Today, I’ll be comparing two of the most popular Android UIs: Funtouch OS and ColorOS. These two are quite different in terms of design and functionality. Funtouch OS feels a bit outdated – it gets the job done, but lacks elegance and isn’t the smoothest experience.
On the other hand, ColorOS offers a much more refined and sleek UI, with a neat and clean design. To make this comparison, I have the Vivo X200 running Funtouch OS 15 and the OPPO Find X8 Pro with ColorOS 15 – both stable software versions. Let’s dive into how these two stack up.
NOTE: ColorOS and OxygenOS are essentially identical, with no notable differences. So, when I am comparing Funtouch OS and ColorOS, the comparison applies equally to ColorOS and OxygenOS since they’re practically the same.
1. Setup, Ads, and Bloatware
Both Funtouch OS and ColorOS/OxygenOS provide a smooth setup process, which includes data transfer options, like copying data from another device, and choosing your preferred search engine. However, both systems contain unnecessary toggles, even though these are premium devices, which detracts from the overall experience.
Ads and App Stores
Both systems feature ads, notably in the Global Search and lock screen magazines. While these ads can be turned off on both UIs, the experience is still a bit intrusive.
ColorOS offers the flexibility to disable its built-in app store and browser, giving you more control over the device’s software.

Funtouch OS, unfortunately, does not allow the disabling of the app store or browser, which can be a downside if you prefer a cleaner, ad-free experience. You can disable the notifications, though.

Bloatware
Both Funtouch OS and ColorOS come with a fair amount of bloatware, such as unnecessary pre-installed apps. However, both UIs allow you to uninstall or disable them unless they are system apps.

Like, in Funtouch OS, there is a persistent presence of the Jovi Home feature in the control center, which cannot be removed. Also, looking up for a word/opening a link takes you to the vivo Browser, even though your default browser is something else.

2. Lock Screen Customization
Both systems require navigating through the settings to access lock screen customization, rather than allowing you to long-press the lock screen directly. This is a bit less convenient.
Customization Options
Funtouch OS offers a variety of themes, live wallpapers, and one animation that allow for smooth transitions between the home screen and lock screen. The system also includes numerous always-on display options, but not as many as ColorOS.

ColorOS is simply better when it comes to clock theme customization. Flux Themes allow you to customize the lock screen, AOD, and the home screen, all the same time. There are lots of elegant clock fonts available, and you can customize the color with any shade you want.

There’s also a lot of animations, each unique to the theme. The word art text can’t be customized yet, but hopefully, that will be added in a future update.
There’s a lock screen depth effect with plenty of customization options. You’ve got several themes, from always-on display to the home screen, along with transitions and everything.
When it comes to lock screen customization, ColorOS is simply better. Funtouch OS lacks anything like this. It does have a depth effect, but it’s very limited—you also can’t adjust the wallpaper freely to match the depth effect, which is very annoying.
3. Lock Screen Shortcuts
With Funtouch OS, you have more flexibility in customizing the lock screen shortcuts (though the options are still limited).
On ColorOS, the right shortcut is fixed to the camera, and only the left shortcut can be customized. However, like Funtouch OS, the options are somewhat limited here as well.

Always-On Display
Funtouch OS offers basic always-on display customization, but the options feel relatively outdated and basic compared to what ColorOS offers.
ColorOS features a more diverse selection of always-on display styles, adding more personalization options. The visual quality of the always-on displays is also superior as you can match more AOD styles with the lock screen.
One notable thing about ColorOS is that it can show live alerts like music playback, food delivery, and even regular notifications on the always-on display. Funtouch OS lacks this.
Widgets on Lock Screen
Both systems do not support lock screen widgets, which limits the level of interactivity you can have from the lock screen itself.
4. Fonts
Funtouch OS offers two fonts: Roboto and Classic. However, both fonts have their downsides. The Roboto font looks outdated and lacks the modern appeal that some other UI systems provide.
The Classic font, on the other hand, is poorly optimized and messes up the formatting of special characters in apps like Google Chrome. This is an annoying issue, especially when reading articles or browsing the web.

ColorOS offers a wider selection of fonts, including OPPO Sans, Roboto, and One Sans. You can adjust font size, weight, and even use adaptive font weights. Additionally, the adaptive font weight feature intelligently adjusts the text weight based on the text being displayed
Unlike Funtouch OS, ColorOS allows you to use Zfont to apply third-party fonts.

5. Animations
Funtouch OS is mostly smooth but it doesn’t have the same smoothness that the ColorOS animations have. Also, by default, the Gaussian blur effect is disabled, so you’ll have to manually enable it in the settings, which is a cumbersome extra step.
ColorOS leads with its parallel animations that enhance the fluidity of transitions, creating a polished experience. The animations run seamlessly without any noticeable lags. Also, Gaussian blur is enabled by default.
6. Control Center
Funtouch OS sticks with the old combined control center design, where notifications and top controls are stacked together. The buttons, including essential ones like power and search, are quite small. The spacing between them is also inconsistent.
One of the few advantages of Funtouch OS is its direct access to notification history. Tapping the “History” button takes you directly to past notifications, which is more convenient than having to navigate through settings, as with ColorOS.

ColorOS offers a more elegant, modern control center with an optional split layout that separates notifications and controls. Both support smart replies in the classic control center. However, this feature isn’t available in the split control center of ColorOS.

In landscape mode, both ColorOS and Funtouch OS have design flaws. In ColorOS, the volume and brightness sliders become too large, which doesn’t look good. Replying to notifications in both UIs is a task in landscape mode.

7. Media Player
The media player on Funtouch OS is more functional but looks a bit squished.

However, it provides a much-needed seek bar, which ColorOS lacks. This makes controlling media playback much easier.

8. Notifications
Notifications are somewhat similar on both UIs but the buttons in the notification area in Funtouch OS are not as well-defined as those in ColorOS, making them every bit harder to interact with.
9. Widgets
The first party widgets in Funtouch OS are fewer and not as elegant. They also lack customization options. The bigger issue lies in the font issue: even if you change the system font, it doesn’t apply to the widgets. Plus, the overall look of widgets feels outdated, especially when compared to ColorOS.

ColorOS wins when it comes to widgets. The design is sleek and elegant, with a broader range of widgets like weather, photos, and more. They fit well into the overall design language of the OS.

ColorOS also has animations for both first-party and third-party widgets; Funtouch OS only has animations for first-party widgets.
That said, the world clock widget on Funtouch OS is better if you want to have just 2 or 3 cities. ColorOS is better for 4.

10. Screen Recording
Funtouch OS
- Supports recording system audio, microphone audio, or both.
- Offers three picture quality settings: High, Medium, and Low.
- You can also disable notifications while recording to avoid interruptions.
- While recording, you can annotate and doodle directly on the screen. However, the tools for annotation are quite small, which limits usability.

ColorOS
- Allows for more advanced recording options, including up to 2K resolution and a 32 Mbps bitrate, which is higher quality than what Funtouch OS offers.
- Dynamic frame rate support means you can record at up to 120 FPS, which is great for smooth, high-frame rate videos. You can also choose to cap the frame rate at 30 FPS or 60 FPS.
- You can hide sensitive information like notifications during recording.
- ColorOS lets you select the video encoding format.
- You can also record from the front camera while screen recording, which is helpful for creating videos or tutorials that require both screen content and a personal touch (like a face cam).

Drawbacks
Both UIs do not support recording on the lock screen, meaning you need to use a third-party screen recorder for this specific feature.
11. Do Not Disturb (DND)
Funtouch OS allows you to either mute notifications or completely hide them when the Do Not Disturb mode is enabled. This is a better approach.

However, with ColorOS, when Do Not Disturb is enabled, it only mutes notifications and calls, but it does not hide them. So, while you won’t hear the notifications, they will still pop up visually.

12. AI Features
Nowadays, AI features are very important to some users. So, let’s see how the two UIs compare in this aspect.
Funtouch OS
Funtouch OS has limited AI features—AI Eraser, which can remove unwanted elements from photos, and a Glare Removal feature which doesn’t work most of the time.
It also has Call AI Transcription and Translation and Live Transcribe for real-time speech-to-text conversion during calls or conversations. There’s also an AI in the Notes app, but the features are limited.
ColorOS
ColorOS, on that other hand, has an extensive suite of AI features.
The Notes app features an AI Writer, AI Summarizer, and AI Reply (please don’t use this) that help automate tasks, write summaries, and suggest responses, respectively.
AI Call Summarizer provides summaries of calls, making it easier to review important information discussed. This is not as good as vivo, which allows you to transcribe and translate calls live.

Photo Enhance improves photo quality by using AI to sharpen details and adjust colors, while Reflection Eraser can remove reflections in photos, which is particularly useful for photographers.
The AI Studio lets you generate AI portraits, and AI Documents help with document generation and management. Finally, there’s also AI in the notes app to help you format, generate, and summarize text.
Common AI Features
Both UIs include Circle to Search (a feature that lets you search by circling parts of a screen) and Google Gemini. Note that the availability of these features might be limited to select devices only.
13. Live Alerts

ColorOS has Live Alerts, a feature that shows updates like charging status, music playback status, hotspot connection, food delivery, and other real-time notifications that dynamically change based on the current activity. This is similar to the Dynamic Island seen on other devices.
Funtouch OS lacks Live Alerts entirely.
14. Camera UI
With Funtouch OS, you need to tap on the gear icon at the top to access all the settings and controls. This is less convenient than ColorOS where you can just swipe down on the viewfinder.
The camera app in Funtouch OS integrates the Night mode into the Landscape mode, which some users find confusing and unnecessary.

There’s also no way to force the night mode (except by making your phone very stable). Whereas, in ColorOS, you can use the tripod mode, regardless of whether your phone is on a tripod or not. ColorOS has an additional interval shooting mode while Funtouch OS lacks it entirely.
Notably, Funtouch OS or X series has an additional camera mode called Street Photography. This mode mimics the interface of a traditional camera, while giving you the functionality of a smartphone camera.
Watermarks
Photo watermarks are available on both UIs. However, ColorOS 15 takes the lead here with more watermark options. This is not to say that Funtouch OS 15 lacks watermark options—it has a lot of options and customization too but not as diverse as ColorOS.

Also, ColorOS makes watermark replacement easy by allowing you to remove and replace it with a single tap in the Photos app. Funtouch OS, however, requires you to manually crop the old watermark and apply a new one, and if not done properly, you’ll end up with two watermarks.
15. Fingerprint Scanner Shortcuts
Once unlocked, pressing and holding the fingerprint scanner lets you access up to five customizable shortcuts. These can be app-specific actions, like opening the scanner in GPay, calling someone, or opening full apps. This feature is available only on ColorOS and entirely missing on Funtouch OS.

16. Screenshots and Annotation
You can take screenshots with a three-finger swipe on both UIs, and long screenshots are also supported. While both offer annotation tools, I find Funtouch OS’s tools a bit more refined.

However, when it comes to pixelation, ColorOS does a better job. If you’re screenshotting a chat, ColorOS can automatically pixelate sensitive information, which is very handy.

Additionally, when you annotate and save a screenshot, both UIs can automatically delete the previous one.
17. Icon and Launcher Customization
Funtouch OS
- Icon customization is minimal (not in a good way).
- It only offers two icon packs (default and “Exquisite”), with no support for third-party icons.
- You can toggle app names to show or hide, but there is no flexibility to rename apps or edit individual icons.
- You don’t have the option to apply custom icon packs.

ColorOS
- This offers extensive customization for the default launcher.
- Allows applying third-party icon packs directly from the theme store or downloaded externally.
- You can resize icons (make them smaller or larger), rename individual apps, and edit specific app icons (e.g., applying a custom icon for one app while keeping others standard).
- You can also hide or show app/widget names.

Overall, ColorOS provides significantly more control over the launcher’s look and feel.
18. Status Bar
With ColorOS, you can adjust how time is displayed, with seconds or without. Battery styles are customizable too, with choices for bar, circle, or percentage formats. You can toggle specific status bar icons, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, on or off for a more personalized experience.

On Funtouch OS, you can only customize the battery style and that’s it. Even the battery style options are limited and unappealing when compared to ColorOS. In isolation, they’re fine. However, the major problem is the inability to hide specific status bar icons.

19. Battery Features
Battery Management and Features
Super Battery Saver: Both ColorOS and Funtouch OS come with a Super Battery Saver mode to greatly extend battery life.
Battery Health and Charging Stats: Both UIs provide users with the ability to check battery health and charging details, offering insights into long-term battery performance.
Sleep Standby Optimization: Available on both, this feature reduces power usage when the device is idle during the night.


Performance Modes
- ColorOS: Offers multiple performance modes, such as High Performance, Balanced, and Power Saving.
- Funtouch OS: Lacks any performance mode toggles but does optimize the performance in game mode.

20. Sharing Menu
Funtouch OS features a vertical sharing menu that’s easier for navigation. Apps can be pinned at the top for quick access. It automatically sorts apps based on recent usage.
ColorOS uses a horizontal sharing menu that feels clunky and inconvenient. Scrolling can be difficult, especially if the desired app is at the end. Plus, it does not prioritize or sort apps based on usage.
Winner: Funtouch OS has a far superior sharing menu, making it easier and faster to share files.

21. Privacy and Safety
Both UIs include standard privacy features like:
- App permissions and privacy dashboards for tracking access.
- Data protection, app locks, and the ability to hide apps.
- Dual apps and second space for managing separate user profiles or app instances.
22. Multitasking and Split-Screen Features
Funtouch OS
Funtouch OS supports floating windows for multitasking. It even includes a feature similar to Apple’s Stage Manager, letting you manage multiple floating windows:
- Windows can be dropped to the side or reopened in full screen.
- No limit on the number of apps in multitasking mode, unlike ColorOS, which is limited to three apps.
- However, several apps still do not support split screen or floating windows on Funtouch OS while they do on ColorOS.

The sidebar is lackluster and there is no option to drag and drop photos/files.

ColorOS
ColorOS includes Open Canvas, which enables seamless switching between two apps stacked vertically (top and bottom). ColorOS allows windowed multitasking with a maximum of three apps (two on the side).
It also has the File Dock in the sidebar (it syncs to the cloud too) for drag-and-drop functionality, allowing you to move files directly into supported apps. The sidebar is also more functional: it supports tools like screen recording, screen translate, and app shortcuts. It has a two-column layout for better organization.

Who’s the winner here?
ColorOS/OxygenOS are fairly better than Funtouch OS. While Funtouch OS has its merits, overall, ColorOS/OxygenOS stands out as the more refined UI. Yes, it does have its own set of issues, like the DND feature and a few minor problems, but these are far less troublesome compared to the design and other issues you’ll encounter with Funtouch OS. My personal pick would be ColorOS, but what about you? Would you choose Funtouch OS or ColorOS/OxygenOS? Let me know.
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