Night Owl -Dimmer & Night Mode

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About this app

Do your eyes feel tired when you read on your phone at night? Do you have trouble falling asleep after looking at your phone's screen for a long time? Night Owl might be the solution for you!

Night Owl filters out blue light and reduces the brightness of your phone's screen more than you can achieve with Android settings, which helps you avoid eye strain, insomnia (inability to sleep), and headaches when staring at your phone in the dark.

• Dim the entire screen, notification icons, and notification drawer
• Easily adjust the filter intensity in the app or from the notification.
• Filter the blue light or customize the tint color.
• Schedule the app to start and stop automatically via timer or sun scheduler.
• Shake the device to stop the app. (optional)
• Disable auto-brightness and lower device brightness to minimum automatically when the app starts. (optional)
• Use quick setting tiles to start or stop the app quickly.

Night Owl uses the "Display over other apps" feature to put a filter on the screen to make it darker than usual and/or change its color.

Beta feature: Night Owl uses Android's accessibility feature to display a tinted overlay over the screen (including notification and lock screen) to make it darker than usual and/or change its color. Night owl does not read your screen content and does not collect any data through the Accessibility service. You need to enable Night Owl Accessibility to use the app.

Ratings and reviews

Customizable and good selection of options but it doesn't always turn on at the scheduled time. It'll wait until ~20 minutes until the scheduled time to turn on, then freezes. When it freezes, I can't access the settings to adjust the dimness. Annoying because it defaults to the last setting before the wake up time. Since I gradually increase the dimness as I go to bed, this means it will jump to the dimmest setting when it does decide to turn on. It's just annoying enough to try other apps.

Love this app because it is very easy to use and it helps a lot in darker environments. However my main concern is, it does not apply to the notification pop ups and the notification panels so it almost defeats the purpose of this app in the first place because of the notification panel stays at the original brightness whereas the rest of the screen is darker. I hope the developers could look into this issue and make it happen throughout the phone.

Everything works fine but I just think there's one function missing: it would be amazing if the filter could be gradually activated, with some transition time, from 0 to the maximum the user has selected. This would prevent the "inconvenient" abrupt change in the screen colors if you are using the phone at the time the filter is activatef automatically.

What's new

• Now compatible with Android 12
• Sun timer bug fixed