Dark mode / night reader

Name: Dark mode / night reader
Rating: 4.229166666666667 (240 reviews)
Author: o9000

Inverts page colors, showing white text on a dark background

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The Dark Mode / Night Reader Chrome extension enhances your browsing experience by inverting page colors, displaying white text on a dark background to reduce eye strain. Perfect for night-time work or low-light environments, it offers five customizable modes including color inversion with varied contrast levels and special handling for text and diagram colors.

Settings are saved separately for each website, allowing personalized viewing preferences. Easy mode switching is accessible via the icon bar button, with further customization options available through the context menu. Fully respecting user privacy, the extension stores settings locally and only syncs default page mode securely via Chrome's sync service.

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By:

o9000

Users:

10,000+

Rating:

4.23

(240)

Version:

2025.3.2.0 Last updated: 2025-03-14

Creation date:

2020-04-09

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
storage
scripting

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size:

48.60K

Email:

mr*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 7,151 ▼ 8

Other rankings

#94 in Accessibility ▲ 1

#11 in night mode keyword 58 ▲ 1

#16 in dark mode keyword 65

#30 in dark keyword 85 ▼ 1

#33 in reduce keyword 9 ▼ 1

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Other platforms

Dark mode / night reader (v2018.12.8.1resigned1)

41 4.36

(14)

User reviews

Users appreciate the extension for its multiple dark modes, simplicity, and effectiveness in reducing eye strain across various websites and platforms. However, common issues include occasional failures to remember presets, lack of per-site disablement features, and bugs with recent Chrome versions leading to incorrect theme application. Despite these, it remains a favored extension for night reading due to its ease of use and reliability on most sites.

Pros

Provides multiple dark mode themes with easy switching.
Effectively darkens most websites, including Google Docs, helping reduce eye strain.
Simple and fast interaction, directly accessible from the menu icon.
Consistently remembers user preferences for dark mode on most sites.
Works well across different browsers and platforms, including Chrome on Linux and Vivaldi.

Cons

Fails to remember or applies incorrect dark mode presets on certain websites, requiring multiple clicks to correct.
Lacks ability to disable or ignore specific websites that already have a dark theme, causing inverted or broken colors.
Settings are limited to presets and can be ineffective or non-functional for some users.
Sometimes requires manual page reload after enabling to apply the dark mode properly.
Buggy behavior with recent Chrome versions, causing wrong themes to be applied on page load.

Recent reviews

Please bring this back! "This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions." I hope you can resolve whatever the issue might be because this is one of my favorite extensions and I use it in all of my browsers.

Ryan Ewart, 2025-03-03

i love this night mode because it allows me to work in google docs with a grey page and black background rather than everything being fully black like the other night mode extensions ive tried. the one problem is that sometimes it doesn't remember your presets (i set mine to 4 as default) and will set it to something you dont want

qwinn, 2024-07-28

the settings don't work (plus they're presets)

x3 nya, 2024-07-21

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Dark mode / night reader requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

Dark mode / night reader has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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