DarkWave
Dark mode for Sheets, Docs & the web—without broken photos
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Details
- External ID
- 1276716
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- DarkWave
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Productivity, GitHub
Description
DarkWave gives Google Sheets, Docs, Slides and the web a calmer dark mode. It handles the canvas-rendered editor surface, keeps photos and media close to their natural appearance, leaves already-dark sites alone, and includes brightness, contrast, per-site controls and scheduling. The free extension makes no network requests and has no tracking.
Enrichment
- Niche
- browser extensions
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- browser extension dark mode for google docs and sheets
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Standard CSS injection for dark mode is easy, but correctly re-rendering complex WebGL/Canvas surfaces in Google Sheets and Docs without distorting embedded images requires sophisticated DOM/Canvas shader intercepting.
What it would actually take: Requires a browser extension injecting custom content scripts that intercept and hook HTML5 Canvas rendering contexts (`CanvasRenderingContext2D` / WebGL) to recolor sheet grid lines and text while skipping image bitmaps. Demands deep knowledge of low-level browser rendering, canvas APIs, and DOM mutation handling.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #33 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
- Veil · hn · 2026-03-26 · 100 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- NIGHT MODE - Screen Dimmer · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- QwikDim · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Black Pixel Replacer · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Breeze-Dark-OLED · github · 2026-09-20 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- BackdropX · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Wave · hn · 2026-09-25 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Darkroom · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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