# Pro themes and what visitors see on a Free plan URL: https://www.panoramr.com/help/pro-themes Category: Design and branding Keywords: pro theme, free theme, pro plan theme, for preview only, default look, free plan theme, theme tag, visitors see default theme Last checked: 2026-10-22 Which themes are Pro, who can use one in a published tour, and the free Default look that visitors get when a Free tour wears a Pro theme. Every theme can be applied to every tour, on every plan, to design with and to preview. What differs is what visitors get: a tour that wears a **Pro** theme shows it to visitors only when the tour is hosted or its owner is on a paid plan. This page lists the four places the app tells you so. To pick and apply a theme, start with [Choose a look for your tour: themes and My Designs](https://www.panoramr.com/help/themes-and-my-designs). **Who can use a Pro theme in public.** The owner's plan decides: Pro, Agency and Enterprise can. A tour that is hosted, or ever was, can too: a [Vault](https://www.panoramr.com/help/vault-hosting) or Free-plan hosting that has ended keeps the theme, and only Panoramr's branding comes back. A tour on a Free plan that has never been hosted cannot. **What a Free tour in a Pro theme shows visitors.** The free Default look. The colors, fonts, glass effect, bars, hotspot looks and transitions that a theme carries go back to the Default Theme's, and everything else stays as you set it: your menu bar, panorama groups and labels, languages, view limits, autorotate and logos. The parts of the player that the theme switched on stay on. The Design tab, its preview and the **Preview** tab keep showing your theme. Embeds follow the same rule as the public page. **When visitors get a change.** The moment the tour is hosted, or the account moves to a paid plan, visitors get the theme: the app keeps one stored page for each look, so there is no wait. With [Draft Workflows](https://www.panoramr.com/help/draft-workflows) the page you last published stays until you click **Publish changes** ([My changes do not show for visitors](https://www.panoramr.com/help/when-do-changes-show)). > **Note:** The rule reads the theme a tour was last given by pressing **Apply**. A look you built by hand on the Default Theme, with the same colors, is free to show to everyone. What a Pro plan buys is the finished themes. [Free account](https://www.panoramr.com/help/free-account) lists the rest of the plan. ## Which themes are Pro ### Pro tag Each theme card in the Library (Design tab > Themes) has a tag, **Pro** or **Free**. **Where:** the Themes panel (Design tab > Themes) in the **Design** tab, on each card of **Theme library**. Basic and Advanced view. **Default:** none; each theme is set by Panoramr's staff. The Default Theme is always **Free**, and so is any theme not marked Pro. **What it does:** Tells you whether visitors can see the theme on your plan. Most finished themes are **Pro**; the Default Theme never is. A design you saved under **My designs** counts as Pro for this rule. **What visitors see:** A **Free** theme shows to visitors on every plan. A **Pro** theme shows on a paid plan or a hosted tour; on a Free tour that has never been hosted they see the free Default look. **Related:** [Choose a look for your tour](https://www.panoramr.com/help/themes-and-my-designs), [Free account](https://www.panoramr.com/help/free-account). ### For preview only on this tour A line on a **Pro** card when this tour may not use Pro themes in public. **Where:** the Themes panel (Design tab > Themes), on each **Pro** card. Basic and Advanced view. **Default:** none; it shows by itself. **What it does:** Says `For preview only on this tour: visitors see the free Default look until it is hosted or you are on a Pro plan.` It appears on every **Pro** card while the tour is not hosted and the account is on a Free plan, and is gone once either changes. The card's **Apply** button still works. **What visitors see:** The free Default look, as above. **Needs:** Nothing; to remove it, host the tour or move to a paid plan. **Related:** [Host this tour](https://www.panoramr.com/help/pro-themes#host-this-tour), [Vault hosting](https://www.panoramr.com/help/vault-hosting). ## The notice that says what visitors get ### Pro theme notice A bar under the tabs of the Design tab, and a box on the Publish tab, that say visitors see the Default look. **Where:** The bar is under the tab row of the **Design** tab (a guest's trial tour is not shown it). The box is on the tour's **Publish** tab, above the **Web Embed Code**. Basic and Advanced view. **Default:** none; it shows by itself while the tour wears a Pro theme, has never been hosted and its owner is on a Free plan. **What it does:** Reads ` is a Pro theme. Visitors, and embeds, see the free Default look until this tour is hosted or you are on a Pro plan.` followed by `This editor still shows .` on the Design tab, or `The editor and Preview still show .` on the Publish tab. `` is the theme's name. **What visitors see:** The free Default look in the public page and in every embed. **Related:** [Free publishing and plan hosting](https://www.panoramr.com/help/free-publishing-and-plan-hosting). ### Host this tour The link at the end of the notice. **Where:** In the notice above, on the **Design** tab and on the **Publish** tab. Basic and Advanced view. **Default:** none. **What it does:** Opens the **Hosting** pane of the tour's Publish tab, where you can put the tour on a Vault or on your plan's hosting. **What visitors see:** Nothing changes until the tour is hosted. Then they get your own design. **Related:** [Vault hosting](https://www.panoramr.com/help/vault-hosting). ## Troubleshooting **My theme shows in the editor but visitors see something plainer.** The theme is a **Pro** theme, the tour has never been hosted and the account is on a Free plan. Apply a **Free** theme, host the tour or move to a paid plan. If none of that fits, the stored copy may be older than your last change: press **Save & Render** (with Draft Workflows, then **Publish changes**). **The notice does not go away after I upgraded.** Reload the Design tab: the notice is read when the page loads. **A free theme I changed also looks plain to visitors.** It should not: a tour in the Default Theme, or any theme not marked **Pro**, shows visitors your own design on every plan. Check that the tag on the card you applied says **Free**.