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A real dark theme for every website, built on the fly from the page's own colors.
Install and enable the Owl Safari extension to darken any site with no white flash. Step-by-step setup for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Read guide → How it works Owl vs. a Dark Filter: Why It Rewrites Colours Instead of Inverting ThemWhy Owl keeps photos and brand colours intact, inverts only dark icons, skips sites that already have a dark theme and avoids the white flash.
Read guide → Customisation How to Tune Owl: Presets, Sliders, Custom Colours and FontsUse presets, sliders for brightness, contrast, sepia and grayscale, your own colours, faux bold and a font override to make dark pages easier to read.
Read guide → Automation Dark Mode on a Schedule, by System Setting or Per SiteMake Owl follow your system appearance, run at set times, or only darken chosen sites. Both lists are kept when you change the default.
Read guide → Night reading White Websites Hurt My Eyes at Night: A Dark Mode That Doesn't Wreck the PageLate-night browsing with a blinding white page, or a dark filter that smears everything grey. How Owl gives a readable dark theme in Safari.
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