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Apps with Dark (black/night) mode [collection list]

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pacorob

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I thought it would be helpful to have a list somewhere of apps that have a dark/black/night mode in their app so you can also watch when the lights are off. I'm not talking about Night shift here btw.

I do want to note that some apps in this list have actual a true black background (e.g. Reddit client Apollo) with white text on it, while others (e.g. Tweetbot) still use a grey background.

This is a wiki post so feel free to add your suggestions but do indicate if it has a manual switch or if it's switching automatic. It would also be helpful to share the App Store link (US one).

[last updated 8th of March 2019]

Internet browsers:
Opera Mini (free) - automatic or manual, not real dark mode in comparison to Firefox
Firefox (free) - manual, dark theme, true dark mode
Berry Dark Browser (4.99 dollar) - manual?, true dark mode

E-mail:
Canary Mail (9.99 dollar) - dark theme
TypeApp / Blue Mail
Spark (free) - has a black theme, however doesn't affect e-mails itself only header and menu

Calendar/Actionlist:
Omnifocus 2 (free, various in-app) - automatic or manual dark theme
Fantastical 2 (4.99 dollar) - dark theme
Pod calendar (free) - dark theme
Timepage (subscription based, 11.99 dollar a year) - dark theme
Anylist (free, dark mode only in-app subscription) - manual dark theme (subscription version only)
Things 3 (9.99 dollar) - dark theme

Social:
Twitter (free)
Tweetbot4 (4.99 dollar) - Twitter client - automatic or manual, grey theme
Twitterific 5 (free, various in-app) - automatic or manual
Reddit - automatic or manual
Apollo - Reddit client - automatic (paid 4.99 dollar) or manual (free), true black
Beam - Reddit client - automatic or manual (free, has donation options as in-app)
narwhal (free, in-app 3.99 dollar) - Reddit client - grey, not black
Friendly Plus (1.99 dollar) - Facebook client - automatic or manual
Facebook Messenger - see also here
Tapatalk Pro (2.99 dollar)
Telegram (beta) - not yet in App Store, beta only
Discord (free) - grey, not black

News:
News Explorer (4.99 dollar) - manual, true black theme
TechPort (free, 1.99 dollar in-app no-ads) - automatic or manual
Newsify (free, various in-app) - automatic or manual
Reeder 3 (4.99 dollar) - manual, dark theme
HeartFeed (free, 2.99 dollar in-app unlimited feeds) - manual, dark theme
Unread: RSS Reader (free to try, 7.99 dollar in-app) - dark theme
Wikipedia (free) - manual, dark theme
MacHash News (free, in-app purchases)
Instapaper (free)
Pocket (free, in-app purchases)
iMDB (free)
Nu.nl (free, Dutch news) - manual, dark theme (black/grey)
NOS (free, Dutch public news) - manual, dark theme (black/grey)
IP (free, Dutch Apple focused news) - automatic dark mode
Lire (6.99 dollar) - multiple dark themes, including true black

Audio:
iCatcher! (2.99 dollar) (podcast app) - automatic or manual
Pocket Casts (3.99 dollar) (podcast app) - manual, dark theme
Castro 2 (4.99 dollar) (podcast app) - dark theme
Overcast (free, 9.99 dollar in-app) (podcast app) - dark theme
Audible (free)

Video:
YouTube (free, with ads, subscription 9.99 month no ads) - manual, dark theme
Musi (YouTube) (free with ads, in-app 4.99 ad-free) - manual, dark theme
Evercast (YouTube) - only available in some countries, not in US/UK (free with ads, in-app 360 Yen ad-free) - manual, dark theme

Weather:
BeWeather 3 (2.99 dollar, removed temporary from App Store since 27/Feb/'19 - you can Beta test it here) - manual, dark theme
Partly Sunny (app, not widget) (2.99 dollar) - automatic or manual, dark theme
Dark Sky (3.99 dollar) - dark theme
Weather Underground (free, in-app 1,99 p/yr ad-free) - manual, dark theme

Sports:
CardioBot (2.99 dollar)

Reading:
Adobe Acrobat Reader (free)
Kobo (free)
Bible by Olive Tree (free, in-app purchases)
NOOK (free)
Amazon Kindle (free) - manual dark theme

Writing:
Ulysess (free, subscription in-app purchases)
Monsense (removed from App Store)
Simplenote (free)
iA Writer (4.99 dollar)
Scrivener (19.99 dollar)
1Writer (4.99 dollar)
Add to (free) - manual, dark theme

Coding:
Coda (24.99 dollar)
Pythonisa 3 (9.99 dollar)
Codea (14.99 dollar)
Textastic Code Editor 6 (9.99 dollar)
Buffer Editor (4.99 dollar)
Git2Go (free, various in-app purchases)
JavaScript Anywhere JSAnywhere (free)

Navigation:
Waze (free)
Google Maps (free) - automatic
Navmii (various apps) (free, but various in-app purchases e.g. to remove ads)

Various:
Scanbot Pro (6.99 and in-app purchases)
iCurrency (0.99 dollar)
Coindex (free)
Transmit (removed from App Store)
Screens VNC (19.99 + in-app 0.99 cent for dark mode)
Quick Plan - Project management (17.99 dollar)
 
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reeder also has a dark mode. it even has a pure black mode for its mac app.
The official wikipedia app looks pretty dark to me.
iA writer is dark enough.
Tapatalk pro has a darkish mode witch looks a little brown.
Skype is pure dark now.
Fantastical has a gorgeous dark+red theme.
Waze is a map app with cute, fluent animations and dark map mode.
Scanbot is a document scanning software with many themes including dark.
iCurrency is exactly dark, but its awesome.
Try transmit, its a feather-rich SFTP/webdav app with dark UI.
Screens (was Screens VNC) is a remote control app with dark interface.
Spotify is aways dark lol.
Teevee and Seasons are two outstanding TV show tracker/notifier with dark and good looking UI, recommended.

Sorry cant give app store link here im typing on the phone.
 
Onemarathon said:
Canary mail and OmniFocus both have a dark mode.
Spark has added black as a theme, but I’m not sure I’d consider it a dark mode.
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Thank you for your suggestions. I've added Canary mail and Omnifocus. I'm a user of Spark myself. It has a dark theme, however that is only for the background unfortunately the e-mails itself still stay as they are with a white background.

rwilliams said:
Overcast has a dark theme.
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DamianPlak said:
Add to
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Thank you for all you additions to the topic. I added them to the topic start post.
 
pacorob said:
Thank you for your suggestions. I've added Canary mail and Omnifocus. I'm a user of Spark myself. It has a dark theme, however that is only for the background unfortunately the e-mails itself still stay as they are with a white background.





Thank you for all you additions to the topic. I added them to the topic start post.
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Fantastical has a light and dark mode switch.
 
I had the same idea to put all app that is supporting dark mode into one list. So I've made a collection of such apps/sites with dark mode support:

DarkModeList.com

DarkModeList.com/ios

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iGeneo said:
Add Overcast to the list
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It is already in start post mentioned since earlier this month. Do let me know if you know others.

AndreyAzimov said:
Thanks for the feedback. I will add the filter to iOS shortly and only iOS apps will be shown. Is it ok?
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Thanks for adding that filter option to your website and also adding the apps which are mentioned in this start post.

I just added these coding apps to the start post though:

Coding:
Coda
Pythonisa 3
Codea
Textastic Code Editor 6
Buffer Editor
Git2Go
JavaScript Anywhere JSAnywhere
 
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Great idea. As I said here I use Adobe Acrobat Reader for ebooks, since it's the only reader I have seen so far that can force dark mode even in PDFs that are only made of images.

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...t-night-black-background-for-reading.2051591/

Please read this thread and the links in it to understand why the dark mode is so important.

Adobe Acrobat link:
https://itunes.apple.com/br/app/adobe-acrobat-reader/id469337564?mt=8

I also advise to tell if an app is free or paid. I am looking for one that has the same features from the default podcasts app (for iOS 10.3.2), and that is free. Haven't found yet.

P.S. for browsing Firefox is better than Opera Mini, the latter does not have true dark mode.

Unfortunatelly there's no adblock for any other browser besides Safari.
 
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Perene said:
Great idea. As I said here I use Adobe Acrobat Reader for ebooks, since it's the only reader I have seen so far that can force dark mode even in PDFs that are only made of images.

I also advise to tell if an app is free or paid. I am looking for one that has the same features from the default podcasts app (for iOS 10.3.2), and that is free. Haven't found yet.

P.S. for browsing Firefox is better than Opera Mini, the latter does not have true dark mode.

Unfortunatelly there's no adblock for any other browser besides Safari.
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Thanks for your suggestion to add Adobe Acrobat Reader. I added it to the start post topic.

I also added info if apps are free, or are paid or free, with in-app purchases. In some occassions you need to do the in-app to get the (automatic) dark mode.

I also indicated that Firefox has a true dark mode experience and Opera Mini has not.

As said in the podcast topic I'm afraid that I don't know any podcast app that is free and has a dark mode and supports iOS10.3.2. I do think the 2.99 dollar (once) for iCatcher is worth the money. I also would like to stick on that same iOS version for quite a bit longer. Podcast app Overcast asks iOS11 as a minimum nowadays.
 
Icatcher says in the changelog it has dark mode based on screen brightness. If this works like Opera then it's not really true dark mode. For an app to have this feature you can't have any white background anywhere, not even in images. Reducing the brightness should never qualify an app to enter this list, in my opinion.

Dark mode should have a total black background and white font text. Anything besides that means the developer does not understand the concept.

P.S. please check Evercast for YouTube
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/evercast-watch/id665446587?l=en&mt=8

Also has dark mode in the internal settings.
 
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Perene said:
Icatcher says in the changelog it has dark mode based on screen brightness. If this works like Opera then it's not really true dark mode. For an app to have this feature you can't have any white background anywhere, not even in images. Reducing the brightness should never qualify an app to enter this list, in my opinion.

Dark mode should have a total black background and white font text. Anything besides that means the developer does not understand the concept.

P.S. please check Evercast for YouTube
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/evercast-watch/id665446587?l=en&mt=8

Also has dark mode in the internal settings.
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The iCatcher podcast app comes really close to what I call dark mode but I agree with you that it isn't fully dark mode if you look at it as you said. It does have a dark background, the menu options are grey and the text is white. However top menu background is grey as well.

I added the Evercast app to the list (which I bought a few months ago). Unfortunately it is no longer available now in my country App Store nor is it available in e.g. US, UK among various other countries in Europe I tried.
 
I think that reducing the screen brightness only detracts the image instead of improving. That's why I don't think Opera Mini (for example) qualifies as having true dark mode, like Firefox. There are some ways to implement this in PCs, browsers always have extensions such as this one: https://mybrowseraddon.com/night-mode.html

For that goal. The problem with PC is that some websites don't accept this modification (like Amazon). Parts of the text are missing when we enable it, so I have to add a few sites to the "whitelist", to be excluded from that. So far I haven't noticed anything of the sort in iOS, but we can't use adblock (I think Apple only allows for Safari).

It's even more sad that most sites use a white and very bright background and never offer ways to use darker themes, even Macrumors is guilt of that. Sadly most people are ignorant of how harmful this is for the eyes, we already have to use alternate glasses to block blue light, and reduce screen brightness below 50%, this latter measure wouldn't be that necessary if I could look at most sites this way:

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Even though I enabled this feature in my PC, take a look how bright the text box is... it is a disgrace that with so much technology no one cares about implementing something so easy and simple.

(At least we are getting more emojis in every new iOS version, right?) ;):D
 
Perene said:
E-mail:
Two more apps (both free):
However I am not going to use either. They both use the same engine. I noticed a few bugs loading or sending emails, and it's slower than the default email app from iOS. All these issues are annoying.
A dark mode feature is available. Unfortunately this is far from being enough to make them good.
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The Type and Bluemail app (from the same owner I think) are not the best third party e-mail apps out there but it's cool to read they have a dark mode though. I hope that Astro, Spark or Edison Mail will add a dark mode though.
 
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