No extension. No account. No subscription. Free try: 3 turns.
Dark mode for any page, kept in one bookmark.
Set your brightness, contrast and warmth, drag the button to your bookmarks bar, and click it on any page that hurts your eyes. Photos and videos keep their real colours.
These sliders set: every site
On a phone or tablet?
- Tap Copy the code.
- Bookmark this page, then edit the bookmark: name it Lampshade and paste the code over the address.
- On a bright page, type Lampshade in the address bar and tap the bookmark in the list (Chrome, Android). On iPhone, open it from the Bookmarks list.
Per-site settings
Some sites need a softer touch. Save settings for a site and the bookmark uses them there; every other site gets your default. Saved in this browser only.
Dark reader for pasted text
Paste an article, an email or a chunk of HTML. It is shown in a calm dark page that you size to taste. Kept in this browser so it is still here tomorrow.
What it can't do (yet)
- It doesn't switch on by itself. A bookmark only runs when you click it, so click it once on each page you open.
- Some pages refuse it. Browser pages (settings, new tab, the Chrome Web Store) never run bookmarks. Sites with a very strict security policy may block it too; it is built to get past the usual style rules. Check it on our plain test page and our strict test page.
- No "open this link in dark mode" box. A web page can't load other sites for you without a server in the middle, so instead you click the bookmark on the site itself, or paste the text into the reader.
- It is a filter, not a redesign. It flips the page's colours and flips photos back. A few sites with their own dark tricks can look slightly off; save a softer setting for them.
Lampshade, full version
The free try gives you 3 turns: each time you take the bookmark (drag or copy) or save a new site uses one, and the reader shows the first 5 paragraphs. A bookmark you have taken keeps working. The full version is £3.00, paid once.
- Take and rebuild the bookmark as often as you like
- Settings for as many sites as you like
- The whole text in the dark reader, and restore from a backup file
- One payment, no subscription, no account
Full version unlocked. Thank you.
FAQ
- What does the £3.00 buy?
- One payment unlocks the whole app in this browser (and up to 3 browsers with the restore button): take the bookmark as often as you like, settings for any number of sites, the whole text in the reader and restore from a backup file. No subscription.
- Where is my data kept? What leaves the browser?
- Your settings and pasted text stay in this browser's storage and are never uploaded. The bookmark runs only on the page you click it on and sends nothing anywhere. The only things that leave the browser: a page-view count, and, if you buy, a check with our payment server that Stripe got paid.
- Which browsers work?
- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave and Safari on a computer, by dragging the button to the bookmarks bar. On phones you paste the code into a bookmark (steps above). Browser pages such as settings or the extension store never run bookmarks.
- Can I get a refund?
- Yes. If it doesn't do what this page says, or you are not happy, email business@thatched.ai within 14 days of paying with the email on your Stripe receipt, and we refund the full amount.