Dark Reader
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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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Russia
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Thunderbird
- Mozilla Firefox
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Best open-source dark mode browser extension. :)
Dark Reader information
Developed by
Alexander Shutov Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.7Alternatives
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- Updated Nov 20, 2024
- 4.22 avg rating
GitHub repository
- 20,787 Stars
- 2,543 Forks
- 1351 Open Issues
- Updated Jun 3, 2025
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.
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.
Dark Reader handles most sites well, 'out of the box'. There is very little need to make changes, but changes can be made if a site doesn't display with default settings. But, DR is Not an alternative to Stylish, as Stylish allows editing the CSS for every little thing on a site. Essentially replacing the author's CSS.
I sincerely recommend it!