Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Midnight
clutter-free, zero-blue light reading experience
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Midnight launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Optimize websites for reading: font, contrast, night mode
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Enable dark mode (night mode) on all websites
2018 · darkreader.org · its alternatives →
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Midnight Lizard▲124Clever night mode for all websites
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Dark Reader▲299Dark theme for every website, care for your eyes
2018 · darkreader.org · its alternatives →
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Reader Mode▲405Remove clutter and ads from any article. Instantly ⚡
2019 · readermode.io · its alternatives →
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A desktop app that kills the procrastination in you.
2019 · its alternatives →
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NightScreen Mode▲105An amber filter + dark mode to use Chrome without eye strain
2025 · nightscreenmode.app · its alternatives →
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Reader Mode 2.0▲332Read, highlight and annotate the web without distractions
2025 · readermode.io · its alternatives →
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NightOwl▲320Easily toggle your Macs Dark Mode with this menubar app.
2019 · nightowlapp.co · its alternatives →
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Webpage in Night Mode
2017 · minhaskamal.github.io · its alternatives →
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A simple night light that dims over time
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! In the last months I've been working on Unclutter, a modern reader mode browser extension. In contrast to all existing approaches, it unclutters articles by modifying their CSS instead of extracting the text content. This results in a more visually pleasing result that reuses the original article style. The idea is to remove friction so you use the reader mode more often. There are a few more features around saving articles automatically and taking highlights -- more details are on the website. The extension has about 400 active weekly users right now, mostly from organic web…
2022 · unclutter.it · its alternatives →
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Never Read▲85Free Mac App that deletes your "read later" backlog
2015 · neverread.neverthesamecolor.net · its alternatives →
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Solace▲171macOS gives you three appearance options: Light, Dark, or Auto. Auto follows sunset, which is a surprisingly blunt heuristic. It doesn't account for season (dark mode at 3:50pm in December, light mode at 9pm in June), and it has zero awareness of actual conditions outside. Overcast and dark at 2pm? Your Mac doesn't care. The deeper problem is that macOS treats appearance, wallpaper, and colour temperature as unrelated settings. You end up stitching together separate tools that don't know about each other, or you just live with the defaults and accept the friction. Solace tries to solve this…
Feb 2026 · theodorehq.com · its alternatives →
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Midnight Pub▲95Virtual pub for tired souls looking to lift their spirits
2020 · midnight.pub · its alternatives →
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Night Viewer▲93Enable dark mode for View Page Source (Chrome/Firefox/Edge)
2020 · nighteye.app · its alternatives →
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Read articles + text blocks (any app) distraction free.
2022 · quietreader.app · its alternatives →
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