What Night Eye is

Night Eye converts bright pages into dark themes by analyzing page elements rather than inverting everything, leaving photos and video intact. A filtered mode keeps a site's original colors while adjusting brightness, contrast, warmth, and dimming, with scheduling, supported-PDF darkening, and per-site settings on top.

Feature coverage

  • Dark and filtered modes with per-site settings
  • Brightness, contrast, warmth, and dim controls
  • Scheduling and darkening for supported PDFs

What stands out

  • Strong rating on a large sample
  • Maintained since 2018, updated August 2026
  • Lite plan works without an account, per the developer

Tradeoffs to know

  • Free Lite plan covers only five websites
  • Unlimited sites require an annual or one-time plan
  • Sends licence checks to Night Eye's servers

Is Night Eye safe to use?

Night Eye looks safe on the public record: a product maintained since 2018 with a strong rating, and a privacy policy saying the URLs, content, and history of pages you browse never reach its servers. All-sites access is inherent to dark mode; the disclosed PII relates to accounts, billing, and licence checks.

Page access Broad

Requests page-content access across sites. Broad access is not itself a red flag — the question is whether the job justifies the reach, and whether the publisher's record earns it.

Darkening any site you open means reading and restyling page content everywhere, so all-sites access is inherent to the job. Night Eye's allow and disallow lists control where it acts, and Chrome's site-access setting can narrow it further, which suits Lite users who only need their five chosen sites.

Store-disclosed data

  • Personally identifiable information

The listing discloses personally identifiable information, which the developer's policy ties to accounts and billing: name, email, purchase records, and licence data. The policy says the extension does not receive the URLs, content, or history of pages it converts, and that Lite works without an account, though licence checks still send a user ID and IP address.

Does Night Eye track the websites I visit?

Its privacy policy says the extension does not receive the URLs or domains of pages you visit, their content, or your browsing history. It does send licence-verification requests carrying a user ID, plan status, browser and device details, and your IP address.

Why does Night Eye need access to all websites?

To darken a page it has to read and change that page's colors, and it is meant to work on any site you open. Its allow and disallow lists, or Chrome's site-access controls, narrow where it runs.

Is Night Eye free?

Partly. New installs get Night Eye Pro free for three months with no card required; afterward, Lite stays free on up to five websites in one browser. Pro costs $9 a year, Pro Max $14 a year, and Ultimate is a $40 one-time payment, per nighteye.app.

How we judge this: our extension safety guide · how we rate

Pricing

Free Lite (5 sites) after a 3-month Pro trial; Pro $9/yr, Pro Max $14/yr, Ultimate $40 once. Pricing and plan limits change more often than store metadata, so use the linked developer page as the final check before subscribing.

Alternatives

AlternativeDark ReaderAlternativeMidnight LizardAlternativeTurn Off the Lights

Sources

We used the official Chrome Web Store listing and first-party developer material. Public metrics can change after the fact-check date.

  1. Chrome Web Store listing

    Rating, rating count, public users, version, update date, and publisher disclosures verified 2026-10-12.

  2. Night Eye product documentation

    First-party product, feature, support, or project documentation used for workflow context.

  3. Extension Reviewer methodology

    How public claims, permissions, evidence, and tradeoffs are reviewed.

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