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WOW Dark Reader - Universal Dark Mode

by Wow Extensions · Accessibility
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 16 Oct 2026

A clean, customizable dark mode for every website. Features 6 color themes, custom brightness, contrast, and schedule controls.

Users
25
+13 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
2
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#139K
#116K among extensions
Version
2.0.0
updated 12 Aug 2026

Users

monthly, 4 months
01225Jun 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 25 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 4 months
012Jun 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 2 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About WOW Dark Reader - Universal Dark Mode

WOW Dark Reader – Universal Dark Mode Make websites easier to view in low-light environments with a customizable dark mode for Chrome. WOW Dark Reader automatically applies a dark theme to webpages, helping reduce bright backgrounds and giving you more control over how websites look at night. Choose from preset themes or fine-tune brightness, contrast, warmth, darkness, and grayscale to create a reading experience that works for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌙 Dark Mode for Websites Apply dark mode to webpages with a single click. • Automatically applies a dark theme to websites • Works across a wide range of webpages • Choose from multiple dark color palettes • Turn dark mode on or off globally • Create different settings for individual websites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 6 Dark Mode Themes Choose a preset that matches your preferred style: • OLED Black – Deep black for dark interfaces • Midnight Grey – Neutral charcoal tones • Warm Sepia – Warm tones for comfortable reading • Cyber Blue – Cool blue-tinted dark theme • Forest Pine – Deep green tones • Espresso – Warm brown dark theme ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ Fine-Tune Your Display Adjust the appearance of webpages instead of relying on a single dark mode setting. • Darkness: 60%–100% • Brightness: 50%–150% • Contrast: 60%–140% • Warmth: 0%–80% • Grayscale: 0%–100% Create a dark mode that suits your screen and reading preferences. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤖 Smart Website Detection WOW Dark Reader can detect websites that already use a dark design and leave them unchanged, helping prevent unnecessary color inversion. You can also enable the Bold Text Booster to improve text visibility on dark backgrounds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 Automatic Dark Mode Schedule Choose when dark mode should be active: • Always On • Custom Schedule – choose your own start and end times • System Match – follow your operating system's appearance setting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Website-Specific Controls Control dark mode globally or customize individual websites. • Enable or disable dark mode for the current website • Create domain-specific settings • Keep selected websites in their original appearance • Use the global switch to quickly enable or disable dark mode ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ Keyboard Shortcut Toggle dark mode on the active tab instantly with: Alt + Shift + D ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 Privacy First WOW Dark Reader is designed with privacy in mind. • No account required • No browsing history collection • No tracking • No personal data collection • No data is transmitted to external servers The extension processes webpage appearance locally in your browser. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Getting Started 1. Install WOW Dark Reader. 2. Click the extension icon in Chrome. 3. Enable dark mode. 4. Choose a preset theme or adjust the display settings. 5. Optionally create website-specific settings or a schedule. That's it. Your preferred dark mode settings are ready whenever you browse.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
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30 days+13+108.3%00.00

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where WOW Dark Reader - Universal Dark Mode appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
dark forest#45−3

Version history

2 versions recorded
2.0.012 Aug 2026
1.0.025 Jun 2026

Details

Category
Accessibility
First seen
25 Jun 2026
Size
44 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
gist.github.com
Extension ID
omddpgnmmokaoiknabbgipiomcehbkip

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 2
Permissions
storageactiveTab

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