Night Shift

Night Shift automatically shifts the colors of your browser content to the warmer end of the color spectrum after dark.

Night Shift: Eye-Protective Chrome Extension for Night Use

'Night Shift' is a Chrome extension developed to protect users' eyes during night time browsing. The extension automatically changes the colors of your browser content to warmer, eye-friendly shades after dark. Users can choose from three scheduling options: Sunset to Sunrise, Manual, or Custom. With Night Shift, users no longer have to strain their eyes while browsing at night, and can enjoy the experience of browsing with warmer, gentler colors.
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Extension stats

Users: 200,000+
Rating: 4.49
(663)
Version: 1.1.2 (Last updated: 2024-03-22)
Creation date: 2020-07-08
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 165.89K

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Night Shift automatically shifts the colors of your browser content to the warmer end of the color spectrum after dark.

⚡ You need to refresh all the tabs, which were opened BEFORE the Night Shift was installed. You can also restart Chrome to refresh all the tabs at once. Otherwise, Night Shift will work only with the newly opened tabs.

⚡In accordance with the Chrome Browser policies, Night Shift is restricted to work on the Chrome Web Store and Home Page. Please open any other website (for example, YouTube) after installing this extension and check the extension in action.

Night Shift provides itself on a scheduled basis, you can choose from 3 options:

  1. Sunset to Sunrise (Chrome colors will be shaded every day automatically on Sunset).
  2. Off (manually enable the Night Shift to shade the screen)
  3. Custom (set up your own schedule to start up and finish display color adjustments)

Take care of your eyes. Change screen brightness to special eye-protective colors from the list or to a color that you prefer. Night shift changes the colors of the screen to warm and eye-protective shades. You can set automatically change screen mode by schedule or select a color theme for a certain website.

Working on a computer a night time may take affect your eyes. Night Shift Mode is a good opportunity to reduce screen brightening to take care of your eyes. Dark Mode isn't suitable for all websites, so applying warm colors to all websites will be the best alternative for screen tinting.

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User reviews

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Pros
  • Highly customizable with various color options
  • Easy to adjust settings at any time
  • Works well with websites that have tables
  • Has a whitelist feature to avoid affecting certain websites like YouTube
Cons
  • Problems with dark mode not working consistently, especially in full screen
  • Flashing white screens when switching pages or clicking links
  • Issues with saving website addresses in the whitelist
  • Incompatibility with PDFs and certain browsers like MS Edge
Most mentioned
  • Dark mode issues, frequently reported broken functionality
  • Customization features requested, particularly hex/RGB inputs
  • Flashing or color discrepancies when loading pages
  • Whitelist functionality not saving correctly
User reviews
一直在用,用起来非常舒服,不过最近发现了一个问题,之前一直以为是浏览器bug,如果访问的页面是那种纯文本页面,背景色自动是黑色的话,有可能会将页面显示出来的颜色调整为白色,这样原本黑色背景白色的字就看不到了,让人以为打开了一个完全空白的页面,希望开发者可以考虑修复一下这个bug。比如这个url:https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/jquery.min.js
by 林北, 2025-01-11

好用,如果增加一个“选择时间范围”能自动更改颜色更好了
by James Zhang, 2024-11-04

by Valerio Romano, 2024-09-25
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Night Shift requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Night Shift has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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