Night Mode - Blue Light Filter

Fulmine Software

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About this app

Faster falling asleep & relax
Night Mode app filters blue light that according to the latest research studies boosts alertness and may affect your natural sleep and wake cycles (circadian rythm). Additionally it precisely controls screen color temperature to setup the best light to calm down and relax.

Protect your eyes
When using your device at night or twilight, even minimum screen brightness may tire your eyes. Shift to Night Mode to turn on extra screen brightness reduction by dedicated dim filter as well as by main blue light filter.

Do not disturb others
If you sleep with other person or use your device in places where screen light may disturb others, this app is for you.

Read comfortable in bed
If you are night owl that uses your mobile in bed for browsing Internet or reading, this app can prevent turning off the screen as well as lock screen rotation to any orientation you like, even upside down.

Quick shift
Just shake your device to turn into Night Mode and back (this is additional feature to turn on in app's settings).
For Nougat users it's possible to add Quick Settings Tile to quickly shift to Night Mode.
Automatic scheduler can switch Night Mode by preferred time, for example turn on on twilight and off in the morning.

Save battery power
Night Mode lowers battery power consumption by reducing blue light and screen highlight.

Customization
Night Mode has many customization options like blue light filter color temperature, intensity, shaking sensitivity, notification visibility, pause duration, app theme and more.

Permissions
Draw over other apps – required to overlay the blue light filter.
Run at startup – to allow scheduling and keep filter on/off state during device restarts.
Network access – to allow bug reporting (optional) and showing ads (not many).

Accessibility Service
The app will ask you to enable the accessibility service.
Enabling the service is optional, but useful if you want to apply the blue light filter over notifications, lock screen, system navigation bar and some other system windows.
The app uses this service only to apply the filter over other apps.
The app does not collect data in connection with the accessibility service.

Ratings and reviews

App worked like it should. However, I noticed a glaring problem. It wouldn't allow my screen to power off. I have it set to turn my screen off after ten minutes and this app prevented that. I lost over 30% of my battery last night. Great app and I truly do like it. Small issue hopefully easy fix.

Doesn't work on a Samsung mobile phone. My original review dated 29th March 2022, as it prevents access to actual apps. That's still the case! Don't know what bug you're referring to. Reinstalled it, but found an app I'd replaced this with, Night Owl, was far more easy to operate. It's also free, with many more features: adjustable colours in addition to brightness, and an on/off time schedule. Am sticking with that, as all blue light can be omitted.

This app is malware! DON'T INSTALL! After purchasing it I found it would use the camera flash to try to take a portrait shot of me every time I used sensitive apps. This would happen when I used Google apps, social media apps, and banking. I don't know what other sensitive information it was trying to steal other than a portrait photo of me. I removed all the permissions for the camera to prevent it doing this before I eventually discovered it was the culprit!

What's new

Changes:
- Moved setting exact or approximate filter scheduling to the main app's screen "Schedule" section.
- Better support for Android 14.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed filter on/off scheduling sometimes not working.
- Improved app stability.