🌙How to Enable Pinterest Dark Mode
Pinterest has no dark mode on desktop. Get one free with PinDark — 11 night themes, 8 day themes, custom colours. Works on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
Pinterest offers dark mode in its mobile apps — but not on the desktop website. That's the gap PinDark fills: a free extension with 11 night themes, 8 day themes, and custom colours, built specifically for Pinterest.
🎉 Trusted by 40,000+ Pinterest users worldwide — dark mode is the single most requested Pinterest feature.
⚡ Which Option Do You Need?
📱 Dark mode on your phone
Pinterest app settings
Free
💡 PinDark and SortPin are separate extensions from the same team. Run both together — SortPin handles pin data and downloads, PinDark handles how Pinterest looks.
🎨 Method 1: PinDark — Full Themes (Recommended)
PinDark is a dedicated Pinterest dark mode extension. Unlike generic dark-mode extensions, it's built around Pinterest's own night colours rather than a blanket filter — so your pin images stay exactly as they should look.
Install links
🟢 Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Arc
🦊 Firefox
🍎 Safari (macOS 26.5+)
🍎 Safari support is the notable part. Safari can't run most Chrome extensions, so Safari users have historically had no Pinterest dark mode option at all.
🌑 11 Night Themes
Onyx
True black — best for AMOLED screens and battery
Black Cherry
Deep red-black
Persimmon
Warm dark orange
Gilded
Dark with gold accents
Mocha
Warm brown-black
Matcha
Muted dark green
Coastal
Deep blue-grey
Indigo
Rich dark blue
Aura
Soft purple-toned dark
Coquette
Soft dark pink
☀️ 8 Day Themes
Because dark mode isn't only about night — you can restyle Pinterest's daytime look too:
Apricot · Cream · Latte · Meadow · Sky · Periwinkle · Lilac · Blush
⚙️ Customisation Options
🎨 Custom colour picker
Pick any hue, or paste an exact hex code
🔄 Auto day/night switching
Follows your system appearance automatically
⬜ Squared corners
Removes Pinterest's rounded corners for a flatter look
🌗 Night-only mode
Leave daytime Pinterest untouched, apply themes only at night
⚡ No white flash
Pages load dark immediately, instead of flashing white first
📱 Side panel
Open the theme controls in a browser side panel
⚡ The white flash matters more than it sounds. Generic dark-mode extensions apply their styling after the page starts rendering, so every navigation blinks white for a moment. On a media-heavy site you scroll for an hour, that gets tiring fast.
🔒 Privacy
PinDark works offline and collects no data. It restyles the page locally in your browser — nothing about your browsing leaves your machine.
🌓 Method 2: SortPin's Built-In Dark Mode
If you already use SortPin for pin research and downloads, dark mode is built in — no second extension needed.
Where to find it
Open the SortPin panel on any Pinterest page
Go to the Appearance tab
Find the 🌙 Dark Mode section
You get two independent switches, each with Off / On / Auto:
🧩 SortPin UI
The SortPin panel itself
📌 Pinterest website
Pinterest's own interface
💡 Independent control is the useful part. You can keep Pinterest light while running the SortPin panel dark, or vice versa. Set either to Auto and it follows your system appearance.
Before and after
🖼️ Look at the pin images across both screenshots. They're unchanged. That's the difference between a Pinterest-specific dark mode and a generic one that inverts everything on the page — more on that below.
SortPin built-in vs PinDark
Dark Pinterest website
✅ Yes
✅ Yes
Dark SortPin panel
✅ Yes — controlled separately
➖ Not applicable
Auto (follow system)
✅ Yes
✅ Yes
Multiple themes
❌ On/Off only
✅ 11 night + 8 day
Custom hex colours
❌ No
✅ Yes
Squared corners
❌ No
✅ Yes
Pin data, sorting, downloads
✅ Yes
➖ Not its purpose
Use SortPin's built-in dark mode if you want Pinterest darker with no extra install and don't need theme choice.
Add PinDark if you want to pick how dark Pinterest looks — colour, mood, corner style.
👉 Install SortPin · 👉 Install PinDark
📱 Method 3: Dark Mode in the Pinterest Mobile App
The mobile apps have a native appearance setting — no extension needed.
iPhone / iPad
Open the Pinterest app
Tap your profile picture (bottom right)
Tap the ⚙️ settings gear (top right)
Go to Settings → Appearance
Choose Dark, or System default to follow iOS
Android
Open the Pinterest app
Tap your profile picture
Tap the ⚙️ settings gear
Go to Settings → Appearance
Select Dark or System default
⚠️ Pinterest reorganises its settings menu regularly. If "Appearance" isn't where described, use the search box inside Pinterest settings and type "dark" or "theme".
🚫 Why Not Just Use a Generic Dark Mode Extension?
General-purpose dark-mode extensions restyle every website with one universal filter. On a site built entirely around images, that causes real problems:
🖼️ Inverted images
Pin photos render like colour negatives
🎨 Wrong colours
Product and outfit colours become useless for research
💔 Broken layout
Pinterest's grid and overlays fight the injected CSS
🐌 Slower scrolling
Every image gets reprocessed on a media-heavy page
🔆 Poor contrast
Pin titles wash out against restyled cards
PinDark avoids all of this because it's built for one site rather than every site — it restyles Pinterest's interface and leaves the images alone.
🛠️ Troubleshooting
"Dark mode isn't applying to Pinterest"
Refresh the Pinterest tab after installing — extensions don't apply to already-open pages
Confirm the extension is enabled in your browser's extensions page
Pin it to your toolbar so you can see its state at a glance
"My pin images look inverted or discoloured"
You're running a generic dark-mode extension alongside (or instead of) PinDark. Disable the generic one on pinterest.com — PinDark doesn't touch image colours.
"Two dark modes are fighting each other"
If you have SortPin's built-in dark mode and PinDark active, pick one. Turn off SortPin's toggle and let PinDark handle appearance.
"Dark mode keeps switching back during the day"
That's auto day/night switching working as designed. To stay dark permanently, turn auto-switching off and select a night theme manually.
"It doesn't work in Safari"
Safari support requires macOS 26.5 or later and installs from the Mac App Store, not the Chrome Web Store. On older macOS, use Chrome or Firefox instead.
"Dark mode broke the SortPin panel"
Both are from the same team and are designed to coexist. If a panel is unreadable, refresh the page — and if it persists, see SortPin not working.
❓ FAQs
Q: Does Pinterest have dark mode on PC? A: Not natively — Pinterest's desktop website has no built-in dark mode toggle. PinDark adds one for free, with 11 night themes and 8 day themes.
Q: How do I make Pinterest dark mode on Chrome? A: Install PinDark from the Chrome Web Store, refresh Pinterest, and pick a theme. It also works on Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, and Arc.
Q: Is there a Pinterest dark mode for Firefox? A: Yes — install it from Firefox Add-ons. Full feature parity with the Chrome build: all 11 night themes, 8 day themes, custom colours, and auto-switching.
Q: Can I get Pinterest dark mode on Safari? A: Yes, on macOS 26.5 or later, via the Mac App Store. This is unusual — most Pinterest dark mode tools are Chrome-only.
Q: Is PinDark free? A: Yes, completely — all themes and customisation options are included with no premium tier or trial limit.
Q: Will dark mode change how my pin images look? A: No. PinDark restyles Pinterest's interface using Pinterest's own night colours and leaves image content untouched. Generic dark-mode extensions do invert images, which is why they're a poor fit for Pinterest.
Q: What's the difference between SortPin's dark mode and PinDark? A: SortPin's built-in dark mode (Appearance tab) gives you Off/On/Auto switches for the Pinterest website and the SortPin panel independently. PinDark goes further on appearance — 11 night themes, 8 day themes, custom hex colours, and squared corners.
Q: Where is dark mode in the SortPin extension? A: Open the SortPin panel → Appearance tab → Dark Mode. Set SortPin UI and Pinterest website separately to Off, On, or Auto.
Q: Does the Firefox version have the same features? A: Yes — the Firefox builds of both SortPin and PinDark have full feature parity with the Chrome versions.
Q: Can I run SortPin and PinDark at the same time? A: Yes. They're separate extensions from the same team, built to complement each other — SortPin for data and downloads, PinDark for appearance.
Q: How do I turn on dark mode in the Pinterest app? A: Profile picture → settings gear → Appearance → choose Dark or System default.
Q: Does dark mode save battery? A: On OLED and AMOLED screens, yes — the Onyx theme uses true black, which switches those pixels off entirely. On LCD screens the difference is negligible.
Q: Does PinDark collect my data? A: No. It runs offline and collects nothing — it only restyles pages locally in your browser.
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