GuideEveryoneall plans

Language, appearance and phone

WhereSidebar › your name › Appearance, Language

In shortSkillties comes in German and English, light and dark. You switch both in the account menu at the bottom left of the sidebar. The language is part of the address; the appearance lives only in your browser. On another device you choose both again. On a phone, Skillties runs in the browser and can be placed on the home screen like an app.

Your name sits at the bottom left of the sidebar. One click opens the account menu with User settings, Appearance, Language, the way to help and Sign out.

The account menu: appearance and language are right there, the personal settings behind it.

Change the language

Choose your name at the bottom left.
Under Language, choose Deutsch or English.

The page reloads in the new language. The language is part of the address: German pages start with /de/, English ones with /en/. So you can pass on a link in a specific language. Labels in the interface switch along; content such as skills and profiles carries both languages, as far as its owner maintained both.

When signed out, the globe sits at the top right.

Signed out: the globe for language and sun or moon for appearance on the right, next to “Sign in”.

Change the appearance

Under Appearance, choose Light or Dark. There is no mode that follows the operating system. In a new browser, Skillties is dark. The choice lives in the browser, not in the account: another browser or device starts dark again.

When signed out, sun or moon sits at the top right.

What is stored where

Setting	Applies to	Default	Stored in
Interface language	this browser and the address	English	address and browser
Appearance	this browser	Dark	browser
Email language	your account	English, later the language you last used	account

Emails from Skillties, such as invitations or notifications, come in the language you last used in the app. If you've never signed in, in English.

What the language changes and what it doesn’t

The language switches every label, menu, note and email. Content only switches as far as it is maintained in both languages: a skill or profile has a German and an English name and a description in both languages, maintained by its owner. If the English version is missing, Skillties shows the German one, even in English. Your own ratings, your profiles and your match don’t change with the language. Dates follow the language: “20.10.2026” in German, “20/10/2026” in English.

If you work in a workspace with colleagues in both languages, everyone sees the same content, each person in their own language. Comments and names stay as they were written.

On a phone

Skillties runs in the phone's browser and is built for it: the sidebar becomes a bar at the bottom, menus open from below, lists can be swiped. You can place Skillties on the home screen like an app:

Device	How
iPhone, Safari	the share icon, then “Add to Home Screen”
Android, Chrome	the three-dot menu, then “Install app” or “Add to Home screen”

Skillties then opens without the browser bar. You choose language and appearance there as described, in the account menu.

Good to knowThe buttons for appearance and language are named the same in both languages: Deutsch and English always appear in their own language so that everyone can find them.

Checked with version 0.6.0 · 20 Oct 2026