# Turn Off the Lights for Mobile

> The most darkest web browser

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1044081431](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1044081431)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1044081431`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Stefan Van Damme
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.10 / 5 (217 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2.8
- **Last updated:** 2019-04-26
- **First published:** 2015-10-28
- **Size:** 169 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/turn-off-the-lights-for-mobile/id1044081431)
- **Website:** [https://www.turnoffthelights.com/mobile.html](https://www.turnoffthelights.com/mobile.html)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.turnoffthelights.com/privacy](https://www.turnoffthelights.com/privacy)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #105,910 — Overall
- #11 — dark mode
- #60 — chrome homepage

## Review summary

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 Some critique outdated updates and vague data-sharing information.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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1044081431)