Dark mode / night reader icon

Dark mode / night reader

by o9000

v2025.3.2.0 Updated Mar 14, 2025 47.46KiB
CWS
10K
Users
★ 4.24
242 reviews
#5382
of 207.1K
accessibility
#304 of 6.4K
⚠️Not updated in over a year

Description

Inverts page colors, showing white text on a dark background, to reduce eye strain. Works especially well for people working during the night or in low light environments. Click the button in the icon bar to switch between the supported modes: * Mode 1 (default): invert colors and reduce contrast * Mode 2: invert colors, normal (high) contrast * Mode 3: reduce contrast only * Mode 4: disabled * Mode 5: inverts colors of text and images (useful for pages containing diagrams with text, but not photos). The settings are saved separately for each website. Right click the button to access the Options page, where you can change the default mode (for all pages). License: GNU GPLv2. Privacy: this extension respects your privacy; it does not upload any data whatsoever to the Internet. The only setting that is synced via Chrome sync is the default page mode setting; the per-website settings are stored only locally.
Dark mode / night reader screenshot 1Dark mode / night reader screenshot 2Dark mode / night reader screenshot 3Dark mode / night reader screenshot 4Dark mode / night reader screenshot 5

Reviews (28 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2021-06-06
aladje

it doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2021-01-07
Alori

broke

★☆☆☆☆2020-10-09
victor yu

it dose't work at all

★☆☆☆☆2020-09-10
Tempo

Not working

★☆☆☆☆2020-08-02
ashley phillips

it does not work. it did nothing

★☆☆☆☆2020-07-17
MARCELO SARMIENTO

it does not work properly with youtube. i can not see videos on full screen

★☆☆☆☆2020-01-06
Ahkando

It doesn't work for me. Tried refreshing, tapping the icon and everything but nope it stays white

★☆☆☆☆2019-02-16
Random K

everything is fine but i cant press cross on popups on youtube videos in its 1st and 2nd level plz solve this as soon as possible its very irritating

★☆☆☆☆2018-12-31
Frederick Tan

didnt work

★☆☆☆☆2018-11-05
Constantin

Doesn't work. I suspect it's a scam to steal your passwords.

★☆☆☆☆2018-10-21
Taavi Tillmann

didn't work on 1 page i tried. https://darkreader.org/help/en/ worked instead.

★☆☆☆☆2018-10-08
Robin Johnson

Does not work at all for me. I right clicked, went into options, just gave me a drop down menu. No matter which option I chose, nothing happened.

★☆☆☆☆2018-08-29
Yogi

Doesn't work at all

★☆☆☆☆2018-05-08
Patrick Speir

I click it and nothing happens.

★☆☆☆☆2017-12-24
Albert Hui

lots of bugs, fix it first !

★☆☆☆☆2017-12-09
Johan van Voorst (JoaoHolandes)

Maybe it works for some people but not for me,I can click, set different modes and nothing changes, too bad seemed a nice app

★☆☆☆☆2016-09-18
Tresus Ocelot

doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2016-08-29
Mihir Soni

doesn't work

★★☆☆☆2024-07-21
x3 nya

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

★★★☆☆2023-01-29
Bruno Melgarejo

Please add the function to disable the extension on specific websites (those that already contain the dark theme, for ex. youtube, gmail, facebook etc)

★★★☆☆2022-05-22
Wayne Leo

lack global switch

★★★☆☆2020-10-12
Jaspreet Singh

So, I have been using this extension for few years now. But lately if you invert the colors ( number 1: dark mode) the websites start lagging when you scroll. I'm sry to say that i have to uninstall it. PD: Has been working in IT for the past 8 years.

★★★☆☆2020-04-10
Adrian Santesteban

It's good, but I wish I could easily turn it off during the day quickly without having to go to extensions to disable it only to enable it at night. Seems like a pretty obvious feature to have. Even better, have it come on at a certain time everyday. Plus, some keyboard shortcuts are badly needed as well. You might want to setup a donation so that people can donate for your hard work in making it better.

★★★☆☆2019-12-30
Zoltan Torok

It works and websites do change, but if I want to change default mode, it glitches. For example, I've changed default mode to 3 - light, but low contrast and I've been through some wikipedia pages. The button says 3, but the option is 1. If I press the button 4 times to get back to 3, it's option 3, but next link I click is back in 1, claiming it's 3. Can you fix this?

★★★☆☆2018-08-13
ismet soner عصمة سونر

changes natural colors in some tabs and pics in dark modes (mode 1 and 2).

★★★☆☆2018-07-11
PABITRA MONDAL

IT CHANGES TO MODE 1 AGAIN AND AGAIN ........IT SHOULD REMAIN THE SAME MODE ONCE I SET IT TO BE..OTHERWISE EVERYTHING IS FINE

★★★☆☆2017-12-27
Tim mi

It works alright, better than many, but could use more options, and a better handling of facebook's image viewer. A good feature, is to be able to remove the contrast reduction, for when you are online shopping, but unlike Dark Reader, there's no slider (contrast reduction is either on(often too much) or off). The product isn't quite finished though: it's pull-down menu isn't completed and for now it opens a web-page to select one of the 3 modes (a 4th being "off"). And it seems to lack a whitelist, where you can exclude websites (such as when you use "Darkness beausiful themes" for Facebook, or not invert sites that are already using a black background).

★★★☆☆2017-03-04
Reginald Lim Sue

Works as described. However, videos are jerky. Once disabled, the vids go back to a decent framerate. A choice of colors for the inversion would be nice. But not as big a thing as the jerky vids.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 2025.3.2.0
Updated Mar 14, 2025
Size 47.46KiB
First Seen Apr 1, 2026