Dark Reader for Safari

• Price: $4.99

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.3 280 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Best 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.

   TheOtherOtherGuy · 31 Jul 2026

2. 5/5Essential 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.

   darukaru · 31 Jul 2026

3. 5/5My 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.

   dubya · 31 Jul 2026

4. 5/5You 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!

   BobYourUncle · 31 Jul 2026

5. 5/5WHAT 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!

   Dater519 · 31 Jul 2026

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