# DocsAfterDark: Dark Mode for Google Docs

> Beyond dark mode for Google Docs

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/docsafterdark](https://chrome-stats.com/d/docsafterdark)

## Overview

- **ID:** `docsafterdark`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** waymondrang
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 81,121
- **Weekly downloads:** 1,848
- **Rating:** 4.12 / 5 (294 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.0.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-02
- **First published:** 2022-01-17
- **Size:** 477 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/docsafterdark/)
- **Website:** [https://docsafterdark.com](https://docsafterdark.com/)

## Description

DocsAfterDark relieves eye strain by bringing a modern dark mode and a vibrant light mode to Google Docs. You can tailor the document appearance with a configurable background color, choose from colorful, grayscale, or black invert rendering, and fine-tune accent colors using the settings popup. A true-black “midnight” variant is also available for deeper contrast.

Control is global or per document, accessible from the extension icon in the toolbar. A bottom-left toggle lets you temporarily disable the extension on a page. The project is open source on GitHub, with donations via Buy Me a Coffee, and notes that it currently does not support other Google Workspace apps.

## Rankings

- #252 — Overall
- #53 — Appearance
- #3 — google docs
- #9 — dark mode
- #17 — google
- #32 — button for google

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `activeTab`

### Content script matches

- `docs.google.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: google.com
- This extension was updated more than 6 months ago. Older versions are more likely to be stable and safe.

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## Review summary

Users broadly praise DocsAfterDark for reducing eye strain and providing ad-free dark mode for Google Docs, with strong reliability for long study sessions. However, frequent concerns focus on UI readability (menus becoming white and unreadable), performance lag, incomplete compatibility with Google Slides/Sheets, and color inversion issues after updates. Despite bugs, many users remain satisfied when it works, and updates that extend dark mode to context menus are appreciated.

### Pros

- Reduces eye strain and helps reading for users with photosensitivity.
- Ad-free and free of trackers.
- Improves readability of Google Docs and is reliable for long study sessions.
- After updates, context menus and dropdowns also darken, improving consistency.
- Trusted, long-time extension with positive, years-long use.

### Cons

- Menus and dropdowns become whitewashed or unreadable (white text on white) in dark mode.
- Performance lag and slower browser when the extension is enabled.
- Not fully compatible with Google Apps (Slides and sometimes Sheets) or certain doc options.
- Inversion/color handling sometimes breaks after updates (text not inverted properly, UI colors washed out).
- Occasional breakage or degraded function after updates.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/docsafterdark)