Dark mode

Hi Grant!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on a dark mode for Khan Academy to help you study at night. We are always working to add features that improve our site, and we love getting input from our community.

I've passed your feedback along to the team and it will be part of our conversation as we plan the future of Khan Academy.

In the meantime, you can search for browser extensions that can help you view not only Khan Academy in dark mode but other websites as well. There is an extension called "Dark Reader" that can be installed on browsers such as Google Chrome and Firefox and it works really well.

Thanks for helping improve Khan Academy!

Andrew,
I sympathize with having to respond over and over to what seems like the same question, and therefore responding with a canned answer.
However, this user - and several others - did not say they wanted it for studying at night.  In fact, several users on other posts about dark mode have pointed out that it is an accessibility issue at all times of day for some users.
Users on other posts have also pointed out that they are using the website at school, and the school does not allow extensions to be installed, so offering an extension is not a solution for many of your target audience.

Dark mode has been begged for over many years now, it is an accessibility issue for some users, and there is no work around for some users in your target demographic.  Can we get a better answer than "It will be be part of our conversation"?  Can you understand how that sounds hollow when that's been the answer for at least 7 years?

Hi everyone,

Thank you for continuing the conversation and sharing your thoughts about dark mode!

I wanted to clarify that the Dark Reader browser extension we recommend is actually free to use. While the developers suggest a $9.99 donation, it’s completely optional—not required. The extension is also open-source, so schools and organizations can modify it if needed. Additionally, it does not collect any user data. I’ve tested this extension myself and found that it works reasonably well on Khan Academy, especially when using the "Dynamic" theme generation mode.

As for adding an official dark mode directly to Khan Academy, we definitely understand how helpful it would be, especially for those studying at night. It’s something our team has explored. However, implementing a dark mode across a platform as large and complex as Khan Academy would require significant engineering and design resources. We’d need to:

• Build a new design system that supports dark and light themes.
• Update styles across hundreds of pages and components.
• Recreate many static images and graphics to display properly in dark mode.
• Test everything for accessibility compliance to ensure the experience works for all learners.

Because we focus most of our engineering and design resources on developing core learning features and keeping Khan Academy free for everyone, we haven’t been able to prioritize this yet, and it’s unlikely that a native dark mode will be available in the foreseeable future.

That said, we truly value your feedback and have shared it with our team so they can consider it as we plan future improvements. We have an existing tracker for Dark Mode requests and will continue to add new user feedback/posts to it in the future.

Thanks again for your input and for helping make Khan Academy better!

Evan, 

Thank you for the detailed response. 
I think the entire site was recoded about 5-8 years ago; I wish dark mode could have been part of the redesign then.

Thank you for the suggestion on the other thread that most schools should be willing to approve the extension if it is asked for.