DocsAfterDark
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CRX ID
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Status
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Description from extension meta
Beyond dark mode for Google Docs
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Description from store
Customize the look of Google Docs with a modern dark mode and a dynamic, colorful light mode.
Easily switch between dark and light mode for any document without modifying the original project. Access customization settings in the extension option menu, which can be accessed by clicking on the extension icon in the browser toolbar.
Customize the accent color using the hue slider in the options menu, which is used to set the shades of color in light mode.
With the invert option, document content (excluding some elements, such as images) will be rendered in a comfortable dark mode. By disabling the document border option, documents will blend into the background to create a seamless workspace.
To temporarily toggle dark mode on/off, click on the button in the bottom left corner of the page. Sometimes this button may block other elements, such as the word count widget. When this occurs, enable the Raise Button toggle in the options menu. This button can be hidden entirely in the options menu.
The global toggle in the options menu can be used to disable/enable the extension.
The source code, binary releases, and release notes are available on GitHub at https://github.com/waymondrang/DocsAfterDark.
If you enjoy using DocsAfterDark and would like to support its development, please consider donating on Buy Me a Coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/waymondrang.
Latest reviews
- Ethan Mumma
- Best Dark Mode I've found so far! Previous ones were either a free trial that eventually asked for money, or did other things in the background that they didn't mention and that I didn't want (like pinning Google search trends every time I launch my browser; why would I want that?). This one just does what it says, which should be the bare minimum, but is actually out of the ordinary now.
- Kerry Paradise
- 20 Mins later & 10 YT videos, I figured out you have to refresh the docs page you are on even if you enable and save it. Please add that to your description! lol
- Cattywampus
- Also inverts/darkens/grayscales images
- Cristian Borrero
- Works really good.
- Weary
- I love this extension so much. I like how there's a switch button to toggle it off, and I love how you can raise it to be above the word count. Excellent extension!
- Upala Bhowmik
- the custom color does not work...which is why I tried this one out...RIP
- Lewis Johnson
- Pretty nice. Has lots of room for customization. My biggest complaint: the "add fonts" dialogue is illegible.
- hannarren
- just glitched the entire chrome browser, idk if just me
- Michael Doleman
- Dark mode seems to work, but nothing else does. The idiotic addition of the unremovable little emoji in the lower left corner interferes with word count and makes it nonfunctional -- why would you do that?
- Elisa Chiarotto
- Works very well and it is easily customizable!
- Natalie Thomas
- Perfect for reducing eyestrain and looks wonderful!
- Michael Bielski
- Oh Thank God! My eyes stopped hurting almost instantly!
- Samira Urzua
- I love the extension but if my document is pageless with a background color it will overwrite the background instead of showing the one I selected on google docs's options, even on default. Which kinda ruins it for me. Selection other options (dark ones) rather than default will invert images which also ruins it for me. I love it but I can't use it, I will change the review if fixed. (any of the two)
- Jenna Bratcher
- Only dark mode works. Blend, shade, and custom doesn't work at all.
- Mihajlo Stankovic
- It works perfectly fine, would be nice if you can toggle off invert for images in google docs
- Sean
- Darkens the Google Docs interface with options for inverting the color of the document itself. EXACTLY what I was looking for.
- Juli R
- Doing a study guide with a lot of writing really messed up my eyes, was looking for a medium grey option, my eyes thank you!
- Alan Hughes
- I don't know if it is possible, but it would be great if each document could remember its settings, instead of one setting for all documents.
- Alexandre Rodrigues
- THANK YOU SO MUCH MY EYES WERE NEEDING IT. FIVE FREACKING STARS. THANK YOU.
- Tony Adkins
- Had Zero effect on Google Sheets.
- Chloe
- The best dark mode extension for google docs by a mile
- Colin Eberly
- Great except for some issues in sidebars, like for instance image options, there is a white container box for those options that should be adjusted for dark mode.
- That One Acidic Phoenix
- Custom no invert dark mode works without messing with photos! just got to change the text color. Thank youu. You may have to refresh the page if it doens't seem to be doing anything as that is what i had to do.
- Mariah Robinson
- This is the best extension for google doc dark mode so far. I'm very pleased with it!
- Palace Wholesale
- Not currently fully functional as described. The Custom setting has no effect. Black and white are only options for the actual canvas of the document.
- Anantesh Mohapatra
- This actually works and looks good. It also works for the Docs PWA, which is nice.
- Luscinia Nightengale
- Honestly, after trying two other extensions for Docs specifically, as well as the Night-Eye extension (which I love, but does make it hard to read highlighted text) I wasn't expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised. Not only does this work, it looks near-identical to how Night-Eye does it, except without the blown-out text highlighting. I can't recommend this enough, especially if you use Night-Eye on google, since it thematically looks identical, just optimized for google docs.
- Jo Jo
- Beautiful, now when I type memoirs on how my victims went and their final words I can preserve my eyes. Thank you!
- Napalm
- S tier extension. Exactly what I was looking for
- NapazTrix
- States "With the invert option, document content (excluding some elements, such as images) will be rendered in a comfortable dark mode." which is not true, it still inverts images no matter the settings, if you want a dark document.
- FWYTYK
- The only one that actually works. Lifesaver
- omer latif
- It is really nice but the custom does not work. The info thing is also useless; it doesn't tell u anything. Get the custom option to actually work and I'll def use this all the time and give a better rating.
- Clara Ramirez Grossi de Oliveira
- This is exactly what I was looking for! Perfect shade, perfect brightness, perfect contrast. It doesn't only stop google docs from hurting my eyes, it also looks reaaally nice (which was what bugged me about the other extensions, they looked bad and kinda cheap). Love it.
- Siddhant Choyal
- Absolute d*gsh*t. Works somewhat but if you select the whole row/column/page to modify a property, it's becomes white along with the text so nothing is readable. So flipping annnoying!!@!!
- Sean Reo
- Sort of works, but the ability to change the color of the page itself seems broken. I've tried everything, it's only stark white or full black. I really downloaded this so I could set my colors how it looks in the "Custom" sample image, but it just seems broken? Others on the GitHub have noticed this as well. Will happily change my review once this is fixed, but it's pretty much the entire reason I downloaded the extension and what separates it from similar options. Running on MacOS Tahoe M2 Macbook Pro, Google Chrome Version 138.0.7204.101
- Melonpan
- Very good! it works very well thank you
- Uh Ryder
- saved my eyes
- 1236
- omgg sooo good ,best extension for dark theme for google docs i have used so far,zero bugs
- Antonia Cajigal
- Wonderful tool. worked right away, very minimalist and detailed.
- Ryan Tipps
- Works great! Only downside is it inverts the color of emojis 😢
- milo
- Amazing, but would be even better if it also darkened the home page for google docs!!!
- Emiliano Biancotti
- Doesn't work on sheets
- Nathan Esaias
- It's good, the only problem with it is colors don't show up so I can't see which color I am using unless I look at the top. And why are the only 2 colors White and Black with shades of Gray?
- Betina Tsvetkova
- edit April 2025: doesn't work in google sheets. best extension for G docs ever. I have tried others, but this one provides the exact color and stuff that fits my needs. THANKS
- Leonie
- I LOVE IT! THANKS!
- Anthony Miglino
- Midnight is perfect
- Yaroslav Smirnov
- Too dark. I don't want to mess with custom styles + there's no explanation how to do this. Just give me more option like Apple does in Safari with different reader styles.
- Krish D
- mad helpful
- Danish!
- Perfect, keep it up, please don't ruin it.
- Henrique Matos
- This is the best one I could find. I love that we can change Google's UI to dark mode without affecting the document's colors.