Reliable dark mode for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Gmail, and any website. Easy on the eyes, day or night.
Users
70
+13 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
4
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#95K
#79K among extensions
Version
1.5.0
updated 5 Aug 2026
Users
monthly, 3 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:70 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 3 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:4 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Duskmode – Dark Mode
Duskmode adds a clean, reliable dark mode to any website — including the ones
most dark-mode extensions get wrong, like Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive,
and Gmail. It's easy on your eyes during late nights and bright offices alike.
Instead of maintaining fragile per-site styles, Duskmode intelligently inverts
each page and corrects the colors so text is readable and real photos and video
still look natural. It's fast and light — one CSS filter, no per-page style
analysis, no CPU drain or page-load lag. Sites that already ship a dark theme
are detected and left alone, instead of being flipped back to light. PDFs you
preview in Google Drive go properly dark too — pages, thumbnails, and comments
included.
Files you open from your own device go dark as well — local HTML pages, text
files, folder listings, and PDFs — under a single "Local files" switch. PDFs
open in Duskmode's dark viewer: Chrome's own toolbar and thumbnails, kept at
their normal colors, around fully dark pages — print, zoom, and page
navigation all work exactly as you know them.
Everything lives in one glanceable popup: a single dial that shows at a glance
whether dark mode is on and why (including when your system theme or a
schedule is driving it), with themes and per-site control one look away and
all fine-tuning one tap deeper.
Features
• One global toggle, plus a per-site override for the page you're on
• A glanceable popup — one dial shows whether dark mode is on and why
• Keyboard shortcut to toggle: Alt+Shift+D (rebindable, shown in the popup)
• Skips sites that already have a dark theme — force it per-site if you prefer
• Follow your system's light/dark theme, or set a time schedule
• Four tint themes: Midnight, Slate, Forest, and Dusk
• Brightness, Contrast, and Warmth sliders to fine-tune the look
• Site Overrides list — review and remove every per-site choice
• Toolbar badge shows the current state at a glance
• Settings sync between your devices via your browser profile
• Works on Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, and Gmail
• PDFs previewed in Google Drive — pages, thumbnails, and comments all darken
• Local files from your own device: HTML, text, folder listings, and PDFs
• A dark PDF viewer — Chrome's own toolbar and thumbnails around dark pages
• Fast and private: no account, no tracking, zero network requests
• Fully self-contained — no third-party code, fonts, or images
Honest limits
Browsers never allow extensions on chrome:// pages or the Web Store — no
extension can darken those (the popup tells you when you're on such a page).
Local files need Chrome's "Allow access to file URLs" switched on for the
extension; the popup links straight to it. In the dark PDF viewer the scrollbar
and transient panels (menus, the annotation sidebar) stay light, and pictures
inside a PDF are inverted along with the page. Media inside embedded frames can
occasionally appear inverted; that's the trade-off that keeps embedded frames
dark at all.
Privacy
Duskmode collects no data and makes no network requests. All your settings stay
on your device; syncing between your own devices happens only through your
browser's built-in sync. Duskmode is an independent project, not affiliated
with or endorsed by Google. "Google Docs", "Sheets", "Slides", "Drive", and
"Gmail" are trademarks of Google LLC, used only to describe the sites the
extension works on.