We love Dark Mode in macOS... until we visit a website that doesn’t support it: Especially at night, there’s nothing worse than a shockingly bright web page when the rest of your Mac’s screen is calm and dark. The Safari extension Noir brings Dark Mode to every website you view in Safari; even better, it adapts the colours on each site to custom themes you choose.

What we love: How customisable Noir makes Dark Mode. The app includes more than two dozen themes, from basics like dark, grey and sepia to creative options like Forest, Solarized and Matrix (which looks exactly as you’d expect). Or create your own themes, each with a distinct background colour, text colour and image brightness – or with images converted to greyscale for a more soothing appearance. Pick your favourite theme as the default, and assign alternate themes to specific websites.

Quick tip: Use keyboard shortcuts to quickly turn Noir on or off and to cycle through themes for the current website. Or click the Noir icon in Safari’s toolbar to choose your settings, including the option to apply those settings to all pages on the current site or just the current page. For sites that already have a dark appearance, you can choose to override that look with one of Noir’s themes.

Meet the creator: Dutch developer Jeffrey Kuiken has been coding since he was a teenager; he released his first app to the public in 2020. One of his favourite moments as a developer was when a friend of a friend recommended Noir to him, not realising it was his own app. “After I convinced her, she provided me with some useful feedback,” he says. “To this day she’s helping out with testing new updates.” He recommends trying the app’s Shortcuts actions to integrate Noir’s features into your workflows.