Flashlight: LED, Widget, SOS

Nils Röthlisberger

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About this app

Flashlight is a lightweight LED torch with a home-screen widget, a Quick Settings tile, SOS, strobe, and a full-white screen light for phones without an LED. One big button to toggle. No nonsense, no clutter, no account.

TORCH AND BRIGHTNESS
- One large button, a single tap toggles the LED on or off
- Brightness slider on Pixel and other multi-level torches (Android 13+)
- Modern CameraManager API, so no jittery preview surface and no background camera leak
- Stays in sync with the system torch. Toggle from anywhere and the widget updates

HOME-SCREEN WIDGET AND QUICK SETTINGS TILE
- Single-tap widget turns the torch on without launching the app
- Quick Settings tile toggles directly from the system pull-down
- Both update live when the LED state changes elsewhere

SOS AND STROBE
- SOS Morse pattern with adjustable timing
- Strobe with selectable frequency (1 to 20 Hz)
- Custom Morse. Long-press the SOS button to send your own message

MORSE IN YOUR OWN ALPHABET
- Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese kana and Korean each blink in their own genuine Morse alphabet, the same ones telegraph operators used
- Every other script is converted automatically, so a message in Hindi, Thai, Chinese or Georgian goes out as readable Morse too
- Digits and the punctuation . , ? ! / @ & are included

SCREEN FLASHLIGHT
- Full-white screen at maximum brightness as a fallback when there is no LED
- Five colour modes for signalling, photography fill light, or reading

DESIGN AND LANGUAGES
- Material 3 interface, dark by default, edge-to-edge
- The app speaks 72 languages

TYPICAL USES
Power outages and night-time emergencies. Camping and hiking. Reading in bed. Photography fill light. Roadside repairs and vehicle inspections. Searching dark drawers, attics and crawl spaces. Signalling on a trail. Reading menus and small print in dim restaurants. Pet emergencies. Walking the dog at night.

PERMISSIONS
- Camera, required to drive the LED. Android exposes the flashlight through the camera API and no images or video are captured
- Internet, used only to load the small banner advertisement

PRIVACY
No account. No sign-up. No subscription. No in-app purchases. A small banner is served via AdMob, see the Data Safety section for AdMob's third-party disclosures. Anonymous usage metrics (which buttons get tapped) are sent via Firebase Analytics, no personal data. Made in Switzerland by an independent developer.

Get in touch: [e-mail]

Popular uses: a dimmable LED torch for camping and power cuts, a colour screen light as a soft night light or photo fill light, strobe with adjustable frequency, and Morse SOS for emergencies. Start it straight from the widget or the Quick Settings tile.

What’s new

Minor improvements and bug fixes.