About Night Eye
Night Eye is a commercial dark mode extension from Promotino OOD, a company based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Like Dark Reader it converts websites on the fly, and it converts only small images and icons, leaving larger media alone. Its pitch is polish rather than openness: you pay if you want it on every site.
It offers dark, filtered and normal modes, adjustable brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth and dimming, scheduling, and settings for a single site or every site. It also darkens online PDFs in its Safari app. The Chrome build is listed on the Chrome Web Store as a Featured extension, and it is also on Edge, Firefox and Safari.
The catch is the pricing. The free Lite plan covers one browser and five websites of your choice, and new users get three months of Pro without a card. After that, Pro and Pro Max are yearly subscriptions and Ultimate is a one-time purchase, each limited by the number of browsers you can use. Night Eye says it does not monitor or store browsing activity and shows no ads, but the source code is not published. If Dark Reader does not suit you and you will pay, it is a credible alternative.
Pros and cons
- Dark, filtered and normal modes with scheduling
- Runs on Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari
- Free Lite plan and a three-month Pro trial without a card
- Says pages are processed locally, with no ads even in Lite
- Free plan covers one browser and up to five websites
- Closed source, unlike Dark Reader and Stylus
- Paid plans are limited by number of browsers
Permissions
On Firefox it asks for access to all websites, your tabs and the active tab, plus storage and a context menu. It needs this to restyle every page you open.
