Please use and enjoy it, and if you can make a donation of any amount, we'd appreciate it immensely

Touch Bar support for the Turn Off the Lights for Desktop Mac app

Turn Off the Lights for Desktop is one of the most customizable and advanced Mac app ever. That you can use to dims your whole screen. And today we are excited to update this experience even further. As a result, we added few easy control buttons in your Touch Bar (for Macbook Pro 13 inch and Macbook 15 inch late 2016 model), so you can easily dim your screen with one tap, change the opacity, and even change the color of this dark layer.

Touch Bar

You get the best experience on your fingertips, move the slider to left or right to get a comfortable feeling for your eyes. Furthermore, you can change the color of this dark layer live with a finger tap on your Touch Bar.
Touch bar Turn Off the Lights mac app

Notification Center Widget

You as a user can swipe with your two fingers and tap to change quickly the opacity value. This  Notification Center widget is movable in your sidebar. Move to the left, to decrease to opacity value of the dark layer and vice versa.

Notification Center Widget Turn Off the Lights for Desktop Mac app

Translation Update

We updated also support for the following language Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Polish, Slovenian, Swedish and Romanian.

It is a free update, for all the Mac users who installed the Turn Off the Lights for Desktop Mac app. The Mac app is available for macOS Sierra. If you have any questions or need help, you can ask it on our support page.

Stefan Van Damme

Can I help with a Donation?

People all over the world use Turn Off the Lights. While developing a very quality browser extension for all web browser takes time. Not all web browsers are the same code. And simplicity must be available for each browsers, so you get a better online web and video experience.

We have a broad support of all web browsers from Google Chrome, to the latest newest Microsoft Edge browser. Now we need your help in return. Will you help sustain this free Open Source Turn Off the Lights Browser extension?

Since December 2009 is it the best and unique browser extension in the world, that do what it must do. It is our job to get you focused on the important thing on the web, the video player. With at the same time to protect your eyes late at night. However, there are functions inside to lift up your online watching experience such as the vivid glow effect around the HTML5 video player. And a feature that you will delighted is the Night Mode feature, so you can browse the web in a dark theme. The experience you get is a more comfortable and a pleasant feeling that you only get in the Turn Off the Lights Browser extension.

Privacy is very important to us, so we don’t sell your personal information and the browser extension does not inject ads on the web page. But we still need to pay for servers, staff and rent. That is where you can help us.
Due to the very small number of donations the project may be closed. Please support further development with a donation. The key is to keep improving, and keep the browser extension free for everyone. This from children (K-6, K-8, K-12), students, teachers and all the internet users.

Turn Off the Lights Donation support coffee

Click here to give $10 to support our work. If you cannot make a donation of an amount, then you can support our work by rating the browser extension to 5 stars, and share it with your friends on your favorite social network.

Thank you.

Stefan Van Damme

Is Apple Safari support extremely dead?

No, not really, the new Turn Off the Lights Safari extension update is now online. We worked very hard to get all the features from the latest Turn Off the Lights Google Chrome extension version to the Safari web browser. And need more time to import this well into the User Experience of the Apple Safari web browser. Today is the day you can enjoy our new version. There are a lot of big changes in this version, such as the new Audio Visualization, Mouse Volume Scroll, a long press on the lamp button to get the context menu, the new color picker, etc.

Long press

In the new version, we improved the user experience to open fast the Turn Off the Lights options page. Previously, to customize the Turn Off the Lights Safari extension you must first open the Safari “Preferences…” window, then a second click on the tab “Extensions”. And finally, you can open the Turn Off the Lights options page.

Turn Off the Lights Safari extension right click menu
Turn Off the Lights Safari extension right-click menu

Now with the new Safari extension version, you do a long press on the lamp button. Then you see a context menu popup coming down the gray lamp button. And now you can share this extension, but also to open directly the options page.

Apple Safari Technology Preview 10.1 new Color picker

When we work on the latest stable Safari web browser, we test this extension also in the next Safari web browser. So in the Safari Technology Preview web browser version 10.1 (release 18), you will get a new and better color picker. You can choose now fast your favorite color.

Apple Safari Preview with the color picker

Also, we improved a few general bugs in the Safari extension. So you get the best online video experience in your Safari web browser.

Update it Now

Turn Off the Lights Safari extension v3.3.0.14 is available for Safari 10.0.2 and Safari Technology Preview 10.1 for macOS Sierra. And you can get the Safari extension from the Apple website – Safari Extensions page. If you have any questions or feedback for us, you can use this support form.
Don’t forget to support our work by rating this browser extension to 5 stars and sharing this browser extension with your friends.

Stefan Van Damme