Turn Off the Lights
Dims everything around a video and adds a site-wide dark mode.
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About Turn Off the Lights
Turn Off the Lights fades the page around a video player so only the video is lit, and also provides a general dark mode, night mode scheduling, mouse-wheel volume control and a few playback conveniences. It works across the common video sites and many others.
Strengths
- The cinema dimming effect works on almost any embedded player
- Adds volume, speed and screenshot controls alongside the dark mode
Limitations
- The options page is cluttered with many rarely used settings
- Closed source
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use. Some extra features are offered as paid upgrades.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Stefan Van Damme
- Platforms
- Browser extension
- How it runs
- Browser extension
- Best suited for
- Dims everything around a video and adds a site-wide dark mode
- Categories
- Browser tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus Resource Hub (Browser Extensions); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.
Alternatives to Turn Off the Lights
Compare allSoftware that can replace Turn Off the Lights for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Dark Reader
Generates a dark theme for every website, on the fly.
Dark Reader is open source under MIT and generates dark themes for every site with per-site settings, but has no video dimming, volume, speed or screenshot controls.
Night Eye
Dark mode extension that converts pages locally while preserving colours.
Night Eye converts pages to dark mode locally while preserving colours, but free use is limited and continued use needs a subscription or lifetime licence; there is no video dimming.
Noir
Adds dark mode to every website in Safari to reduce eye strain and save battery.
Noir is a paid dark mode app for Safari on macOS and iOS rather than a browser extension, and it has no cinema dimming or video controls.
Turn Off the Lights as an alternative
Listings that name Turn Off the Lights as an alternative.
Video Speed Controller
A browser extension that adds keyboard shortcuts to speed up, slow down and rewind HTML5 video.
Turn Off the Lights adds speed, volume and screenshot controls alongside video dimming and a site-wide dark mode, though its options page is cluttered.
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