YouTube Darkview

Darken bright videos by changing their pixels.

Make light video backgrounds easier to look at. Content-aware inversion treats bright regions differently from faces, photos, and colors.

Content-aware mode

Lecture notes

A bright background.
The same colors.

Switch the illustration between light and dark

Content-aware inversion

Change bright backgrounds and text while preserving colored regions where possible.

Use a simple inversion mode when you want the entire image transformed.

Control the effect from the popup and toggle it on the current YouTube page.

The extension processes video frames in the browser. Frames are not uploaded to a server.

Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store, then open a YouTube video.

Is this the same as YouTube’s dark theme?

YouTube’s dark theme changes the page around the video. Darkview changes bright content inside the video itself.

How do I switch it on?

Open the popup or press Alt/Option + D on a YouTube page.

Does every video need Darkview?

No. It is most useful for bright slides, diagrams, whiteboards, and screen recordings. You can turn it off for any page.