Compare Chrome extensions: Better Dark Mode vs Lunar Reader - Dark Theme & Night Shift Mode

Stats Better Dark Mode Better Dark Mode Lunar Reader - Dark Theme & Night Shift Mode Lunar Reader - Dark Theme & Night Shift Mode
User count 5,000+ 50,000+
Average rating 3.48 4.74
Rating count 27 1,277
Last updated 2017-09-23 2019-07-29
Size 32.82K 414.72K
Version 0.9.4 1.0.2
Short description
Give pages a better dark mode by avoiding things like full white text on full black background. Dark theme and night shift mode for every website. Care your eyes, use Lunar Dark Reader for night and daily web browsing.
Full summary
  • Creates a dark mode of any page by inverting the original colors, background-colors, border-colors.
  • Unlike most "dark modes," Better Dark Mode reduces eye-strain by not allowing any RGB values below 50 or above 200 by default. Darkness and brightness limits can be customized by user.

Potential updates:

  • Find a way to avoid flash of non-darkened page before extension runs on page load
  • Store the active/inactive state as well as darkness/brightness limit variables Chrome-wide (currently using localStorage)

Lunar Dark Reader extension will put dark theme on all websites, suitable for those work at night and dark reader for online news or book reading.

★ What will you get from Lunar Dark Reader extension:

  1. An easy way to create dark mode on every website. In addition, you can customize your dark theme visual from Brightness, Contrast, to Saturation.
  2. A night shift mode which changes the website's color to warmer, making it much more pleasing to watch. You can choose to use either dark theme or night shift mode, or both. You can also quickly activate these modes with simple keyboard shortcuts.
  3. You can set up schedule for each dark theme and night shift mode, and decide when you want to auto-activate dark theme.

★ Our Lunar Dark Reader extension is safe to use, as it complies with Google's policy: https://lunarreader.com/privacy/

★ Note: Remember to disable any similar dark theme or night shift mode extension to prevent compatibility issues.