Dark Reader
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Thunderbird
- Mozilla Firefox
Features
- Dark Mode
- Browser extension
- Zero Set-up time
- Reduce Eyestrain
- Ad-free
- Safari extension
Tags
- Google Chrome Extension
- Firefox Extension
- customize-websites
- eye-strain
- brightness-reduction
Dark Reader News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- Discover3464 liked Dark Reader
- mihirg reviewed Dark Reader
Solid, it does the job. I wish it could function for websites that have websites inside them, like my online textbook. Other than that the extension works incredibly well.
- mihirg added Ad-free as a feature to Dark Reader
guharfuh added Dark Reader as alternative to Nightshift Dark Mode
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What is Dark Reader?
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.
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Dark Reader information
Developed by
Alexander Shutov Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.6Alternatives
23 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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- Updated
- 4.23 avg rating
GitHub repository
- 21,452 Stars
- 2,636 Forks
- 1395 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
While it has been one of my most used extensions, it does have it's own share of problems.
Dynamic Stylesheet Inversion
What it does, is generates a more suitable dark theme for the site. Sounds good? There's few catches.
Custom Browser Theme
Changes the UI tone and color to a different "dark", however impacts Firefox start-up noticeably.
Other Annoyances
The extension shows itself. So. Freaking. Slow. Most times, it is more viable to just try opening it again, until it decides to respond.
Solid, it does the job. I wish it could function for websites that have websites inside them, like my online textbook. Other than that the extension works incredibly well.
Must have app. It works on well on 99% of websites.
Best open-source dark mode browser extension. :)
Awesome, but.
Long standing, highly requested and even PR-ed features are not getting implemented, like better URL matching ( https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/pull/2517 ).
Simple stuff like sorting and filtering the site list is not possible ( https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/issues/682 ). Which makes site list impossible to maintain as the list grows.
Site list matching syntax is not documented anywhere.
Dark reader is the only Chrome plugin I tried that would properly show formula auto-coloring in Google Sheets. Night Eye turned every auto-colored cell address item the same shade of green.
The best extension to put webs and some local files in dark theme. Easy to use and simple. The unique problem is the use of CPU.