Dark Reader
Reduce eye strain in your browser with this extension that provides a dark theme for browsing.
- Free • Open Source
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Thunderbird
- Firefox
- iPhone
- iPad
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 byAlexander Shutov
- LicensingOpen Source (MIT) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.7
- Alternatives18 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
Apple AppStore
- Updated
- 4.71 avg rating
GitHub repository
- 15,850 Stars
- 2,058 Forks
- 746 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Firefox Extension
- Google Chrome Extension
- customize-websites
- eye-strain
- CSS / Stylesheets
- brightness-reduction
Lists containing Dark Reader
Student Workflow (Paperless) • Edge/Chrome Extensions • Firefox / Vivaldi • Useful Chrome ExtensionsRecent user activities on Dark Reader
undeniably_lizardUpvoted a comment on Dark ReaderIt's very customizable, and it's open source.- undeniably_lizardliked Dark Reader
BendyToythinks Midnight Lizard is an alternative to Dark Reader
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.
It's very customizable, and it's open source.
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!
It's becomes better over the version.