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Open settings and go to Appearance. Near the bottom of the page there are two cards, Themes and Community themes. The first is your own library, the second the list other people have uploaded.

Picking one from the community

The search box is Search themes. Beside it sit the All · Light · Dark tabs, Liked, and the Trending · Popular · Downloads · Recent sort, all in one row. Themes already installed carry an Installed mark. If the search finds nothing, No themes match your search. comes up instead. Press a card and the screen changes to that theme at once. A bar appears at the bottom with the name, the version, and the author, asking for Install or Cancel. You can keep using the app while previewing, so open a manuscript and check how the body text looks. Cancel returns you to the theme you were using. If you pick a light-only theme while using dark mode, the app switches to light. Cancel and it returns to the mode you were in; install and that mode stays. When the install finishes, a Theme added: … notification comes up with Undo attached to it for a moment.

Assigning to light and dark

With no themes at all, the Themes card shows only No themes yet — install one from the community below. Once you have one, the card folds into two sections, Light and Dark. Each theme has the modes it supports, so a light-only theme goes into the Light section alone. An empty section leaves only the line No imported themes support this mode. Use the switch at the right of a row to set the theme for that mode, and the trash can to delete it. If you have a theme installed from the community, a Check for updates button appears. When there is a new version, v… available is added to the row and Update swaps it in. When there is none, it tells you only All themes are up to date. Themes imported from a file have no source, so they are left out of the check.

Importing and making your own

Import theme takes a .pnsv-theme or .json file. In the desktop app, double-clicking a .pnsv-theme file brings up the same preview bar. Press Create theme and the theme editor on the pensiv homepage opens in your browser. Send a finished theme to the app and the same preview comes up as when you pick one from the community.
Theme files are stored in your account library. Which theme you assigned to which slot is kept with your account too.