Dark Reader for Safari App Reviews

Awesome app with just one missing feature. I use Dark Reader across all my browsers and have been very pleased. I love the fact it is so fast loading and that it allows a bypass for sites that have their own dark mode. The only thing missing to make this a five star app would be allow a per site setting for overriding a sites built in dark mode. That said, I am very please with the purchase and will recommend this app to friends.

Not as reliable as you’d expect. I use Dark Reader on Chrome on desktop and it works extremely well and I rarely have any issues with website formatting. That’s not the case for the iOS version, and very often I'm stuck with a white background and white text on a website, making it completely unreadable. This puts sudden strain on my eyes at night time, and it’s not something which I can look past. The main function of this app is semi broken.

Great App. Been using the same app on Chrome for a long time. Recently switched to Safari and I'm glad this is on there! Dark Reader is pretty easy to use and makes reading much nicer on my eyes. There might be a few one-off sites that the extension has trouble adjusting to but overall it's very solid. Giving it a 4/5 only because sometimes the extension becomes unresponsive on my Mac. It happens pretty rarely though (would honetly give it a 4.5/5 if I could)

So thankful 🙏. I’m awaiting cataract surgery and have barely been able to do anything on my phone 😭 because so few websites work natively with dark / reader mode. Specifically I was searching for some way to make Genius compatible (LGSTO!) and found a thread suggesting this app. I paid the $5 with my fingers crossed and almost cried when I saw it actually worked. This is going to make the next month or two so much bearable for me - I can't thank the creators enough!

Perfection!. Makes up for the operating system dark mode shortcomings so well! Wikipedia in dark mode years before they actually had it in their lab or main website… Any website that doesn't support dark mode, now you have it! It also does a pretty decent job at converting the color palette as well so that other bright colors are muted not just black-and-white!

Am I Paranoid?. WARNING -- CAUTION -- AFTER you purchase & install Dark Reader it tells you that it will read and capture everything you type! Including Passwords, Credit Card Info, Phone Numbers, Business Information, as well as your browsing history for every website you visit. NOTE: The info published on Safari > Prefrences > Extensions > Dark Reader conflicts with their Privacy Statement published in the App Store! Thier Privacy Statement claims that they never collect data. However, it does declaire that the information is transmited through 'Third Party Services'. Makes me wonder! Personally... I immediatly uninstalled after purchase. Good Luck

best dark reading extension for safari. Does not slow down web-apps as much as Night Eye, which I was previously using. Easy to turn on and off, and adjust brightness/contrast. Recommend using Filter Mode, which is the fastest mode. Also recommend using gmail in basic HTML mode when using this extension.

DO NOT LISTEN TO THE BAD REVIEWS. This extension has saved me a lot of eye strain over the years, I donated money to them when using it on other platforms and I’m proud to support them here as well. People complaining about 5 bucks? Are you kidding me? I rather pay that amount instead of a consult to an eye doctor, that’s for sure. So please, support these guys as this is hands down the best dark mode extension on the whole internet, a lot of time and effort was put into it and again 5 bucks ain’t going to bankrupt your account.

Great at what it does, but be aware of permissions. Dark Reader is great at what it does, but be aware of permissions issue: As reported by Dark Reader in the Extensions preference pane, it requires full access to webpage contents ("Can read sensitive information from webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards on all webpages") and browsing history ("Can see when you visit all webpages"). This should be disclosed prior to purchase. Compare with Content Blocker extensions (e.g., Wipr), whose preference pane reports that it "does not have permission to read or transmit content from any webpages").

Eyes forever saved by Vader. I have no idea why I put up with NOT using this app for so long. Google finally broke me. It was SO bright, especially late at night. Now everything is nice and dark, and if the formatting doesn't quite fit the website (a rarity) it's really easy to turn off for specific websites. 10/10. I told 4 people about it already.

Well worth the cost. I was a long time user of the free Firefox extension from the same developer and finally decided to purchase it for Safari on my Mac. It has almost all of the functionality from the Firefox version and anything that may be missing, is being added in each update. It also looks way better in this version. Maybe the developer has had more time to "pretty up" this version because it is not offered for free, but either way I love it. It works perfectly with all of my other extensions (ad-blockers, grammarly, and password managers). I wish I gave in sooner and realized it's worth the premium for the Safari edition.

Causes Safari to crash on my machine. As much as I want to like this extension, it causes significant problems on my computer. It causes all kinds of issues with Safari and I frequently get messages saying that Safari has suddenly quit working. I disabled every single extension I had, and then used Safari for several days after reactivating them one by one, and no other extension was causing these issues. As soon as I reactivated this extension, Safari started crashing on me again. Again, I really want to like this because the page rendering is beautiful and reliable, but for whatever reason it causes Safari to crash far too much to be reliable.

Crashes very often, devs uninterested. The extension crashes very often, rendering pages unreadable. When you click the extension icon there is no response. This is a problem because it requires closing and reopening my browser in the middle of the day, which derails my work at the worst times. The issue has been reported for years on Github but has gone stale as the developers don't seem interested in debugging or fixing it. The extension doesn't work reliably, but has not been updated in a year. I hesitated to leave this review, but my frustration has won. Unlike Dark Reader's other releases, this is paid software and it is fair for users to expect support.

Best dark mode extension. Dark reader is the best extension for PC, MAC and now IOS! There are many options to fine-tune your experience, from a pitch black filter to grey and blue, and you can also disable for specific websites. It’s clear that the developer has the best coding for universal dark mode browsing and it’s definitely worth supporting him

Really the only option for darkmode. Nothing else quite handles darkmode as well as this. I was sad to see the price for the Safari extension but honestly it's worth it. Create yourself a shortcut to enable/disable on each website. There are interesting interactions sometimes but just toggle the site over for a second and switch back. Note - it has an added benefit of showing you some of the interesting choices a web designer made on a particular website since colors get inverted

Fantastic. This is the best global dark mode I have found, on any browser for that matter. I love that it is instant, and that it's not just a high contrast black everywhere -- it actually has a clean appearance and allows you to customize it per site if you wish. One suggestion: try to make the customize sliders alter the page as the user drags them. Right now I have to let go to see the change.

My Favorite Extension This Year. I do a lot of monitoring of financial assets on additional screens, and they are often developed against a bright white background. For assets that run twenty-four hours a day this means that droaning light glaring at me late into the night. In a quest to end the eye pain I was suffering I was led to Dark Reader. It immediately solved my issues ad I was shocked at how well the darkened sites look; it was as if a professional had instantly customized a dark theme, not just some hack that darkend the colors. I love that I can have it darken all sites, or just a list of sites, all while having the ability to toggle the mode with a key combination. I mainly use it in Microsoft Edge, where it has been flawless. I noticed that a site in Safari displays incorrectly, while working fine in Edge. Other than that, I mainly bought the Safari app to support the cool extension because it's that wonderful.

Fantastic. I have used this extension for several years on Chrome/Edge and would consider it best in class for its community, intelligence in adaptation, and developer responsiveness. With this latest update it now even supports automatic conversion with light and dark mode on the system. So happy to finally have it available on iOS.

Works about 80% of the Time. I estimate that Dark Reader for Safari works for about 80% of the websites I visit. There are 2 main modes, Dynamic and Filter. Dynamic is supposed to look better and Filter is faster. However, I don't find that Dynamic usually looks better, so I've been using Filter. On some websites, Dark Reader inverts everything, including photos so that they look like negatives, which is not good. On other websites, fonts become unreadable because they are the same color as the background. I contacted the developer about this but he has not responded. Lastly, the free Chrome extension contains more options than the paid Safari version, which makes no sense. The developer's website says "Most of the features will be ported soon," but who knows when that will be.

Great but imperfect. Noir was what I started using with Safari on iOS but there are websites it doesn’t work on. Since Firefox with Dark Reader is my primary configuration on desktop computers, it made sense to try their iOS app. I found that most of the websites that don’t work in Noir work in Dark Reader, and most of the sites that don’t work in Dark Reader work in Noir, so instead of switching I now have Dark Reader turned on by default and Noir turned off by default, and when I encounter a website that doesn’t darken, I switch by making an exception for it in both extensions. Ideally one would be able to handle every website but nothing is ever that simple. Very few websites slip through both, so I’m pretty content with the setup.

A must-have browser extension, but . . .. I live by this extension on my PC. While this is a great extension for my iPad, it only has a selection of pre-configured settings for different view modes. I love all of them but I miss the ability to create my own settings, particularly a lighter sepia with thicker “stroke” settings (to make thin fonts mor “bold.” Developers: please allow for user-created settings as in the desktop extension. Many thanks.

Best Dark Mode plugin for Safari, but could be better. This is hands-down the best Dark Mode Plugin for Safari. Compared to the other plugins I've tried, the quality of the rendered page is just worlds better in Dark Reader. Very good results. Still, this extension could be beter. While Dark Reader permits the use of domain-specific overrides, there is currently no way to change settings for a sub-page on a site. Also, it costs $5, which is a lot considering this same plugin is free on other browsers, and the fact that the Safari version has a more limited feature set. I'm willing to excuse this to a certain degree because the market for similar extensions on Safari is not very competitive right now. Plus, I'm willing to bet that the Safari version follows a separate development track due to the way Apple structured things.

Been using for awhile, glad it’s on iOS now!. Thanks to iOS 15, this works as a safari extension. I’ve been using the pc browser extension for a long time and I’m so glad it’s on iOS. Right when Apple announced that safari extensions would be a thing, I got so excited and couldn’t wait for dark reader. 100% worth the price.

Great but one issue came up…. After the 1.1.0 update whenever I leave safari for a while (it doesn’t really matter how long - could be seconds, minutes, hours), when I return to safari the style messes up. Logos on a site are surrounded by white and links are not blue anymore. Reloading the page fixes this, but it is an inconvenience that didn’t exist in the earlier version. If this was fixed again I would give 5 stars for sure. Other than this it is the best dark mode extension for any platform.

Essential for Eyeballs. I originally got Dark Reader on my computer and I love the functionality. Rarely a website is designed such that I can’t see everything properly in dark mode and it’s so easy to switch modes for that website only, and it has saved me so much eye strain and headache! I was so excited when I saw they have an app for Safari too, instant download. I recommend it to everyone!

WHAT A RELIEF. I was looking at the bright glare of Wikipedia this morning and realized how bugged my eyes were, so we I went searching for a solution. Sure, like many of you, I was initially put off by the cost of this app. "Why should I fork over 5 of my hard earned dollars - an amount I will happily spend on an afternoon coffee I certainly do not need - for a dark extension that should (1) be built into Safari and (2) is offered for free for Chrome, Firefox, etc. Well friends, as soon as I installed it all the background browsers I'd stopped noticing all went dark, and I could feel my nervous system release. It's remarkable what a difference this makes. Maybe it should be free, I don't care, all I care about now is how much more enjoyable an experience browsing the web is. thanks!

Excellent Software!. This software was well worth the price. I have not had any problems with this software working with the Safari Browser. There are many setting if you want to adjust the Dark Mode. I love the default setting: “Detect Dark Theme. Site’s Theme Will Not Be Overridden.” This setting can be changed also. I Highly Recommend Dark Reader for Safari.

Same great extension, now on my iPhone!. I've used Dark Reader for years on Firefox, and it's a very reliable extension. Very rarely do find websites where the color pallet swaps make it unreadable. And when it does, I can just turn off the extension for a second, get what i need, and flip it back on. Though I haven't spent very long on the Safari version, I believe that will carry over to this version as well. (I will update my review if it turns out otherwise.) Worth the money and the peace of mind for my privacy.

Simply awesome.. The new addition of themes is more than a welcomed feature! Pure black backgrounds on white text can be a painful reading experience, but now I can create or use one of many themes to aid my and read for longer! I’ve been using DarkReader since I first heard about it early in 2019 (it’s been around for longer) and definitely loved it for my Mac and love it even more for iPad and iPhone! However, I must add I wish DarkReader would communicate between devices via iCloud to save and load my settings for websites I choose to darken. Other than that, it’s an amazing extension! 10/10 would recommend!

Essential quality of life extension. I have a vision issue which causes dark text on light backgrounds to be difficult to read at times. I’ve used Dark Reader on desktop browsers for some time, but on iOS and iPadOS I needed to use Safari’s Reader mode or system-wide Invert Colors. They worked, but each method has its own drawbacks. I’m very happy to see this make its way to Safari in iOS 15, and also that my purchase of the Mac version carried over to the iOS version. (I was prepared to pay the full price again without hesitation.) This version is somewhat less configurable than the desktop extensions (replacing the static/dynamic/sepia filters with a palette of color themes) but the core function works just as well. My only complaint is that if any other extensions are active, it takes extra taps to activate Dark Reader (once to call up the extension menu, then again to change Dark Reader settings), but I assume that’s an OS limitation.

Beautiful. That’s honestly the best way to describe this app. It does exactly what it promises, which is the only reason I paid for it. I’m tired of hunting for dark mode on every website when my computer is already set to it. I love that the sites I visit are automatically in dark mode. Bright white backgrounds absolutely wreck my eyes, and this app completely fixes that problem. To whoever made this: thank you. Truly.

Works unusually good. I've had a lot of supposed "dark readers" on other platforms that were clumsy and didn't get the colors right. This one finally got it right. All the colors invert/substitute correctly in a way that makes sense. Even pdfs from webpages are converted. This is like the most useful thing so far on Safari I bought.

Fan-freaking Tastic. It's so too bad that you can't darken up pdf's and images, because for everything else, this is perfect. I spend most of my day in a browser, because business apps now mostly run in browsers. Even on google's apps, where you have to make one tweak, this is so much better than any other plugin trying to darken in any other browser. I'm glad I ponied up the $5.00 or whatever it was. Mad props, brother.

Got Cataracts?. Having a minor case of cataracts, I have found the MacOS Mohave's Dark Mode a great benifit to help reduce bright glare and ease eye strain. This Dark Mode Safari extension is a welcomed addition for keeping my screen dark. The extension works well for most web sites but it is possible to turn off the dark mode when it doesn't. Dark Reader has greatly improved with the update to Version 1.0.1.

Not bad, but could be so much better. I haveen't tried other dark mode plugins for Safari so I can't provide much comparison, but I have used Dark Reader on Gecko and Chromium browsers and the Safari version feels years behind. Most urgent improvements would include adding support for local .html files, determining why some websites simply aren't affected by the extension, and a variety of minor bug fixes leading to some websites appearing mottled light and dark.

Seems really buggy to me. There was a recent update that started turning all my pages sepia. Took me a bit to figure out it was a buggy release and not some local setting. After updating things improved. Now the extension has completely stopped working in my Safari and I no longer see the icon in the toolbar. Disabling it and reenabling it causes it to apply dark mode to some open pages, but Dark Reader icon is still nowhere to be found in the toolbar.

You had me at Vader. Seriously, you had me at the cool Vader icon. I love having it up at the top of the browser. As an extension, it works just as well as Night Eye, but better in many ways. First, the one time price is cheaper than a monthy/yearly greedy developer--so thank you for that. I love that you can make it disabled by default for any new sites I visit but then quickly enable it if I want. Also, it just works. I have the latest Big Sur and Safari and there are no issues unlike Night Eye who's settings I had to keep restarting the extension to see. The only suggestion I have that would make the app better is to be able to control the effects sliders (brightness, contrast, filtermode toggle) on a per-site basis. Currently they get applied to all sites which isn't ideal in most circumstances. And finally, the icon. This one is the best I've tried of all the dark mode Safari extensions out there. Just get it!

Good Enough. Works really well for what it's intended to do. Not sure if it's the fault of Dark Reader or Safari, but when you're using this plugin, there is an icon at the top of the page that you'd click to configure settings and on/off. If the safari browser has been open for a while (say, an hour or two) clicking the icon fails to do anything, and you need to quit Safari & reopen to toggle dark mode on/off.

Can’t live without it!. I have been a long time user of this app and I have found it essential for late night reading/browsing before bed or when I have insomnia. Even on the lowest iPhone brightness settings, websites with white or light backgrounds can be completely unbearable. It would be a sad day if web standards change enough to not make this app work anymore.

Fantastic extension!. I’ve been using this extension on desktop for years, and it’s one of the best out there. The iOS app is no different. It does everything very intelligently, by not only inverting the background but also dimming some content like buttons and header images/logos, but without affecting actual pictures on the content you’re reading. All the little tweaks it does add to the experience and make it so that you almost never have to disable it due to something not looking right. And the extra color modes like Sepia and the dozens of others are super fun and make browsing a breeze. Highly recommended!

Great Extenstion, But It's a Shame It's Not Free Like On Other Browsers. This is a great extension that does exactly as it is intended to do, but it's just a shame that it costs $4.99 for Safari when the exact same extension is available for free on Chrome and Firefox. I assume this is likely not Dark Reader's fault, but instead is due to the fact that Apple forces all Safari extensions to only be available in the app store.

Seriously love this app.. I have been a major fan of Dark Reader extension for years with all my Windows Linux Browsers. I am trying to switch to a Mac and found I was required to purchase it for Safari, was going to try purchase a different extension for cheaper price, but before I did purchase that extension I learned I was also going to have to purchase a second one for iOS and iPadOS, but with Dark Reader I could purchase it once and it carried to all my other Apple devices. That alone made the decision for me. $4.99 one time or $2.99 for each platform…. That means they charged me $6 for something I could get for $5.00. I highly recommend this extension, sometimes it may screw-up, but so does it with those other extensions, at least this gets updated regularly.

This extension changed my life.. I'm visually-impaired, and can no longer read "normal" black text on a white background. With this extension I can read most web pages without having to invert my screen or use a screen reader. I'm so used to it that I'm always surprised when I use a browser without it installed. My complements to the developers; having this available across browsers (and especially iOS) is tremendously helpful.

Even better now with Auto switching. I bought this app and used it for a few days always on, and I loved the look, but wished there was a way to set it to switch automatically with Dark Mode. The app was updated this morning with an update doing just that and it works great! Highly recommend!

Extremely impressive, this has maxe a big difference. I struggle with light sensitivity and have difficuly with contrast, so bright background websites are difficult to read. It's an early impression, but this extension has worked on (and made it much easier for me to read) every site I've tested it on. Testing so far was with the default settings, there are a number of user-selectable settings you can adjust. So far, I'm very impressed and wish I'd found this app a whle back.

Why didn't I try this sooner?. I had used and liked this extension in Firefox, but for some reason don't think of adding extensions to Safari. When I got tired of being blinded by sites like the Washington Post I gave Dark Reader a try, and couldn't be happier. It works about as well as one could expect such an add-on to work, i.e. not perfectly, but surprisingly well. Disagree about $5 being expensive. I wish more extensions and apps would charge a simple one-time price. It's an extremely good value.

Almost always perfect. It works, and it works great, but there's more than a few times where I'm on a site that doesnt work well with dark mode so I have to turn it off or back on, but when I click the icon at the top, nothing happens. I end up having to right click, hit manage extensions and then remove and re-enable dark reader. It's not too big of a deal, just a minor inconvenience that happens pretty often.

Feature parity. Extension wasn't updated for over a year and was painfully behind other platforms (despite being the only paid version). Recent update finally fixed compatibility/feature-gap issues. Hopefully extension maintenance will not be neglected again. Doesn't collect any data. 1 star

Would be perfect with one addition. Overall this app is awesome. I love how you can disable it on websites which don't play well with the extension. What is lacking though, is the ability to use dynamic mode vs filter mode on a site by site basis. I use dynamic mode as the look is much more consistent, but on several sites it renders the page blank but filter mode works just fine. I'd like to be able to set these sites to use filter mode as opposed to having to disable the extension for the site which then renders this one bright white website with all others being a nice dark mode. For me, it's the only thing holding this back from 5 stars.

Much better than Night eye. Just bought this like 1 minue ago because i was using the free month of pro night eye but then it terminated. This is actually better than night eye in gneral. More customizable, and it actually renders stuff much better without the clors going bonkers. Great app defentily worth the extra 2 buck over some of the other nght mode apps on the app store! also has highest uer base so it is the most likely to get updates and be a better app in general. Keep up the good work!

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it works like this. Its Black yes Black NO MORE BLINDING LIGHTS Google docs in Safari is BLACK I luv u xxxx

It Works in 2026. Wanted to write a recent review. So I started uni and I use the same laptop I do for work. I use chrome for work and safari for school. No matter what site, even custom sites for school, it just works so well. Theres no awkward whites anywhere, besides images that aren’t a png. Thanks. Price is bit high, but so far it just works

like it but:. i wish it had the option to choose accent colours as well, like purple or blue, or to give it a small tint

Finally updated!. I am one of the biggest users of Dark Reader for all of my browsers. It had been a while since the Safari app was updated, which was hampering its use last few months. However, the new update fixes everything! Thanks mate for an excellent app!

Satisfied my Precious Eyes. I just recently installed this and I enjoy it for night time to avoid blinding white lights, it is a llittle pricey ($8) but 100% worth it. I'd highly recommend investing in this as it is one of a kind dark mode reading for safari.

Fantastic!. I was a little sceptical about how well this would work as I have used free extensions in the past and they werent any good. This, however - is fantastic! Well worth the price, just ask my eyes!

Try Noir or an alternative instead. Even after many updates, the Safari version is terrible on Mac. Recommend that others try alternatives.

Seems to work. Works well so far, other similar apps have failed miserably. Hopefully this will work throughout all sites while maintaining the visibility of content. Oh, please update the app icon to something better, it’s so geeky.

Stellar!. Very polished, works great so far. Well worth the modest price.

Love this for my PC, but this burns my eyes.. Love it, my only gripe is something I am not sure if the dev is able to fix, but due to the screen being closer to my eyes, the screen brightness makes the white text get ‘burnt’ into my eyes - like looking into a light bulb. I had to turn it off the darkest setting to combat this, although I would prefer to have it fully black (for oled benefit).

Great product. Thank you for saving my eyes in the wee ours of the night.

Good!!!. Excellent app for use in browsing safari, would love to see you make a dark mode app that makes all apps be in dark mode. Also love your computer dark mode add on

good. good, but says app can see websites visited and see passwords and financial information? can someone explain this??

Without a doubt the best money I've spend. If you desire dark mode on everything. THIS IS FOR YOU! Hands down the best money I've spent in a VERY LONG TIME. Works seemless for almost every website I've used. If your a Google Suite poweruser, this is life saving from the white light. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Now I can go back into my dark mode lair without fear of the light. PS - for the developers - you guys need to sell out to Apple. This would be perfect for the Apple ecosystem as an option. Great product.

Works perfectly. Bought this app as soon as iOS15 came out and it works perfectly :-) I only wish sometimes pages don’t flash white before loading, but otherwise I love this app.

Works A Charm Instantly. Great app that really integrates dark mode perfectly with all websites – seemingly no issues or missed areas etc. Works 100% as described and does its job perfectly. Thoroughly recommend!

Its good. it is a good extenstion, but for $8, i would have expected more. It wont work on online word documents, which is the main reason i brought it. It is dissapointing, hopefully they update it soon

The great work!!. it's instantaneous, magically works !!! Great work by this dude, believe me i've used a lot of apps and this is most underrated app. If developer cut 30% price, i think it will be hugely popular but can't complain as this is only app which works.

Surprising. Starting working straight away. No difficult configuraiton, worked with all the websites i had opened at the time. This review is after 10 minutes of usage, but im feeling good about the purchase already.

Not recommended. The equation will be blurring into a gred image.

Awesome app thank you so much. This is fantastic awesome to finally have a system change

Amazing. I’ve been using Dark reader on my iMac for about a year now and now being on IOS it’s amazing highly recommend this extension

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Feature set lagging behind. The MacOS Safari extension for Dark Reader lags far behind the feature set available on Firefox, Chrome, et al. It also rarely gets updated. As of July 19, 2023, the extension has not been updated in over a year. This is not great, especially because the Safari one costs money, while the other ones are free; those ones get updated almost weekly. What's up with this? I'd rather the extension not be available than pay for a gimped version.

unbelievable buggy on macos. just use something else, they had years to fix this

Exactly What I Was Looking For. The biggest issue with dark mode is the web. This extension did exactly what I wanted, it made the web dark. Websites that didn't auto invert could be customized to do so in the settings.

One of the best dark mode extensions. This is the best dark mode extensions for Safari and Chrome. While there are competitors out there, their extensions are quite buggy (example, articles like medium don't display properly) The only issue with this extension is if I leave Safari open for a while (perhaps even after opening my MacBook again from standby), tapping the extension icon doesn't do anything and I have to quit and reopen safari. Other than this issue this is a 5 star extension!

we need shortcuts to turn on and off. I enjoyed this for years on Chrome version and I just realized there is no shortcuts to turn on and off on Safari version. I really need it. Devs PLEASE! Thanks for the great app

Not as good as dark mode safari and more expensive. I have to buy other app even though I bought this one at first. The dark mode in here is not very consistent and pleasing to the eyes. For example, if the website is already in dark mode, Dark reader still apply and the result is quite bad. Wish i didn't pay 7$ for this

Great app, needs more. Please add the option to use different themes on different sites.

Great but... This is one of the best dark more apps for safari but I would love it if the devs added a feature to allow the app to switch on and off depending of the time of the day (day or night) for us users who always have our phones on dark mode, but want to see webpages in their original format during the day.

Abandoned by developer. I paid for this, and it's now broken on half of the websites. It's no longer maintained by the developer. It's now worse than the free Dark Night app, which is pretty good and is based on the same open source project DarkReader. The official one is dead, the developer forked the project, took the money and ran away.

Buy it. That's what Google has been withholding to promote their browser. Now, every page's background is black or grey and can be adjusted. Worth every dollar

Simply perfect. It just works. No issues. Best purchase ever.

By far my preferred dark mode extension. For iPad, the one annoyance I have is that the extension stands/pops out too much in the tab (Safari compact mode for me). Perhaps Safari on iPadOS does not allow an extension to appear transparent nor a placement option right next to the sidebar icon instead, but a slicker icon would be much appreciated, or better yet make an option to hide its icon. If it weren’t for that I would rate it 5 stars like I did for the MacOS version.

Amazing extension. I love this extension on chrome. Surprised to see no invert list like on chrome extension. Only downside so far.

Best 'dark' mode extension out there. This is great! I use it both on chrome and safari. Everything looks better and they've done a fantastic job. Great job! Wish list: Please replicate all the features to safari. Safari consumes much less energy on laptops than chrome and firefox so it's my browser of choice.

Best dark theme extension. It is the best dark theme extension on iOS and the Mac. Please add dark mode site detection, so it doesn’t have to apply the dark theme again.

Works a Treat. Works very nicely on my M1 Mac. Lots of useful settings, shortcut options etc. After a morning where it felt like my eyes were being burnt out, this was a great purchase to bring the darkness back to my screen. Note: works just as well on my iPhone/iPad as well.

zéro utile sur un carte blanche. une carte sur une page web va toujours rester blanche, les autres fenêtres/menu vont changer seulement.. cet appi est pourri pour moi qui voulait l’utiliser pour les cartes..

What happened to the PDF function?. Works great in all other aspects, glad to see a dark app finally and not have to use Chrome anymore. The only issue is that when PDF's load, they are still loading completely white.

Beats out Noir. The default colours are so much better then noirs’ helping legibility immensely! As well filtering around logos seem to be more intelligent.

Great purchase. I'm using his extension at night time in combination with the dark theme on my MacBook.

Blinding Light be GONE. Love the app, and would rate it higher, but the permissions of it concern me "Can read sensitive information from webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards." Umm, why do you need to read that information?

Broke Reddit on Mobile. This app broke Reddit on mobile. Unsure why. Took a lot of AB testing to figure it out.

The Best. I've tried them all and the others fail regularly. This app is very highly recommended!

add back monotone icon in safari. please add back monotone icon for safari like it was before 2.0 version,, now it no longer fits with other browser extentions

Does what it should. Does a really good job of making all sites dark. You can also customize the look of each site. There are some bugs where sites do not load but refreshing usually solves it. There is a bug when the extension is off, loading a site will flash it dark mode for 1 second. This app has access to all your browsing history and can see everything on the webpage, including passwords, credit card numbers etc. Do your research and decide if this app deserves your trust. Lastly, it would be nice if there was a feature to turn it on and off at specific times.

fantastic. what makes this so great? being able to enable/disable per site (and it remembers), plus the brightness and contrast controls

Once again the best "Dark Mode" extension you can find!. The dev finally fixed the big problems last updates had and he release the fix way faster than I expected so it proves he actually listen his costumers. So in short its by far the best dark mode extension you can find for Safari. except for very rare exceptions, websites will look very good by conserving their main design colours but only revert the white background/black text into dark background/white text. It will NOT just invert colours (at least in Dynamic mode) like most of other extension of this kind does. Highly recommend.

buggy as HELL. So I purchased this thinking it's a great little Safari extension for browsing based off positive reviews, but it doesn’t always work, like try 80 percent of the time. Sometimes it’ll darken, sometimes it doesn’t fully darken and leave the web page white… It needs major improvements and is quite buggy. If I had known it was this buggy, I would not have made the purchase. Waste of money. Edit - Since “updating” to the latest version 1.4.0, NOTHING was “fixed” and there was no “performance improvements” made that I noticed. Am I missing something? To the Developer… you might want to re-write the whole extension from the ground up again! Could have been a great little extension and has the potential to be… Edit #2 - Since updating to version 1.4.2, still having issues. One of them is I can not click on the toolbar to disable the extension, as well as YouTube videos are partially blacked out from the bottom half, but the top half is viewable.

Hotkeys don't work, icon is fugly. The hotkeys don't seem to work consistently and the toolbar icon is way too distracting. There needs to be monotone icon in keeping with the Safari standard. It does work well however. Use it if you can tolerate these two issues.

I love it!. Ever since Mojave came out with Dark Mode I have been drumming my fingers waiting to convert all my apps, and since a browser is a huge part of using your computer this was a biggie. I just installed in today and I am over the moon! I haven't used it for more then a couple of hours and so far I haven't found any sites where it doesn't work well. Great job and 5 stars from me :)

Works. Works

customize highlight color!. The lastest version of chrome version has added support for customizing highlight color. Really hope that safari can have the same experience as well! (or at least add an beta option?)

Awesome. Amazing app, I’ve been using this app on all my browsers and I just realized it exists on safari as well thank you for an amazing app keep up the good work people!

Pretty good, but lacking sync. This is a very nice dark theme extension, probably the best in terms of theming and customization, and it's nice that it's a universal purchase across all apple platforms, but until it has site list sync, it's a non starter for me. Having to repeatedly whitelist the same websites over and over across ipad, mac and iphone is a huge pain. Will be trying out noir, despite its higher costs and seperate purchases for Mac and ios.

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Lacking the ability to manage & sync site list. Unlike the chrome version, Dark Reader on Safari doesn't provide any options to manage the site list. You cannot manually add URLs to the whitelist or import/export/sync your configs across multiple devices.

Parity with Chrome Plugins. Great dark mode extensions for Safari, almost in parity with it's sibling Chrome extension. The missing link is the font override options. Still a 5 stars tho if you compare it to the rest of dark mode extension.

DIsappointed. Worked super well for a while but hasn't recieved any updates, at all, since I've purchased the app. Safari constantly has issues rendering pages with this extension enabled. Unfortunately, I have uninstalled it on all my devices because of the issues caused by the extension.

Better compared to Night Eye App. Faster effect!. Was hoping to have this work as some reviews were skewing my direction, but having a higher user base and some hope this dark mode app gets the job done, works smoothly and fast rendering. Still comfused as to extension saying reads sensitive info?

Near Perfection. This is the best dark mode extension I’ve used so far. Although, I wish images and videos were dimmed so they’re not brighter than the rest of the page.

High quality!! Just odd pricing.... The product thus far has been perfect. Every site I use looks wonderful and the plugin has great customisation. However, the plugin is free on other browsers. I am fine with paying money but 5 bucks is a high price considering its free on chrome and stuff.

Love it. Does it need a little work on sites? Sure, sometimes - but you can customize it however you want to For the majority of sites it's fine and definitely better than seeing all white when you're using Mojave at night. Keep up the great work, dev!

I love Dark Reader. It's the best there is for Safari as well as other browser platforms. It's available on Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Brave... My eyes "hurt" when looking at a webpage that is the traditional white background.

Works just as well as the desktop version. I’ve been the windows version for a while now and recently gotten this extension. It does the one thing I want, turn websites into dark mode. Especially with a true black option

Pretty good, but not consistant. As others have noted, for some sites, I have to turn it off, then back on to enable dark mode. If I refresh the webpage, I see the regular version of the page again. Somewhat annoying and I haven't gotten a response from the developer after sending an email.

Does the job superbly (especially compared to freebies). Tried using one of the freebie extensions, but didn't really work well. This does the job as well as can be asked, and maybe better.

Pretty great. Great extension! Would it be possible to add a whitelist feature? Ideally, I only want one particular website to be in dark mode and not affect any other site. UPDATE: YES!!!!!! Thank you so much Aliaksandr! Now I can apply dark mode to only the sites I want.

Can you add Detect existing dark mode on a site?. Working great but some sites already got dark mode and with this on it messed things up, can you add a way to detect if the website already have dark mode on and Dark Reader gets turned off when it do?

Try the one from windows edge and you won't be disappointed. I love the one from Edge, I like to have grey or brown or yellow background instead of black. Although it costs $4.99 for Apple version but we really have to support the developers!

Bought for better privacy as noted over other app but.... I read the privacy policy prior ot purchasing. "The Developer does not collect andy data from this app." HOWEVER... when installing I see this: "•Webpage Cotnents - Can read sensitive information from webpages, including, passwords numbers and credit cards. Can alter the appearance and behavior of webpages. This applies to all webpages. And: Browsing History Can see when you visit all webpages."

Thank you!. This was the fastest $5 has ever left my wallet! I have been using your browser extension for years! (Firefox FTW) Finally, I can get the same quality on my phone! Thank you. So much. :)

Good at what it does, with one caveat.. I use dark mode at night to help with eye strain. This extension is good at what it does, but there is too much blue in the converted pages, and indeed, the extension GUI itself. Blue light interferes with circadian rhythm and sleep quality, and is the last color an app like this should use. Would much prefer red accents/hyperlinks, but I don't see a way of changing this. Would be a 5-star app otherwise.

2 problems that bother me. There are two usage problems that bother me: 1. Can I choose to reduce the brightness of the picture on the page while turning on Dark Mode? 2 Some websites will show normal mode when turning the next page, and then quickly enter dark mode, which makes the page flickering uncomfortable!

Nice but needs improvemnt.. For most basic sites, this works. I find issues with sites having more complex, centent. Sometimes form fields and boarders cannot be seen. Also, I do a lot of editing on wordpress and need a reiliable dark mode extensions for multiple browsers. this one gets weird with Safari, and sometimes won't let me load my wordpress site. Works fine with other browsers though

Disappointed. Switched to Safari for the main browser w/ the new macOS update. Paid for this extension only to find out it's got less features than the free Chrome extension: No ability to change fonts (I used Helvetica because it's easiest to read on a screen) No ability to switch between filter, filter , static, dynamic. On Safari I'm only given filter and dynamic. No text stroke––I didn't use this, but it's still missing. I will say the app animations & rounded rectangles on Safari are much better than the Chrome extension.

One of the best tools for browsing. The price was well worth it. It really helps with my eye when I have to spend hours on my devise. Thank you for this app!

Do I have to pay again for the phone?. I am enjoying this app, but I am a little concerned. I paid for the app on my mac and was able to download it without paying again on my ipad. But when I go to add the extension to my phone, it is trying to charge me... Is this correct? Am I supposed to pay again? If so I dont know about that... I will update the review if I get some resolve...

Does not work on some sites. On the reddit site, the main background will go dark and the text will change to white text but the background of the text box says white, so I'm looking at white text on a white background. On the arch linux site, Dark Reader doesn't work at all. I use these sites all the time, making this a waste of my money.

Great, but not as good as Chrome's. This is a great extension! I'm moving to Safari from Chrome, and this was a fantastic (5/5) extension there. Unfortunately, some websites (GitHub, etc) show that this Safari release lags behind Chrome's, which is unfortunate. I'm hoping the author can get them up to speed!

Functinal and One-time Purchase. Great. In these days, I am tired of subscriptions. Good to see this extension not only functional but also allows one-time purchase. I love this extension.

Bug when using facebook on safari iOS. The facebook website shows a white bar on top when dark readers active. I can submit a video to show it.

Best Dark Reader. This is the best dark reader I've found. It just works well on a variety of website layouts and formats. The color customization options are great as well.

Overall great, but fails with Gmail. Was working great for a while, but the past month or so it has been failing on Gmail, making it almost unusable there, which is too bad because it's the one tab I have open the most.

Happy so far. I got tired of Safari not working with night mode so I bought this. I'm happy with it. It does what it's supposed to do. I would reccomend it to people who use night mode and want to block blinding bright websites.

mac version is weak comparing to chrome and even IOS. macos safari version is pretty basic comparing to DarkReader for Chrome and even the new Dark Reader for IOS. It does not synchronize settings with IOS or with other mac devices, it has limited options. Given it's not free, I can't give it more than 2 stars despite I Love DarkReader for Chrome and for IOS

Great Extension now for Safari. I don't know WHY this developer is getting so much flack, I've had GREAT experiences on Chrome and Firefox with this extension. This is a way to support the Dev and have the same experience on Safari. What's not to love? The "cautions" in Preferences > Extensions are the same for ANY EXTENSION that manipulates CSS. If y'all are so paranoid then learn to harden your Macs. That means Little Snitch, DetectX, UXProtect, LockRattler and other tools of that nature. The attacks on this dev are UNWARRANTED. If you liked this on other browsers you'll love it here. Tweak away, it works as good as it does elsewhere.

FINALLY! worth the money. I’ve tried all the apps different browsers and finally found this one that properly does the dark mode. And to be able to set my color how I want omgggg so good. Hyperweb caused too many bugs same with noir.

2021. I am also seeing that you have to pay again on ios, even though it is universal. The developer said that I won't be charged, but app store is asking me to confirm payment, so how does that work? Do I click pay or not?

Available for Safari!!. I had stopped using Safari specifically becuase it didn't support Dark Reader, and this has become a must for my web browsing. Now that my favoriate extension is available, goodbye to Chrome and hello again to my favorite browser!

Best Dark Reader. Extremely excited to see the best website darkening tool come to Safari! There's still some work to bring it to feature parity with Chrome, but my eyes are already shedding tears of gratitude to you for bringing it over!

Found a site that isn’t turning dark. I love this app however, there is one website that is not going into Dark Mode that is the Chicago Sun Times. Could you guys check it out and see if you can have an update so the site is in dark mode?

Stop Putting your Monitor on Reader Mode. With this extension, you can stop having to lower your monitor brightness or put it on the ugly reader modes. Lowers eye strain without sacrificing picture quality. Haven't experienced any bugs so far. Hope it stays that way!

Need to follow with system. Currently its either always on or always off. Please make it so that it follows ios settings Even better: give us an option to manually schedule

Great tool. Well worth the money.. I’m a software engineer looking out for the long term health of my eyes. This extension absolutely nails it on 99% of websites and makes it easy to disable on the exceptions that don’t. Great product, and one I will happily financially support.

Developer abandoned app?. Great app, in fact its the only one with these features, but no update in 10 months, sites are starting to break when using dark mode.

Excellent, dependable product. I've been using this extension for at least a couple of years now. It does just what it claims, does it tastefully, is dependable (not buggy), and is intuitive to use. Thank you.

Great cross platform extension. Bought this extension for my Mac a year ago and am extremely happy with its performance. Was positively surprised to see my earlier purchase allowed me to download the extension for free also on my iPhone and iPad. Thank you to Alexander, the developer, for his work and for being so helpful by emails.

If you use dark mode, you want this extension. This works great for most sites, there are a few that, due to their design and layout don't work as well with a dark mode, but you can easily turn those off.

More like "Headache" Reader instead of Dark Reader. This extension works THE BEST on every other browser EXCEPT for Safari, literally I cant even count how many times it has given me a headache just because it either breaks the Site, or Brightens the page instead of darkening or The filter mode as to be manually toggled, but Wait !! its not like this version simply had a persite config option that would spare atleast some of my brain cells from this torture.

The best dark mode extention. I tested all other dark mode extentions but none works like this. The speed,the colors of dark mode is the best. doesn't make websites ugly and mostly works really good that you can not distinguish between native websites dark modes or the extension dark mode because it's really do a good job in terms of coloring.

Back to the best Dark Mode for Safari. Edit: As of 1.3.1 you can now actually scroll down to change the Sepia whereas previously there were no options to scroll to. Original: Loved the extension until the 1.3.0 update. Now everything is a variation of Sepia no matter how I adjust the contrast an brightness.

The toggle function does not work half the time. The dark reader icon located next to the url doesn't open half the time. I have reinstalled dark reader and updated safari but the issue still hasn't been fixed. The only reason you would need to use the icon is to turn off dark reader mode. I have to do this because on half of the websites I go to, the text remains dark and I am unable to know what I am reading or typing without highlighting the text. Garbage app.

The best extension for any browser. I use Dark Reader at work on Chrome. Thrilled to have it for Safari on my mobile devices. Such a wonderful tool! Sincere thank you to the devs.

Great already, fantastic on iOS and iPadOS–just one request!. Excellent mobile implementation, really completes the browsing experience. One request: iCloud syncing of site preferences. I have to reconfigure sites on four devices now, a good problem, but a problem nonetheless.

Feature Request: Per-Site Theme Settings. Everything else is perfect, but I would love to designate specific themes for specific websites, instead of constantly switching back and forth for frequently used sites.