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Alexander Shutau

Dark Reader - Dark theme for every website, care for your eyes

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Dark Reader generates dark themes for websites on the fly. Use the night mode to take care of your eyes. Adjust brightness and contrast to better fit your screen.

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Ryan Hoover
Recommending to all my late night programming friends
Alexander Shutau
Maker
@rrhoover I wish everybody could sleep at night :)
Juan Vaamonde
Last week, I wondered if such a thing existed. Googled it. Found this. It works perfectly. Couldn't be happier.
Alexander Shutau
Maker
@javaamonde 4 years ago I googled it, but haven't found anything and created this tool :)
Sam Ayres
@javaamonde @alexanderby not all heroes wear capes, good job man đź‘Ź
Elizabeth
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead & love this. @alexanderby
Justin Sebastian

Love it. It would be awesome if we could specify a time to automatically turn it on every day.

Pros:

Works as advertised. Works on most websites incredibly well.

Cons:

Does not turn on automatically at night.

Bart Boch
An amazing tool. It's incredible how smoothly it works with whole range of websites! One feature request though - is there a possibility to darken new Chrome Tab windows before it loads? It now just blinks white before loading extensions. I have found some solutions on web, but all of them are outdated. So I wonder if this is possible through the extension.
Alexander Shutau
Maker
@mrbartboch You should install some dark theme from the Chrome Web Store, like Material Simple Dark Grey.
Christos X
This is amazing.
Nick Nish
I’ve been using this Chrome extensIon for the last year and it’s been phenomenal. As a dev, I work late. After learning about these kinds of extensions, I tried a handful, finally landing on this bad boy. And I haven’t gone back HIGHLY recommended.
Chris Ryan

This is incredible! You can adjust any site, with specific settings for each if you like. It doesn't need to be all dark or all light; there are in-between settings which makes this incredibly useful.

Pros:

Versatile

Cons:

None that I can find

Michael Texeira
This is fantastic! It seems to work perfectly on all major sites. The grayscale option seems like it could be a great way to save battery life (but that's just anecdotal conjecture from the same iOS function) @alexanderby - Any data on how dark mode + grayscale effects performance and/or battery use?
Alexander Shutau
Maker
@michaeltexeira There are lots of factors: - It depends on the technology of your display and it's power consumption characteristics. Older LCD displays still consume energy even when showing a black screen. If you open an absolutely dark image, switch off the lights in the room and don't see the light on the screen, it means that it uses more effective back-lighting. - If you are using Filter mode (see it under More tab), then your GPU resources are used. The larger is a web-page and more filters you use, the more energy is consumed by GPU. If you have hardware acceleration disabled, than your CPU will consume a lot of power. - If you are using Dynamic mode, it requires some CPU resources on initial page loading or when showing some dynamic SVG chart. It depends on how much style sheets and background images should be analyzed, but usually well-written website analysis requires some hundreds of milliseconds in total. Soon we will cache the analysis results, making it even more effective. - Static mode is the simplest and the most power-effective. Grayscale filter just equalizes red, green and blue sub-pixels polarization angle, it has no effect on battery use. Sepia filter just polarizes a blue sub-pixel, display back-light under it still illuminates. If you try Dark Reader in Firefox Mobile or in some mobile Chromium browser that supports extensions, you will notice (at least on my Nexus 5X) that when using a Filter mode the device becomes hot, no problem happens with other modes.
Ola Popoola
I didn't even finish reading up the newletter....i just clicked, installed first and then came back to read. I love products like this.
Jürgen Faè
+ sounds cool - I am scared by the permission: allow to read all content on sites visited
Alexander Shutau
Maker
@jurgenfae This is how all the extensions work (except those that work on particular websites). Dark Reader for Firefox and Safari has passed a manual review, I'm not sure about Chrome, as far as I know they have some auto check. You can always locate installed extension's files to check what it does. The source code is available on GitHub.
Stuart Stuart
Very useful to me!
Febian
This is my new favorite extension. As a "dark mode" lover, this extension is recommended for full dark mode experience. Recommend this to all my site's audience. Thank you!
Iam J
Wow.... great compatibility
nikolaos bessis
One of the best google extensions. Congratulations. Nikolaos
Joshua Klinger

Does the best job it possibly can. 100% execution. Perfect. Etc.

Pros:

Turns every website into dark version

Cons:

None

Julian Schiavo
Love the look of this.... Safari support please??
Alexander Shutau
Maker
ad3k

A extremely useful application with several color/mood settings

Pros:

Amazing plugin, delightful implementation on default colors.

Cons:

None yet...

🖖🏿 YENDIS!

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Pros:

Its making my night time use of the internet way easier.

Cons:

Can't find any, yet.

Guillaume Hain

I was so enthusiast about this, until I saw the price.

Pros:

Looks really awesome !

Cons:

Price is too high !

Alexander Shutau
Maker
Dark Reader for Chrome and Firefox is free