diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/App.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/App.tsx
index f58394a..e9831fe 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/App.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/App.tsx
@@ -265,10 +265,13 @@ function App() {
   return (
     <div className="app-shell flex h-screen w-screen overflow-hidden text-text-primary">
       <div
-        className={`app-sidebar-shell relative z-20 shrink-0 ${
-          isSidebarVisible ? 'opacity-100' : 'w-0 opacity-0 pointer-events-none'
+        className={`app-sidebar-shell relative z-20 shrink-0 transition-all duration-300 ease-[cubic-bezier(0.2,0.8,0.2,1)] ${
+          isSidebarVisible ? 'opacity-100' : 'opacity-0 pointer-events-none'
         }`}
-        style={isSidebarVisible ? { width: sidebarWidth } : undefined}
+        style={{ 
+          width: sidebarWidth,
+          marginLeft: isSidebarVisible ? 0 : -sidebarWidth
+        }}
       >
         <div className="app-sidebar-panel h-full w-full">
           <Sidebar
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/components/DownloadTable.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/components/DownloadTable.tsx
index 23bce05..07b59fa 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/components/DownloadTable.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/components/DownloadTable.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
 import { useDownloadStore, DownloadItem } from '../store/useDownloadStore';
 import { useSettingsStore } from '../store/useSettingsStore';
 import { SidebarFilter } from './Sidebar';
-import { Play, Pause, Plus, Trash2, FileText, Image as ImageIcon, Music, Film, Box, Archive, FileQuestion, MoreVertical, PanelLeft, ArrowDownCircle } from 'lucide-react';
+import { Play, Pause, Plus, Trash2, FileText, Image as ImageIcon, Music, Film, Box, Archive, FileQuestion, MoreVertical, PanelLeft, ArrowDownCircle, Command } from 'lucide-react';
 import { invoke } from '@tauri-apps/api/core';
 import { homeDir } from '@tauri-apps/api/path';
 
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ export const DownloadTable: React.FC<DownloadTableProps> = ({ filter }) => {
   const { downloads, toggleAddModal, updateDownload, removeDownload, clearFinished, redownload } = useDownloadStore();
   const { isSidebarVisible, toggleSidebar } = useSettingsStore();
 
+  const isMac = navigator.userAgent.includes('Mac');
+
   const [contextMenu, setContextMenu] = useState<{ x: number; y: number; id: string } | null>(null);
   const [columnWidths, setColumnWidths] = useState([340, 100, 220, 100, 80, 170]);
   const columnMinimums = [200, 80, 170, 80, 70, 120];
@@ -190,8 +192,18 @@ export const DownloadTable: React.FC<DownloadTableProps> = ({ filter }) => {
           <div className="downloads-empty-state">
             <ArrowDownCircle aria-hidden="true" />
             <div className="downloads-empty-title">No Downloads</div>
-            <div className="downloads-empty-description">
-              Use Add or press <span className="keyboard-symbol">⌘</span>V to paste one or more links.
+            <div className="downloads-empty-description flex items-center justify-center mt-2.5 text-[13px] text-text-muted">
+              Click <Plus size={15} className="text-accent stroke-[3] mx-1.5" /> button or 
+              <span className="flex items-center mx-1.5">
+                <span className="flex items-center justify-center px-1.5 py-0.5 bg-item-hover rounded border border-border-color shadow-sm min-w-[22px] min-h-[22px]">
+                  {isMac ? <Command size={12} strokeWidth={2.5} className="text-text-primary" /> : <span className="text-[10px] font-bold text-text-primary">Ctrl</span>}
+                </span>
+                <span className="text-accent font-bold mx-1.5 text-[14px]">+</span>
+                <span className="flex items-center justify-center px-1.5 py-0.5 bg-item-hover rounded border border-border-color shadow-sm min-w-[22px] min-h-[22px]">
+                  <span className="text-[11px] font-bold text-text-primary">V</span>
+                </span>
+              </span>
+              to add downloads
             </div>
           </div>
         ) : (
@@ -210,7 +222,7 @@ export const DownloadTable: React.FC<DownloadTableProps> = ({ filter }) => {
             </div>
 
             <div className="download-table-body">
-            <div className="h-full overflow-auto">
+            <div className="h-full overflow-auto flex flex-col">
               {filteredDownloads.map(d => (
                 <div
                   key={d.id}
@@ -294,9 +306,17 @@ export const DownloadTable: React.FC<DownloadTableProps> = ({ filter }) => {
                   </div>
                 </div>
               ))}
-              {Array.from({ length: Math.max(0, 10 - filteredDownloads.length) }).map((_, index) => (
-                <div key={`ghost-${index}`} className="download-ghost-row" />
-              ))}
+              <div className="flex-1 overflow-hidden flex flex-col pointer-events-none">
+                {Array.from({ length: 50 }).map((_, index) => {
+                  const isEven = (filteredDownloads.length + index) % 2 === 1;
+                  return (
+                    <div 
+                      key={`ghost-${index}`} 
+                      className={`download-ghost-row ${isEven ? 'striped' : ''}`} 
+                    />
+                  );
+                })}
+              </div>
             </div>
             </div>
             </div>
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/components/SettingsView.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/components/SettingsView.tsx
index 86229e3..0ba9341 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/components/SettingsView.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/components/SettingsView.tsx
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ export default function SettingsView() {
                     type="number" min="1" max="16"
                     value={settings.perServerConnections}
                     onChange={(e) => settings.setPerServerConnections(Number(e.target.value))}
-                    className="app-control w-16 text-center"
+                    className="app-control w-24 text-center"
                   />
                 </div>
                 <div className="mac-settings-row">
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ export default function SettingsView() {
                     type="number" min="1" max="12"
                     value={settings.maxConcurrentDownloads}
                     onChange={(e) => settings.setMaxConcurrentDownloads(Number(e.target.value))}
-                    className="app-control w-16 text-center"
+                    className="app-control w-24 text-center"
                   />
                 </div>
                 <div className="mac-settings-row">
@@ -267,15 +267,15 @@ export default function SettingsView() {
                     <span>Global speed limit:</span>
                     <small>0 = unlimited speed</small>
                   </div>
-                  <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
-                  <input
-                    type="text"
-                    value={settings.globalSpeedLimit}
-                    onChange={(e) => settings.setGlobalSpeedLimit(e.target.value)}
-                    placeholder="0"
-                    className="app-control w-20 text-right font-mono px-2"
-                  />
-                    <span className="text-[12px] text-text-muted">KiB/s</span>
+                  <div className="relative">
+                    <input
+                      type="text"
+                      value={settings.globalSpeedLimit}
+                      onChange={(e) => settings.setGlobalSpeedLimit(e.target.value)}
+                      placeholder="0"
+                      className="app-control w-24 text-center font-mono pr-9"
+                    />
+                    <span className="absolute right-2 top-1/2 -translate-y-1/2 text-[10px] text-text-muted pointer-events-none">KiB/s</span>
                   </div>
                 </div>
                 <div className="mac-settings-row">
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ export default function SettingsView() {
                     type="number" min="0" max="10"
                     value={settings.maxAutomaticRetries}
                     onChange={(e) => settings.setMaxAutomaticRetries(Number(e.target.value))}
-                    className="app-control w-16 text-center"
+                    className="app-control w-24 text-center"
                   />
                 </div>
               </div>
@@ -476,13 +476,23 @@ export default function SettingsView() {
               <div className="mac-settings-group">
                 <div className="mac-settings-row">
                   <span className="text-[13px] text-text-primary">Custom User Agent</span>
-                  <input
-                    type="text"
-                    value={settings.customUserAgent}
-                    onChange={(e) => settings.setCustomUserAgent(e.target.value)}
-                    placeholder="e.g. Mozilla/5.0..."
-                    className="app-control flex-1 ml-4 font-mono text-[11px]"
-                  />
+                  <div className="flex-1 ml-4 relative">
+                    <input
+                      type="text"
+                      list="user-agents"
+                      value={settings.customUserAgent}
+                      onChange={(e) => settings.setCustomUserAgent(e.target.value)}
+                      placeholder="e.g. Mozilla/5.0..."
+                      className="app-control w-full font-mono text-[11px]"
+                    />
+                    <datalist id="user-agents">
+                      <option value="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36">Chrome (Windows)</option>
+                      <option value="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36">Chrome (macOS)</option>
+                      <option value="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0">Firefox (Windows)</option>
+                      <option value="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0">Firefox (macOS)</option>
+                      <option value="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2 Safari/605.1.15">Safari (macOS)</option>
+                    </datalist>
+                  </div>
                 </div>
                 <p className="settings-group-footer">Spoofs the browser User-Agent to bypass download restrictions. Leave blank for default.</p>
               </div>
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/index.css b/apps/desktop/src/index.css
index c7450ac..f8161b9 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/index.css
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/index.css
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   --item-hover: 0 0% 0% / 0.05;
   --item-selected: 211 100% 50%;
   --accent-color: 211 100% 50%;
+  --stripe-bg: 0 0% 0% / 0.04;
 
   --text-primary: 0 0% 10%;
   --text-secondary: 0 0% 40%;
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@
   --item-hover: 0 0% 0% / 0.05;
   --item-selected: 211 100% 50%;
   --accent-color: 211 100% 50%;
+  --stripe-bg: 0 0% 0% / 0.04;
   --text-primary: 0 0% 10%;
   --text-secondary: 0 0% 40%;
   --text-muted: 0 0% 55%;
@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@
 
 .theme-dark {
   color-scheme: dark;
-  --main-bg: 0 0% 10%;
+  --main-bg: 0 0% 11%;
   --sidebar-bg: 0 0% 13%;
   --sidebar-glass: 0 0% 13%;
   --surface-raised: 0 0% 12%;
@@ -65,6 +67,7 @@
   --item-hover: 0 0% 100% / 0.07;
   --item-selected: 211 100% 56%;
   --accent-color: 211 100% 56%;
+  --stripe-bg: 0 0% 100% / 0.04;
   --text-primary: 0 0% 91%;
   --text-secondary: 0 0% 75%;
   --text-muted: 0 0% 50%;
@@ -95,6 +98,7 @@
   --item-hover: 326 100% 74% / 0.10;
   --item-selected: 326 100% 74%;
   --accent-color: 326 100% 74%;
+  --stripe-bg: 0 0% 100% / 0.04;
   --text-primary: 60 30% 96%;
   --text-secondary: 228 14% 74%;
   --text-muted: 229 12% 58%;
@@ -125,6 +129,7 @@
   --item-hover: 193 43% 67% / 0.12;
   --item-selected: 193 43% 67%;
   --accent-color: 193 43% 67%;
+  --stripe-bg: 0 0% 100% / 0.04;
   --text-primary: 218 27% 92%;
   --text-secondary: 219 28% 80%;
   --text-muted: 218 17% 63%;
@@ -376,7 +381,7 @@
 
   .app-sidebar-shell {
     padding: 9px 0 9px 9px;
-    background: hsl(var(--sidebar-shell-bg));
+    background: transparent;
   }
 
   .sidebar-resize-handle {
@@ -960,17 +965,18 @@
   }
 
   .download-row {
-    height: 31px;
+    height: 32px;
     display: grid;
     align-items: center;
     padding: 0 16px;
-    border-bottom: 1px solid hsl(var(--border-color));
+    margin: 2px 12px;
+    border-radius: 6px;
     color: hsl(var(--text-primary));
     font-size: 12px;
   }
 
   .download-row:nth-child(even) {
-    background: hsl(var(--item-hover));
+    background: hsl(var(--stripe-bg));
   }
 
   .download-row:hover {
@@ -1014,12 +1020,14 @@
   }
 
   .download-ghost-row {
-    height: 31px;
-    border-bottom: 1px solid hsl(var(--border-color));
+    height: 32px;
+    margin: 2px 12px;
+    border-radius: 6px;
+    flex-shrink: 0;
   }
 
-  .download-ghost-row:nth-child(even) {
-    background: hsl(var(--item-hover));
+  .download-ghost-row.striped {
+    background: hsl(var(--stripe-bg));
   }
 
   .download-status-cell {