YouTube Dark Theme

CRX ID
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Status
Live on Store
Description from extension meta

A light, dark theme for YouTube with easy toggle on and off and scheduling support. This theme is based on the default YouTube theme

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YouTube Dark Theme
Description from store

"Dark Theme for YouTube" extension converts YouTube theme to a highly customizable dark charcoal/blue theme. This extension is built on top of the default YouTube theme (native dark theme) so it is very light-weighted compare to using themes injected by Stylish or Stylus extensions.

Features:
Turn on and off from the action button to switch between light and dark themes
Accepts scheduling to turn on only on the specified period
Customize default color scheme
Inject custom CSS to alter the default theme (change font-size or font-family for instance)

How does this extension work?
This extension alters a cookie globally to turn the dark theme on and off. It also injects a lite script to the YouTube pages to alter the color scheme of the root element. In oppose to the other similar extensions, there is no resetting of the default theme or inverting the white theme with an inversion filter. Both of these methods are computationally inefficient. Instead, this extension asks YouTube to turn the native dark theme and only alter the global CSS variables to alter the colors.
Note that this method only works if the product supports native coloring. Some Google products do not yet support this feature.

Privacy Policy:
This extension does not send or receive any data to any server whatsoever.

Bug Report:
Please either use the commenting section of the FAQs page or the GitHub page for bug reporting.

Change Log:
0.2.0
Use the built-in dark theme (Material Design only)

Latest reviews

Fresh Collection 2025-10-03

Working fine and best

Fire nutter 2025-02-22

thank god for this extention

Anas Amasood 2024-08-26

its already on your youtube page here how you can change it..... Click your profile picture . Click Appearance . Select "Dark theme" to use the dark theme setting. OR. Turn on Light theme or Use device theme........

Youssef 2024-08-04

omg this is so good my eyes is not hurt me any more

Midnight Orchid 2024-06-23

It doesn't stay on! The moment you click a video to watch, it turns itself off.

Anna Paulowna 2024-06-10

Doesn't work.

John Coleman 2024-05-26

nice. dont change anything pls

Masonutb5 BG 2024-04-30

My eyes was literally burning Thanks :)

garrett 2024-02-21

literally nothing happened

Mehmet Akif Çalışkan 2023-09-01

keni kendine kapanıyo

นันทพงษ์ ใจสว่าง 2023-04-08

สวยมากๆ

Masked Guy 2023-01-31

The background color setting in the options is broken, it only changes the mic button (next to search bar) but does not change the background. I can't give this extension more than 3 stars until this bug gets fixed.

Masked Guy 2023-01-31

The background color setting in the options is broken, it only changes the mic button (next to search bar) but does not change the background. I can't give this extension more than 3 stars until this bug gets fixed.

MILAGRO LUJAN ECHAVARRIA 2022-11-14

Mmmmm de dudosa prosedencia no me deja colocar un tema en una aplicacion y segundo en ves de hacer tanto espamento x que no mejor actualizar las aplicaciones de sitios web que trae el celular con la obcion de temas y que traiga la obcion de personalisar con fotos de galeria y colores hubiera sigo mejor esa idea en ves de estar descargando aplicaciones que no sirven ya no adtos para celulares androi es una pena ☹️🤨

Ashelia Dalmasca 2022-10-29

Youtube's built in dark mode suddenly stopped working even with Chrome being updated and even the appearance settings disappeared from the menu so I needed a fix and only this one WORKED for me! THANK YOU!

Evan Moreno 2022-08-25

Looks good when it wants to work but it decided it wants to be off by default, meaning I have to click the extension itself in the extensions menu every time I want youtube to be dark mode. If it didn't do this it'd be great but it's basically useless as an extension to have youtube be dark by default

Evan Moreno 2022-08-25

Looks good when it wants to work but it decided it wants to be off by default, meaning I have to click the extension itself in the extensions menu every time I want youtube to be dark mode. If it didn't do this it'd be great but it's basically useless as an extension to have youtube be dark by default

Ross Valencia 2022-08-21

muy bueno, lo recomiendo completamente.

Simon Green 2022-06-21

The best Dark Theme, not black, very dark grey. So much better than other extensions.

Simon Green 2022-06-21

The best Dark Theme, not black, very dark grey. So much better than other extensions.

Tataie 2022-05-27

Works perfect. Text is all readable

Tataie 2022-05-27

Works perfect. Text is all readable

SongCat 2022-05-13

It didn't work. As simple as that.

SongCat 2022-05-13

It didn't work. As simple as that.

Patrick Kuczynski 2022-04-04

Works so well I forget that it isn't just the default function of the browser. Saves my eyes from additional strain. Highly recommend.

Patrick Kuczynski 2022-04-04

Works so well I forget that it isn't just the default function of the browser. Saves my eyes from additional strain. Highly recommend.

XRYS 2022-03-30

the best

XRYS 2022-03-30

the best

Ali Hussain 2022-03-06

Why is it not working?

Ali Hussain 2022-03-06

Why is it not working?

Jakub Zieliński 2022-03-05

Was working flawlessly since I installed it, until today. Now it just doesn't work at all no matter what I do. Perhaps it got broken by a youtube update?

Jakub Zieliński 2022-03-05

Was working flawlessly since I installed it, until today. Now it just doesn't work at all no matter what I do. Perhaps it got broken by a youtube update?

SeaBreeze 2022-03-05

doesn't even work

SeaBreeze 2022-03-05

doesn't even work

fr1nd8 2022-03-04

aq you tube yapağınişn ben bu ne aq birden koyu tema gitti geri gelmiyor

braden 2022-03-04

It was working fine for a bit then suddenly it turns off and now never works again. i even redownloaded it. it resized me browser be it self. idk this thing is doing now

braden 2022-03-04

It was working fine for a bit then suddenly it turns off and now never works again. i even redownloaded it. it resized me browser be it self. idk this thing is doing now

Mahdidou DJAMEL 2022-03-02

excellent

Mahdidou DJAMEL 2022-03-02

excellent

Nitipon Singlor 2022-02-14

Great. Your eyes friendly

Nitipon Singlor 2022-02-14

Great. Your eyes friendly

Al Habib 2021-11-11

I love it!

Al Habib 2021-11-11

I love it!

Gia Bảo Phạm 2021-08-28

ok, it work, but i can turn youtube dark theme without this, still helpful

Gia Bảo Phạm 2021-08-28

ok, it work, but i can turn youtube dark theme without this, still helpful

Suad Softic 2021-08-24

Perfect!

Suad Softic 2021-08-24

Perfect!

The Yuri Theorist 2021-08-16

Works well but when I use Youtube premium it gets disabled and won't turn on

The Yuri Theorist 2021-08-16

Works well but when I use Youtube premium it gets disabled and won't turn on

J. Ellis “Jermz” Wood 2021-06-07

This works perfect! I have used this addon for over a year without any problems.

Statistics

Installs
70,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
Rating
4.22 (222 votes)
Last update
2022-12-27
Version 0.4.1
Languages