Screen Shader | Smart Screen Tinting

Shades Chrome to a soothing orange color to decrease eye-strain, eye fatigue and to appease your brain's day/night cycle.

Screen Shader | Smart Screen Tinting - Eye Strain Reducing Chrome Extension

Screen Shader | Smart Screen Tinting is an innovative Chrome extension that works to reduce eye-strain, fatigue and maintain your brain's day/night cycle. With smart colour adjustments based on the time of the day, Screen Shader provides a soothing orange tint to your display, optimized for every website you visit. Ideal for late-night workers or casual browsers, it brings a noticeable benefit to your visual comfort and sleep cycle. Now open source with frequent updates!

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By: https://guiselin.com

Users: 200,000+

100.00K

Rating: 4.52

(1,439)

Version: 2.1.1 (Last updated: 2022-11-28)

Creation date: 2020-04-10

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

tabs
storage
scripting

Host permissions:

file:///*
<all_urls>

Size: 143.36K

Email: su*****@guiselin.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 1,313 ▲ 398

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#40 in Accessibility ▼ 1

#7 in Darken your browser ▲ 3

#3 in screen keyword 87

#16 in reduce keyword 5

#17 in display keyword 16 ▲ 2

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Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Screen Shader | Smart Screen Tinting (v2.1.1)

5.00

(4) 2,992+

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Now open source! Check out the source code and contribute here: https://github.com/MarcGuiselin/screen-shader

😁Do your eyes a favor, Install Screen Shader!

😍The most popular screen tinting application for Chrome!

🧐This extension is in not endorsed by or affiliated to f.lux Software LLC.

Computer displays produce bright blue light which can strain your eyes late at night and interfere with your sleeping cycle. Screen Shader is designed to tint your computer display a “cozy” orange color to reduce eye-strain, eye fatigue, and restore day/night balance, while also providing a wide variety of settings for everyone's different tastes!

With over two months of very hard work I present version 2.0! ⭐A completely redesigned modern menu! ⭐A completely new shading algorithm based off the newest research ⭐Full control over geopositioning, color, and darkness settings

User reviews

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Pros

Helps reduce eye strain, particularly for users with sensitivities to light
Easy to set up and use
Offers many customization options for screen tinting
Generally effective at darkening screens for better visibility during low light conditions
Widely regarded as one of the best options available for screen tinting extensions

Cons

Breaks functionality on certain websites, especially YouTube and Microsoft services
Disabling the extension on specific sites does not always revert to normal functionality
Can interfere with other dark mode extensions or settings
Some users report difficulty in adjusting settings due to brightness issues
Issues with full-screen video playback on platforms like Reddit

Most mentioned

Breaks websites, particularly YouTube and Microsoft services
Helps alleviate eye strain for users with light sensitivity
Inability to completely disable functionality on problematic sites despite disabling the extension
User-friendly setup and customization options
Overall performance is generally good but has some significant bugs

User reviews

Chromebooks already do this, don't they? And you can adjust the intensity of it in the settings. So for Chromebooks, this isn't much of a point of this, but I can see it being useful.

Corban Hogan, 2025-01-12

Indispensável

Cristiana Malheiro, 2024-11-25

This has always been a great and pretty much the best option but it's biggest fault is that it sometimes breaks websites and even disabling it on that website won't fix it, you have to disable the extension entirely to restore the broken websites. Two current offenders, YouTube with dark mode specifically on shorts but some other things whole sections turn white making navigation impossible as buttons and text are white as well. Bluesky scrolling is broken, the background color disappears and is replaced by black. These happen even with the extension disabled on those sites. Only way to fix is to disable the extension entirely. I've looked at some alternatives but still haven't found anything as good it's just frustrating that there are some major issues with this and the creator isn't very quick with fixing these things. If they could just make it so disabling on a site TRULY disables the extension on that site and not still running in the background that would solve probably all of these issues.

Nathan Olonoff, 2024-11-17

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Screen Shader | Smart Screen Tinting requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.