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 (MIT)
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
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Microsoft Edge extension
Dark Reader News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- dbriggs updated Dark Reader
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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.
Dark Reader Videos
Dark Reader information
Developed by
Alexander Shutov Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.5Alternatives
26 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Category
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- Updated
- 4.27 avg rating
GitHub repository
- 22,283 Stars
- 2,742 Forks
- 1446 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.
They completely scrubbed the word "Honey" from their website. That SCAM extension (https://alternativeto.net/software/honey/about/) was their partner/sponsor for a long time. Now they removed all traces of it instead of owning up to being supported by them and forcing/recommending Honey extension on DarkReader users. There is no blog post explaining and documenting the removal of Honey extension because they don't want the bad PR (because they (were) supported (by) Honey) and are sweeping things under the rug. Transparency being non-existant means that trust is also ruined forever for Dark Reader (https://alternativeto.net/software/dark-reader/about/)
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.