UI polish: the product works great, but it looks and feels unfinished (desktop + mobile)

Akiflow solves two major things for me really well:

1. Collecting todos from a wide variety of sources with minimal effort

2. Simple planning views that actually work (Today, This week, This month, etc.)

That’s why I’m still trialing it, and being invested in the community here.

But the interface doesn’t feel polished or consistent, and it makes the product feel less mature. This isn’t a feature request, it’s a product quality improvement request.

While I’m here: the “collecting from sources” part also has real reliability issues around status syncing. Examples:

• A bookmarked Slack message becomes a todo, but when I mark it done in Akiflow, the Slack message stays bookmarked.

• Same pattern for emails

• Jira tickets import correctly when assigned to me (as configured), but when I reassign the ticket to someone else in Jira, the todo stays in Akiflow instead of being removed.

What I mean by “unpolished”

• Visual hierarchy feels messy in places (spacing, typography, alignment)

• Color palette, shadow usage

• Components and states don’t always feel consistent

• Icons

• Contrasts

• Some screens feel patched together rather than one coherent system

Mobile matters too. A lot. Regardless of device or OS (desktop, iOS, Android, web), it should feel equally polished and consistent. Right now the differences between devices make it feel unfinished.

Why this matters

• It affects trust: the app works, but the UI makes it feel less premium

• It adds friction and cognitive load when you use it daily

• It can block adoption because first impressions matter

I’m not trying to be an ass here. I know design is subjective (it also doesn’t help that I also work in that field). But this is just my two cents.

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