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Dark Reader

Reduce eye strain in your browser with this extension that provides a dark theme for browsing. Created by Alexander Shutov

Free Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Chrome
Safari
Firefox

This eye-care extension enables night mode creating dark themes for websites on the fly. Dark Reader inverts bright colors making them high contrast and easy to read at night.

You can adjust brightness, contrast, sepia filter, dark mode, font settings and ignore-list.

Dark Reader has also support for custom CSS skins, so it allows you to add different styles to the websites.

Dark Reader doesn't show ads and doesn't send user's data anywhere. More Info »

Dark Reader is listed in

Chrome / Chrome OS, Firefox Add-ons (worth using), Dark Mode, and Favorite Chrome extensions

Links to official Dark Reader sites

Official Website Twitter GitHub

Features

Browser extension Google Chrome Extensions Firefox Extensions Night mode/Dark Theme Safari extension Themes Add a feature

Categories

Development Web Browsers

Tags

brightness-reduction css custom-css customize-websites eye-strain reduce-eyestrain

Dark Reader was added by Ugotsta in Jul 2016 and the latest update was made in May 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Feb 2020. It's possible to update the information on Dark Reader or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Dark Mode for Google Chrome — Dark Reader

Safari dark mode — Dark Reader

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Dark Reader Comments

Comment by imh1kiko

about Dark Reader · Oct 2019 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

While it's good, it has a very high impact on CPU (due to dynamic CSS generation, as opposed to "filter:invert(1);").

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