
Turn Off the Lights for Safari 17+
Darkens the rest of the web
Stefan Van Damme
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- Free
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Description
Immerse yourself in a cinematic atmosphere while watching videos online with Turn Off the Lights. This powerful browser extension dims everything on the web page except for the video you are watching, bringing your focus to the content that matters most.
Turn Off the Lights browser extension has also been featured on several popular websites, including Lifehacker, CNET, ZDNet, BuzzFeed, and PC World. With its growing popularity and positive feedback, it is no surprise that the Turn Off the Lights browser extension has become one of the most popular and trusted browser extensions in the market.
Please share your feedback, suggestions, and thoughts with us https://www.turnoffthelights.com/support
Browser extension features:
◆ Turn the lights back on by clicking on the black layer
◆ Supports multiple video sites: YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Twitch, and more
◆ Customize your YouTube experience:
- Auto HD: Set videos to play in HD automatically, with options ranging from highres > 8K > 5K > 4K > 1080p > 720p > 480p > 360p > 240p > 144p > default
- Auto Wide: Automatically plays videos in the widest mode
- 60 FPS Block: Disable YouTube 60 FPS for Auto HD 30 FPS video quality
◆ Easter Eggs:
Shortcut key: T -> Experience a real movie theater feeling
◆ Darken the screen when the user clicks on the play button
◆ Toggle fade in and fade out effects
◆ Customize colors
◆ Enable Multimedia Detection
◆ Display Dimness Level Bar
◆ Eye Protection for nighttime browsing, with a whitelist/blacklist filter
◆ Atmosphere lighting to create a glow around the video player
◆ Show the dark layer on top of the window
◆ Shortcut Keys:
Ctrl + Shift + L: Toggle the lights
Alt + F8: Restore default opacity value
Alt + F9: Save current opacity value
Alt + F10: Enable/disable the Eye Protection feature
Alt + (Arrow Up): Increase opacity
Alt + (Arrow Down): Decrease opacity
Alt + *: Toggle lights on all open tabs
◆ Mouse Wheel Volume Control for each HTML5 video player
◆ Apply filters to the current HTML5 video player (grayscale, sepia, invert, contrast, saturate, hue rotation, brightness)
◆ Audio Visualization effect on top of the current HTML5 video (Blocks, Frequency, and Music Tunnel)
◆ Loop the current HTML5 video player
◆ Night Mode switch to toggle YouTube in black or white theme, with whitelist/blacklist filter
- Timestamp: Activate Night Mode within the chosen time
- Blackout: Dim web page and activate Night Mode
◆ Stop YouTube and HTML5 videos from automatically playing
◆ And more…
Do not forget to Like & Follow Us:
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/turnoffthelight
X
https://www.x.com/TurnOfftheLight
Pinterest
https://www.pinterest.com/turnoffthelight
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/turnoffthelights
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@turnoffthelights
Project Information:
https://www.turnoffthelights.com/browser
Note: YouTube is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.
What’s New
Version 4.5.7
+ Fixed YouTube website
+ Fixed lamp icon
If you like Turn Off the Lights, the best way you can support the app is by telling others about it!
And please do not forget to rate the app to 5 stars on the App Store that to support my free and Open-Source work.
If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! Turn Off the Lights offers free support. You can reach us on Facebook TurnOfftheLight, or on X at @turnoffthelight. You can also read our User Guides or browse our FAQs on https://www.turnoffthelights.com/support.
Ratings and Reviews
So clean!
While there is a lot of flexibility in the settings, I love having videos in theater view to go full browser width and then the background screen tint to almost full black. It creates a nearly identical experience of being in fullscreen mode without having activate that over and over. This is a top 5 extension for me!!
Best dark mode Safari extension
This is a top-tier dark mode / night mode Safari extension for iOS 15+. It’s also free, and doesn’t look to have any privacy issues. I’d recommend changing the background color to pure black, and set it to automatically apply to all webpages. It works great.
For the developer, it may be worth considering having the app open directly to night mode settings. I think that will be a lot more popular in this mobile app than it may be on desktop. After my experience with this, I’ll definitely be looking into the extension for Microsoft Edge on my PC.
Great dark mode
Great extension for dark mode. I like the customizations you can do with the texts however there’s two annoyances that I have with this. The first one is the dark mode switch that’s on the lower left hand corner. It’s too big and there’s no option to get rid of it. This needs to be more of an option in the address bar if you want to switch on and off. The second is that when going in a website when you have the settings in automatic dark mode the page is white for a brief second then goes into dark mode. If there’s a way to get it dark just before the page loads that would be great.
Developer Response ,
Hi Kosta-S87,
Thank you for your 4 star review!
You can hide the switch, there is a checkbox in the Turn Off the Lights Options page to hide the switch after your chosen seconds (or you type 0s).
Also, if you want to use only the Night Mode part. Then you can concert the lamp button action to the Night Owl profile (= the name to activate Night Mode feature). See this YouTube video tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vubVpLm8ldk
And the second part, that is coming very soon in a new update for the public users. It was before available for the beta users in my TestFlight app.
Please if you have any questions or need help you can contact us at https://www.turnoffthelights.com/support
We are happy to help you.
Thanks,
App Privacy
The developer, Stefan Van Damme, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Stefan Van Damme
- Size
- 16.2 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.5 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2025 Stefan Van Damme. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free