

[EA]

I hope it will be optional. I hate dark modes. Don't understand how people can even see anything there, but I understand that everyone has their own preferences. I am struggling with the Chrome dev tools' dark mode now. I have to manually switch it to light all the time I log out/log in back which is super inconvenient and frustrating, but it doesn't seem to save the selection. I hope this is not the case here.

[Dave Parrish _Atlassian_]

Hi @EA! Yes, dark theme is completely optional. You'll only see it if you decide to turn it on.

[Sarp Egemen]

Yay! The cloud team now also has the long-awaited and well-deserved dark theme! ✌🏻⭐️

[Urosh Velickovic]

I still cannot see it, is there some extra option that needs to be turned on?

[Dave Parrish _Atlassian_]

Hi @Urosh Velickovic 👋 We are gradually rolling out the dark/light theme picker over the next week or so. You'll see a popup message in Bitbucket when it is enabled for your user account.

[Marlon]

The dark theme looks fantastic! Thanks to the team for getting that out the door. Thanks for keeping everyone up to date during its development too.