Darker Reviews

I was looking for a quick way to have a to have a dark mode for google docs. This looked like it would work, and it seemed to for a moment. But I almost immediately got a JavaScript popup in every Safari window: "❤️Are you enjoying this app?" with Cancel and OK. Cancel doesn't seem to do anything - the popup just happens again immediately. OK opens App Store to leave a review. For whatever reason, this insta-crashes Safari for me. So here is my review: Don't get this Safari extension until the developer fixes this issue!!

I wanted to like Darker. Unfortunately, the moment I activated this app, a question popped up asking if I liked Darker ... I clicked 'cancel' because I hadn't gotten a chance to yet use Darker . It remained stuck (disappearing, then returning to the question immediately every time I relaunched Safari). The question remained persistent (and insistent) regardless of whether I clicked the cancel or OK button. I ultimately gave up and removed the extension... but the question remained after I deleted the extension. Interestingly enough, the question functionality worked correctly when I clicked "ok" this time... so I left this review.

To be clear, I WANTED to like Darker. The problem I encountered is so profound as to make Darker completely and totally unusable. If you fix Darker , I will try it again...

Seriously - they won't stop. If you restart and Restore Windows from Last Session expect to get 742 pop-ups BEGGING you to like it. It's rendered Safari unusable. That's not hyperbole, I literally can't interact with the browser because as soon as I click Okay, or Cancel, the LIKE ME POP-UP just COMES BACK. I can't get past it's relentless need for approval. Between that and my own incessant need for approval, I am rendered useless.

Will be uninstalling ASAP, then will do a clean install of the entire macOS just to make sure it NEVER ASKS ME AGAIN. Then I'm off to a mindwalk to hopefully understand my place in the cosmos and achieve some meaningul shred of peace.

I used Darker for a few days and it was fine. This morning I started getting a pop up in Safari that said “all of your free times are up, you need to purchase a membership to unlock.” There was no indication of where the pop up was coming from. Pressing cancel only led to the pop up coming right back. Then Safari crashed completely and I was unable to use it at all. I wasted an hour and a half dealing with apple support until we finally narrowed down the problem to this stupid extension. STAY AWAY.

I read that this is Darker to get if you have medical problems with high contrast. I installed Darker and enabled it under extensions but when I tried to use it, the background is still bright white within most websites. I opened ‘settings’ and see a whole list of color settings. The problem I found was that you have to pay first to change any of them. There are no dimming options unless you pay first. I tried using day and night modes with the same results.

I don’t see any usability without paying first. After reading the Apple Store description, I don’t see any mention about having to ‘pay before use’. This is a bit of deceptive advertising.

As for me, I try most apps before I pay for them. I don’t like to pay first and hope I like it and that it fills a need. I will pay first if I have history with a product and have found a use for it. I don’t like these little surprises from anyone I do business with.

Good luck to you, I will not be trying or buying your app. For those who ‘buy and try’, I hope you’re not disappointed with Darker.

Just my two cents worth.

Darker is the right price, and generally works. I found that it doesn't work on some sites, and on other sites with Darker enabled I couldn't select text and do other things, so it seems to have trouble with certain kinds of content. I don't know if it's a certain type of advertisement that makes it slow way down, but it doesn't seem ready for prime time unless you only want to use it on certain sites you know it works with.

The extension works well for what it's designed to do - provide a dark read mode across most websites. On that basis, I would give it a five-star rating. But when I installed it I was immediately prompted to rate, and no matter how many times I clicked, it would not accept my rating, forcing me to force-quit Safari. That's really bad behavior, and made me wonder whether I wanted to keep it installed. Go easy on the rate prompts, please!

Darker does a nice job with color schemes. It actually renders in better dark mode colors than Dark Mode for Google - the "Dark Reader" app with the darth vader icon.

I have seen system slowness and even a Safari crash due to the application. In addition I have seen the issue where I get this QUICK little burst of pure white light before the site renders - honestly that pretty much renders a dark mode useless because if I get hit with that burst of BRIGHT WHITE light that screws my eyes up indefinitely and I think others would agree. For a dark mode to work, it needs to render a website as dark RIGHT when it loads - not just when it loads from cache. Probably will move on to other service providers.

Every time I launch a new window, I'm prompted with their pop-up to rate the plugin. I havenn't even had enough time to form an opinion about it to give an accurate rating.

Overall I think it works well, but some sites cause it to make bad contrasts where the original CSS is prefered. Having someway to manually tweak these contrast issues would be great (or if there is a way already, make it more discoverable/intuitive).

Love it, works great. The color scheme it uses is nice. There is just a very annoying popup asking if you are enjoying the product. This morning it was re-appearing so quickly that I couldn't do anything in Safari. I kept clicking that I am enjoying it and it would just reappear within 1 second. I thought I was going to have to force quit safari.

this app gets the job done. I makes everything Dark Mode, which is great. The only thing that is super annoying is the pop-up that keeps apeparing basically begging for a review.

5/5 because it works as expected. 4/5 because the pop ups gotta stop.

Will update if pop up keeps appearing after review.

I tried this a week ago, and it did not darken any websites at all. Followed the steps on Darker and all that. Left a feedback note with that info, and well, just gave up on it.
Lo and behold, a day later I recieved a response to the feedback, suggested a setting. I downloaded and tried it all again, and this time with patience because Darker is pretty slow (I get about 850mps here and this ipad was getting about 650 in the room i was in when i did this, so it was Darker that was slow, not any devices or speed here).
It all works great after this second attempt! Webites in darkmode in Safari! No blinding lights anymore when surfing in dim lighting at night! Thank you!

I have to sit behind a computer for 12 hours every day. This is the only app that works seamlessly without screwing up the web interface or layout of any site or document I open up.
I recommend Darker a pair of blue light glasses if you don't want your eyes to feel like a dry-sponge at the end of the day.v

works as intended. can turn off for individual sites easily on the fly.

Just wish it would stop putting "❤️ Are you enjoying this app?" on every webpage. I click "Ok" and here I am. Let's hope this actually keeps the extension ffrom hijacking my train of thought every 30 seconds. Never used to do this..

For the most part i've not had any issues with the extension. Does what is supposed to on most websites and for websites that already have dark mode enabled, I can simply toggle it off for that particular website!

The only thing you'll get is an annoying popup to rate it here until you actually submit a review here.

Is one of the best apps I have on my iPhone.
Darker it’s essential for people with light sensitivity with there visual acuity it is quite literally the difference between night and day how I use my iPhone although now I can use it seamlessly whenever I wish with a much more comfortable and calming pain-free, eyeball viewing, web browsin experience,

Been using the Dark Reader for Safari for a long time now and very disapointed that there are some websites that does not darken. Also, websites that uses "capita" for secure logins does not work properly. SO FRUSTRATING especially if you use a password manager.

I tried this app - Dark Mode for Safari, and so far, no problems! this app - Dark Mode for Safari works GRREAT for us!! We recommend using this app - Dark Mode for Safari!!

Darker works wonders I am so happy I finally found an app that is FREE but works just as i imagined it to be! Darker protects my eyes at night and even during the day which was my goal while finding an app. It meets all the expectations I had in mind which is really refreshing and a great start to using Darker! I want to say thank you for creating such a great app that is accessible to all users. I really reccommend Darker to anyone looking for a clean experience for safari!

I love that there is a this app button next to the search bar so I can easily toggle this app on/off. this app doesn't work with .pdf's in web browser (the page is blank). But since there's a handy quick toggle, it's not much of an issue to just flip it off when I'm viewing a .pdf. It's worked perfectly for every web page. No ads except forcing me to leave this review after using it for about a month. But, hey, it's a fantastic add-on that i definitely plan to keep using, so 5 stars. :)

Works well and unlike other darkness app’s it actually allows some images and text to be more defined. I was using another app for a while and could never see my Gmail but with Dark I can fully see everything even with the application turned on.