Turn Off the Lights for Mobile

Name: Turn Off the Lights for Mobile
Author: Stefan Van Damme

By: Stefan Van Damme App

The most darkest web browser

Overview

Apple Apps Store

Version:

1.2.8

Last updated: 2019-04-26

Ranking

#1,151,640 ▼ 1,045,670

Features & Capabilities

Turn Off the Lights for Mobile dims web pages with a single tap, creating a distraction-free viewing experience by highlighting video players and reducing glare across mobile browsers. It supports YouTube, HTML5 video, and more, with a fast Apple WebKit-based render, incognito mode, and a simple, Material Design-inspired interface.

Features include customizable background color and opacity, a dedicated homepage, bookmarks and history pages, multiple search engines, and open-source status. Free to use, it’s designed for iOS devices (iPhone/iPad) and integrates as a lightweight browser extension for Chrome, Safari, and more.

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By:

Stefan Van Damme

Version:

1.2.8 Last updated: 2019-04-26

Version code:

822250656

Creation date:

2015-10-28

Bundle ID:

com.stefanvd.turnoffthelights

Compatible devices:

Size:

168.91MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-10-04

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Developed by:: Stefan Van Damme
Apple Apps Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/turn-off-the-lights-for-mobile/id1044081431
Website:: https://www.turnoffthelights.com/mobile.html

User Reviews

Users broadly praise Turn Off the Lights for Mobile as a practical iOS Safari night-mode extension that darkens pages, preserves image colors, and is easy to toggle on/off. It’s viewed as a helpful reading aid and can reduce eye strain on OLED screens. However, multiple reviews cite serious privacy concerns due to unclear data handling and broad permissions. Reliability bugs are also mentioned—crashes or features not consistently applying brightness. Some critique outdated updates and vague data-sharing information. Overall: useful for dark-mode browsing, but with notable privacy and stability caveats.

Pros

Provides a working night mode/dark mode extension for Safari on iOS with an easy toggle.
Reduces eye strain and saves battery on OLED screens by darkening backgrounds while keeping readable text.
Works as advertised and is easy to enable/disable.
Images are not inverted; page darkens without ruining image colors.
Useful as a secondary browser/reading aid in dark-mode environments.

Cons

Privacy concerns: unclear privacy policy and broad permissions that could allow reading all pages and sensitive data.
Reliability issues: reported crashes, pages not loading, brightness changes not applying; app sometimes doesn't work.
Transparency and maintenance concerns: lack of updates for a long time and unclear data-sharing details in App Store listing.

Recent reviews

Forget it! Last update 6 yrs ago and no privacy policy or practice provided! This app would have access to every page I visit, would be able to read all my data!! And creator of the app provides no information on how this access and data are handled….. who in their right mind would even download an app like that?!? How is Apple not monitoring this??