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Dark Reader

Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing.

Users6MCurrent public install base

Rating4.7Store average score

Reviews13,140Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

7-day growth0Net users gained this week

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Version4.9.121

ManifestV3

Size801KiB

Languages39Deutsch / English / English (United Kingdom) +36

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Overview

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This eye-care extension enables night mode by creating dark themes for websites on the fly. Dark Reader inverts bright colours to make web pages high contrast and easier to read.

Adjust brightness, contrast, the sepia filter, font preferences. Enable dark mode on every web page or give websites a sepia tone. Enable or disable Dark Reader for specific websites, automatically sync with system dark mode, or detect already dark websites and leave them unchanged.

This is the original Dark Reader extension. Since 2014, we continuously evolve alongside modern web technologies to deliver fast and reliable dark mode support for people sensitive to bright light.

By installing the extension you agree to these terms of use https://darkreader.org/terms/

Please disable similar extensions to avoid conflicts. Enjoy browsing!

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Store average score4.7Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average4.5Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text8,000Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews13,140Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.7. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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A USER2024年9月2日

recomendado si te estan quemandos los ojos con el tema blanco :)

Gabriel Nogueira Fernandes2024年9月2日

Have been using it for years. Works great! I could not recommend it more. Thank you to the devs for giving us this tool free of charge, and keeping it updated for this long.

Jesse Temple2024年9月2日

Forget the haters, this extension rocks. Thank you, sent you a few bucks. 😀

wadani cabdi2024年9月2日

i have been using this dark reader for 2yrs now is is by far the best in this category especially the Dynamic it shows the prober color of any page without distortion

Vlad Veksler2024年9月2日

i've tried a lot of dark mode extensions and this one is by far the best. it only changes the light background parts of the site, doesn't mess with the rest of the colors, and everything is still readable and clean and within the theme of the original site. it allowed me to assign a keyboard shortcut to toggle darkmode on any website, and it's a complete game changer. any time i want a site in dark mode, i hit the ctrl-shft-D, anytime i want it back to standard view, i hit those keys again. i absolutely love it.

Phil Stamp2024年9月2日

Excellent response from these Top Devs to quickly address a bug in the browser caused by a browser update. Read it here: https://darkreader.org/blog/g-search-crash/ Thank-you Devs you are Top Tier

Xesús Devila (XE Dev)2024年9月2日

Top notch extension for us, tired developers. Fast and well designed, and for those who say the extension is bloatware, let’s remember that in this age, web pages can use more RAM per tab than some old PCs for all the OS, and despite that, Dark Reader is lightning fast. Thank you, Dark Reader team! Sadly, Chrome Web Store only allows 5 stars, but here, have five more: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Jon Dough2024年9月1日

Just "Stopped" working today, and it was doing great, until today! And when I tick the Dark Reader icon in the task bar, it shows up as solid BLACK without an text or icons or choices etc. I'm using Linux as my OS! And NO it does not have anything to do with my OS, since it is set a BLACK also for 12 years and 5 distos!

Tom Green2024年9月1日

This extension is the best of its kind. It is constantly updated and I think it is quite safe, since all the code is open. Thank you very much for providing such a convenient extension.

AI product read

Enables dark mode on every website by dynamically generating dark themes in real-time

Reduces eye strain and fatigue caused by bright white websites during night browsing or for light-sensitive users

Install extension → it automatically applies dark themes to all websites → user can toggle on/off via popup or keyboard shortcut → adjust brightness/contrast/sepia settings → optionally disable for specific sites → settings sync via chrome.storage

Target users: Night-time web browsers / Users with light sensitivity or eye strain / Accessibility-focused users / Developers and power users who prefer dark interfaces

Cannot inspect darkreader.org/support-us/ donation page to confirm it's purely voluntary and not a paywall
Cannot verify that 'Dark Reader Plus' (mentioned in some locale descriptions) is truly a separate product and not an upsell tier within this extension

Monetization

No paid features detected

The extension itself is completely free with no feature gating, subscription, or payment processing. A voluntary 'Donate' button links to darkreader.org/support-us/ (ui/popup/index.js:1702, 6254-6275). The 'pay_for_using' message (line 152-153 in en/messages.json: 'Pay for using Dark Reader') is a voluntary donation prompt, not a paywall. No premium/pro tier exists within this extension. Some locale files (ja, ko) mention 'Dark Reader Plus' as a separate paid mobile product with premium UI themes, but that is a distinct external product, not a feature of this browser extension. No Stripe, billing API, license check, or subscription logic exists in the codebase.

Confidence: 95
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: No login, authentication, or account creation is needed. The extension operates entirely locally using chrome.storage for settings persistence. The 'login' keyword hits in source are false positives: 'logInfo' (debug logging at background/index.js:3549) and CSS 'token' parsing functions (background/index.js:1080-1886). The 'session' hit is sessionStorage for local UI state (inject/fallback.js:7). No account management, OAuth, or credentials flow exists in the codebase.

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扩展能力较强：scripting、storage
主机权限覆盖范围较宽

Publisher

Alexander Shutau

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +447496436953
Address: 34-35 Hatton Garden Suite 746 Unit 3A London EC1N 8DX GB

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