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Will Discord client mods and themes work in its new app?

Vencord, BetterDiscord and CSS themes change Discord's Electron app, and Discord's new Rust app has no Electron. Which mods and themes are affected and what Discord has said.

Last updated on 12 November 2026

Today's desktop mods and CSS themes for Discord work by changing the JavaScript and CSS of its Electron app. Discord's new app draws its interface with compiled Rust code.12 As of 5 November 2026, Discord hasn't said whether mods or themes will work in it.

Will Vencord and BetterDiscord work with Discord's new app?

The desktop versions of Vencord and BetterDiscord won't work with the new app, because they install by changing files in Discord's Electron app. Vencord puts its own file in place of the app's starting file and keeps Discord's original next to it.3 Its docs say its patches "are RegExp replacements applied to Discord's JavaScript code at runtime."4 BetterDiscord's installer writes its own index.js file into Discord's app folder.5

Discord's co-founder and CTO, Stanislav Vishnevskiy, wrote on 4 November 2026 that "Electron goes away" and that the new app uses GPUI, a Rust UI framework from the makers of the Zed code editor.1 In GPUI, an app sets its colours, sizes and layout in Rust code that is compiled into the app, as the example on the GPUI website shows.2

A NixOS maintainer who packages Discord wrote in a tracking issue that the "Electron injection and ASAR replacements" of Vencord, Equicord, OpenAsar and moonlight won't work with the new app. The issue says the same about the BetterDiscord installer and discocss, a small tool that adds your own CSS to Discord's desktop app.6

Which Discord mods and themes are affected?

Every mod that changes Discord's Electron app is affected, including these:

  • Vencord adds plugins and themes to Discord's desktop app.
  • Equicord is a fork of Vencord with more plugins.
  • BetterDiscord loads plugins and CSS themes and has its own library of add-ons.
  • Replugged is a mod that was first based on Powercord.
  • moonlight and shelter are two more mods with their own add-ons.
  • OpenAsar replaces Discord's app.asar file and can add CSS and JavaScript.

CSS themes made for these mods are affected too, such as ClearVision, Midnight, system24, Catppuccin for Discord, Material Discord and DiscordRecolor, and themes from the BetterDiscord theme library such as Dark Matter and Frosted Glass.

Two older desktop mods had stopped before the announcement. Powercord's README says it "has reached EOL", and GooseMod's repository is archived.78

Discord's own themes, such as Dark, Onyx and the colour themes in Nitro, are part of Discord's app.9 Discord hasn't said yet whether they will come to the new desktop app. Asked whether message components would look the same on desktop and mobile, Vishnevskiy replied that the new app "looks and works identically to the current one".10

What happens on desktop and in the browser?

On desktop, mods that change Discord's Electron app won't work with the new app. CSS themes made for the Electron app stop working too, because the new app's interface is compiled Rust code and has no CSS for them to change.

Apps that load Discord's web version, such as Vesktop, Equibop, Legcord, GoofCord, WebCord and Dorion, depend on what happens to that version, and Discord hasn't said how its new web version will work with them. Vishnevskiy wrote about the web version that "We will have an HTML renderer for it, but logic will be WASM instead of JS."11

The NixOS maintainer expects these apps to "remain largely unaffected by the desktop rewrite, as long as the web client and the APIs they rely on stay compatible."6 WebCord's developer wrote on GitHub on 5 November 2026 that WebCord will keep following Discord's web version as long as Discord still has one.12

Vesktop comes with Vencord, and other apps here can load mods too.13 The mods in these apps patch the JavaScript of Discord's web version, and Vishnevskiy wrote that the logic of the new web version will be WebAssembly (WASM).411 These mods keep working until the new web version ships, and then there's no JavaScript left for them to patch.

CSS themes you add in a browser, for example with the Stylus extension, style the HTML of Discord's web version. Because the new web version still draws HTML, they might partly keep working, but Discord hasn't said what HTML its new renderer will use.

What about mobile mods like Revenge and Aliucord?

Mods for Discord's React Native mobile app, such as Revenge, Kettu and Valenced, change code that Discord says is going away. Vishnevskiy wrote that React Native goes away too, and that "mobile keeps native UI but shares app code with desktop via Rust."1

Aliucord is a mod for an older version of Discord's Android app, and its README says that version doesn't use React Native.14 Dropping React Native doesn't change it directly, and Aliucord keeps working only as long as Discord still lets that old version sign in.

Vendroid, a Vencord app for Android, loads Discord's web version, and it depends on the same open questions about the web version as Vesktop.15

Vendetta and Bunny had stopped before Discord's announcement. Vendetta's README on GitHub says "As of 06/02/24, Vendetta has been discontinued", and Bunny's GitHub repository is archived.1617 Revenge Next stopped on 29 October 2026, and its README says the work on it moved to a new mod called Valenced.18

What do people use mods and themes for?

People use mods and themes to make Discord look and work the way they like, and many use them for accessibility, such as a font for dyslexia or a screen reader add-on.

  • Full CSS themes change every colour, font, layout and background. As of 5 November 2026, BetterDiscord's most downloaded themes include ClearVision, Dark Matter and Frosted Glass, each with more than a million downloads.19
  • Equicord's FontLoader "Loads any font from Google Fonts", and Discord's own settings let you change the size of text but not the typeface.2021
  • The Dyslexia theme "makes the app more accommodating to people with dyslexia" by changing Discord's fonts, which Discord's own settings don't let you choose.1921
  • Vencord's VcNarrator plugin "Announces when users join, leave, or move voice channels via narrator", and Equicord's VoiceMessageTranscriber plugin gives "On-device transcriptions for voice messages powered by Whisper".2220
  • NVDA's Accessible Discord add-on needs a BetterDiscord plugin.
  • BetterDiscord's most downloaded plugin, CallTimeCounter, "Shows how much time you are in a voice chat", and other plugins open channels in tabs like a browser, translate messages, show people's local time and schedule messages.232220
  • Equicord's Declutter plugin removes parts of Discord's interface such as profile effects, nameplates, shop tabs and boosts, each with its own switch.24

Discord has its own settings for high contrast, reduced motion, text size and keyboard navigation, and these mods add what those settings don't cover.252126

Will people still see what changes in each Discord build?

Public datamining projects such as Discord-Datamining on GitHub follow each build by comparing "the JavaScript files served to the Discord Canary client", and a compiled Rust app is much harder to inspect that way.27 The project also says that features found this way may still change and aren't guaranteed to come out at all.

Are client mods allowed on Discord?

Discord's terms forbid using "any unauthorised software designed to modify the services", and they also forbid reverse engineering or decompiling its software without written consent unless the law permits it.28 Discord's official account wrote in 2019 that "BetterDiscord and other client modifications are not allowed, and are a violation of our Terms of Service. If you violate our ToS, you risk your account being disabled."29

Can I mod Fluxer?

Yes, and modding stays allowed on fluxer.com as long as you don't use it to harm other people or the service. Nothing in our terms or community guidelines forbids modifying our apps, and our web and desktop apps have themes and custom CSS built in.

Fluxer's apps are open source, and anyone can read their code and mod them.

Sources

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  2. GPUI, Zed Industries, accessed 2026-11-05. 2

  3. patcher.ts, Vencord on GitHub, accessed 2026-11-05. It says "Our injector file at app/index.js".

  4. Patches, Vencord docs, accessed 2026-11-05. 2

  5. injection.go, BetterDiscord Installer on GitHub, version 2.0.0, accessed 2026-11-05.

  6. Tracking: Discord's move from Electron to Rust, NixOS/nixpkgs on GitHub, published 2026-11-04, accessed 2026-11-05. 2

  7. Powercord README, Powercord on GitHub, accessed 2026-11-05.

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  11. Reply by Stanislav Vishnevskiy, X, published 2026-11-04, accessed 2026-11-05. 2

  12. Move away from Electron: follow the path of Discord Phoenix, WebCord on GitHub, comment by its developer published 2026-11-05, accessed 2026-11-05.

  13. Vesktop README, Vencord on GitHub, accessed 2026-11-05. It lists "Vencord preinstalled".

  14. Aliucord README, Aliucord on GitHub, accessed 2026-11-05.

  15. Vendroid, Vencord on GitHub, accessed 2026-11-05.

  16. Vendetta README, Vendetta on GitHub, accessed 2026-11-05.

  17. Bunny, Bunny on GitHub, accessed 2026-11-05.

  18. Revenge Next README, Revenge on GitHub, updated 2026-10-29, accessed 2026-11-05.

  19. Themes, BetterDiscord, download counts read 2026-11-05. 2

  20. Plugins, Equicord, accessed 2026-11-05. 2 3

  21. Help article on appearance settings, Discord, accessed 2026-11-05. 2 3

  22. Plugins, Vencord, accessed 2026-11-05. 2

  23. Plugins, BetterDiscord, accessed 2026-11-05.

  24. Declutter, Equicord on GitHub, accessed 2026-11-05.

  25. Accessibility Settings Tab, Discord, accessed 2026-11-05.

  26. Keyboard Navigation FAQ, Discord, accessed 2026-11-05.

  27. Discord-Datamining, Discord-Datamining on GitHub, accessed 2026-11-05.

  28. Terms of Service, Discord, effective 2025-09-29, last updated 2025-08-29, accessed 2026-11-05.

  29. Post by Discord, X, published 2019-08-31, accessed 2026-11-05 through an archived copy from 2023-03-03.

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