diff --git a/onionshare_gui/downloads.py b/onionshare_gui/downloads.py
index f3ac2cb0..a9d7fb12 100644
--- a/onionshare_gui/downloads.py
+++ b/onionshare_gui/downloads.py
@@ -32,14 +32,24 @@ class Download(object):
         self.downloaded_bytes = 0
 
         # make a new progress bar
+        cssStyleData ="""
+        QProgressBar {
+            border: 2px solid grey;
+            border-radius: 5px;
+            text-align: center;
+        }
+
+        QProgressBar::chunk {
+            background: qlineargradient(x1: 0.5, y1: 0, x2: 0.5, y2: 1, stop: 0 #b366ff, stop: 1 #d9b3ff);
+            width: 10px;
+        }"""
         self.progress_bar = QtWidgets.QProgressBar()
         self.progress_bar.setTextVisible(True)
         self.progress_bar.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignHCenter)
         self.progress_bar.setMinimum(0)
         self.progress_bar.setMaximum(total_bytes)
         self.progress_bar.setValue(0)
-        self.progress_bar.setStyleSheet(
-            "QProgressBar::chunk { background-color: #05B8CC; }")
+        self.progress_bar.setStyleSheet(cssStyleData)
         self.progress_bar.total_bytes = total_bytes
 
         # start at 0
diff --git a/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py b/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py
index df9a3b84..d01a0c80 100644
--- a/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py
+++ b/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py
@@ -471,13 +471,23 @@ class ZipProgressBar(QtWidgets.QProgressBar):
 
     def __init__(self, total_files_size):
         super(ZipProgressBar, self).__init__()
-        self.setMaximumHeight(15)
+        self.setMaximumHeight(20)
         self.setMinimumWidth(200)
         self.setValue(0)
         self.setFormat(strings._('zip_progress_bar_format'))
-        self.setStyleSheet(
-            "QProgressBar::chunk { background-color: #05B8CC; } "
-        )
+        cssStyleData ="""
+        QProgressBar {
+            background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.0) !important;
+            border: 0px;
+            text-align: center;
+        }
+
+        QProgressBar::chunk {
+            border: 0px;
+            background: qlineargradient(x1: 0.5, y1: 0, x2: 0.5, y2: 1, stop: 0 #b366ff, stop: 1 #d9b3ff);
+            width: 10px;
+        }"""
+        self.setStyleSheet(cssStyleData)
 
         self._total_files_size = total_files_size
         self._processed_size = 0