Dark Reader for Safari
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User Reviews for Dark Reader for Safari
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!
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Description
This eye-care extension enables night mode creating dark themes for websites on the fly. Dark Reader inverts bright colors making them high contrast and easy to read at night. It perfectly suits to system dark mode.
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