Dark Mode for Every Video Site

Dark mode on the web is a patchwork. One site has a theme toggle buried in account settings, another only follows your system if you're signed in, a third never got around to a dark theme at all. The result is familiar to anyone who watches video at night: a dim room, a comfortable dark player — and then one navigation click later, a white page lighting up the wall behind you.

Mira's answer is to make appearance a non-decision. The app follows your device's appearance automatically, so videos and pages feel natural in both light and dark. There's nothing to set — it just matches your system. Switch your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to Dark Mode and Mira goes with it; switch back and it follows.

How it works

When your iPhone, iPad, or Mac is in Dark Mode, Mira is too. When your device is in Light Mode, Mira matches that instead. You don't hunt for a theme switch inside Mira, and you don't manage a separate setting per site — the app takes its cue from the one appearance setting you already control.

That's the entire feature description, and the brevity is the point. Most "dark mode everywhere" solutions ask you to maintain something: a per-site preference, an extension, a list of exceptions. Mira's version asks you to maintain nothing, because the source of truth is a setting your device already has.

Let your device do the scheduling

Because Mira tracks the system, every appearance trick your device already knows applies to Mira for free:

1. On iPhone or iPad, open Settings → Display & Brightness and turn on Automatic — your device (and Mira with it) goes dark at sunset and light at sunrise.
2. On Mac, choose Auto appearance in System Settings → Appearance for the same day/night rhythm.
3. Prefer dark all the time? Set your device to Dark and Mira simply stays there.

When this helps most

If you only ever watch one site with a solid dark theme of its own, you may rarely notice. The payoff comes from variety — and Mira is built around variety, with built-in shortcuts to many video and streaming sites plus any you add yourself. Hopping between platforms at 11pm is exactly when a consistent, system-matched appearance stops the bright-page ambushes between videos.

The smaller and odder the site, the more this matters. Big platforms generally have a dark theme somewhere in their settings; the lecture archive or regional broadcaster you added as a custom platform very likely doesn't. In Mira, the app around those sites follows your system appearance either way — so the experience of moving between them stays consistent even when the sites themselves aren't.

It's also one less thing to configure. There's no theme checklist when you add a new platform and no setting to forget on a new device — appearance is inherited, not configured.

Dark mode won't dim the video itself

One thing no dark theme can do: make the video content darker. A snow scene, an over-lit studio, or a white-background tutorial is just as bright in dark mode, because the pixels of the video are the video. For that, Mira has a separate tool — Eye Comfort Mode, which dims harsh, overly bright videos with an adjustable intensity slider. Dark mode handles the page around the player; Eye Comfort handles what's inside it. Late-night viewers tend to want both, and they're part of the same calmer way to watch that Mira is built around.

Things to note

• It follows the system — there's no separate in-app toggle. If you want Mira dark while the rest of your device is light, that's not how it works; the appearance setting is your device's, by design.
• Video content stays at its natural brightness. Dark mode changes the interface and pages, not the footage. Use Eye Comfort Mode when the video itself is the bright part.
• Sites differ. The web is still the web — how each individual site presents itself in dark appearance varies from site to site, and a few will always insist on their own look.