Dark Reader

Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing.

What is Dark Reader?

"Dark Reader" is a Chrome extension designed to enable a dark theme for any website. It inverts bright colors to high contrast, aiding readability at night. Users can customize settings such as brightness, contrast, sepia filter, and font. The extension is free of ads and does not share user data. It’s fully open-source, with its code available for review at its GitHub page. Users are sometimes encouraged to support the app through donations.

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Extension stats

By: https://darkreader.org

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Users: 6,000,000+

Rating: 4.70 (11,972) ▲ 14 new ratings

Version: 4.9.96 (Last updated: 2024-10-30)

Creation date: 2020-06-29

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

alarms
fontSettings
scripting
storage

Host permissions:

*://*/*

Size: 780.29K

Email: da*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 67

Other rankings

#3 in Accessibility ▼ 1

#10 in Editors' Picks extensions

#12 in Darken your browser

#1 in dark keyword 87

#2 in dark theme keyword 78

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Other platforms

Dark Reader (v4.9.96)

4.53

(5,998) 1,248,361+

Dark Reader (v4.9.96)

4.60

(1,225) 2,792,640+

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Extension summary

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This eye-care extension enables night mode by 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 the brightness, contrast, sepia filter, dark mode, font settings and the ignore-list.

We may ask you to support the development of the app with a donation. You may see news about Dark Reader in the settings popup. There are Developer Tools for experienced users.

Dark Reader doesn't show ads and doesn't send users' data anywhere. It's fully open-source: https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader

Before you install it, disable similar extensions. Enjoy watching!

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Effective at applying dark mode on most websites
Simple and easy to use
Customization options available for dark mode

Cons

Does not work on all websites, including some specific sites like Google Maps and others
Recent updates have caused functionality issues
Specific features, like position indicators, may not work correctly with certain websites

Most mentioned

Works great on most sites
Issues with recent updates
Customization for dark mode per site

Recent reviews

best thing ever now i can create scratch projects in dark mode

אסטריקס סטיל, 2024-11-21

Für mich erfüllt die Erweiterung nahezu perfekt ihren Zweck. Weiterempfehlen werde ich sie aber ich würde mir wünschen, dass die Funktion auch auf PDF-Dateien nutzbar ist, die im Browser angezeigt werden.

Vincent, 2024-11-20

One of the all-time greats! Been a paid user for many years and it still continues to improve over time. So grateful for all the hard work you guys have done over the years. My eyes thank you.