Screen Filter

- April 17, 2014

Everyone

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( 121,776)

Description

Applies a shade that acts as a dimmer to ensure your eyes don't hurt. Far more powerful than Android's built-in brightness setting. Great for low-light gaming, web browsing, and eBook reading. It even saves battery life for AMOLED displays!

More features:
- Widgets: Easy access to preset brightness levels.
- Tasker/Locale Plug-in! Set brightness based on time/place/etc. To disable, configure for 100% brightness.
- Brightness slider uses logarithmic scale for fine-grained control.
- Drag the app icon to your desktop to use for toggling on/off.
- Prompts to confirm very low brightness settings.
- Option to disable soft-key backlight (does not work on all phones).

NOTE:
*** If you accidentally make your screen go BLACK ***
1. Pull your battery or (Nexus7) hold power button for 10 seconds
2. Uninstall the app to reset your bad brightness setting
3. Reinstall the app and use it normally again

This app will always be free! If you want to show your appreciation, please donate to Wikipedia on my behalf (and let me know you did):

https://donate.wikimedia.org

Thank you! Email me if you have any other problems or questions I haven't mentioned.

Reviews

4.5

121,776 total

5 86,125

4 19,459

3 7,549

2 3,136

1 5,507

Kenneth Foggie

Does it's job. Still some issues Great at extending my battery with phones who's screens are unnecessarily bright. A few issues. While screen filter is on... you can't install apks from your phone( making about apks downloaded to ur phone, not the play store). You have to disable the filter first. Sometimes issues pulling up the keyboard while filter is enabled. The real problem is that you don't actually knows the filter causing the issue.... And you might think ur phone is having a problem. The only other issue is, screen shots are dim

Alex Rattray

Works great Terrific app. I like the UX style, which is creative and unique. I would suggest adding an alternative way to to select the filter percentage, like a raw number input (I often like going between, say, 30 and 60 percent depending on scenario, and it's annoying to get back to the previous one. Also, people like round numbers). Also, I just donated $5 to Wikimedia with the author in mind (could not find a place to specifically make it on their behalf). Thanks!

Adrian Silo

Simple Yet Effective Way to Dim Displays With Precise Controls All this app does is apply a black filter that darkens the display. This is perfect for AMOLED displays where the display drains more battery the brighter the display is. The app itself is lightweight, and allows precise percentage controls to control how dark the display will be, which is a big plus for me. The app does catch if you put the darkness level too low and will revert back in time, which is great since putting in too dark values can happen. It's simple, lightweight, and offers fine tuned controls. This is a must for devices that have displays that drain battery based on brightness.

Piotrek

It's great app.Iv been using this for quite long now and I can't imagine using my phone at night without it. Even though shaded light maked non amoled screens look really bad... Additionally recent update makes it flashing with full brighrness when turning on or off some of apps whe soft ley backlight is enabled

Amy Yaeger

No longer works when using apps Used to be 5 stars now the screen only dims light in my home page. When I use any apps and even the lock screen is at normal brightness. It sucks because the light definately affects my circadian rhythm again. When the dimmer worked correctly it helped me get a good night sleep. I will try a new app.

Trinesan Govender

Great! Almost perfect 👌 Works exactly as it says.. Still has that brightness spike when exiting an app using the BACK or HOME button. Haven't noticed it when switching through "recent apps" though.. Also the dark screenshot issue (perhaps make the brightness spike then?) and non-editible widgets. But the SCREENSHOT issue is the most serious I'd say. Other than that, this app saves my eyes and (possibly) my battery, and that makes it freaking awesome! 😉

User reviews

Kenneth Foggie October 12, 2014

Alex Rattray March 23, 2015

Adrian Silo August 11, 2014

Piotrek April 23, 2014

Amy Yaeger April 8, 2015

Trinesan Govender June 26, 2015

Elly Ketchum May 16, 2017

Great App, thumbs up for developer -simple, no ads and most importantly does what is supposed to. Just I've got a Sony xPeria M5 and whenever I switch between Apps it lightens up for a split second. If that happens to other phones aswell would be cool if you could have a look at it :)

Joseph Estur July 31, 2016

No S5 Flickering at Low Brightness I would rate it 6 stars. My Samsung Galaxy s5 flickers when set at low brightness, been dealing with this annoying problem for several months now and can't find a solution online and even phone repair services cant do anything about it. This app did the job, no flickering at low brightness. This will definitely save your eyes.

Michael Williams January 9, 2015

Served me well for years I have used this app for 3+ years, and have never been disappointed with it. Works exactly as I needed. It's essential to my nightly ritual of reading myself to sleep. I can turn off all my bedroom lights, dim my phone/tablet screen to 8-12% brightness, and it's plenty dark enough to fall asleep by and cause no eye strain.

16Dannyboy July 10, 2015

UV 400 My favorite time to read is at night on my nook hd tablet. there's always one problem I've always tried to overlook, and couldn't anymore. No matter what fonts, background colors or brightness scales I changed, my eyes were always strained. I thought I could tough it out but nope. I was about to buy a kindke paperwhite,but then I found this app and it is AWESOME. Its like wearing shades against the ridiculously bright LCD tablet screen and I love it.! Def recommend for night readers on tablets

santosh kulkarni November 18, 2014

10* App , I really love this app Great app .. Tips how to use it.. 1.click on this app , it will come in Notification bar. 2. Just click on that and you will see the brightness in percentage decrease as u want. Note:- dont decrease below than 25 otherwise you will not able to see the screen and if done by mistake dont worry just lock and unlock two times it will automatically disable if ur screen completly got black.

Nathan Wicks June 29, 2015

Deadly glitch. This app is a great tool for browsing at night when the screen is too bright even when it's on the lowest Android setting. The only trouble is that every so often it konks out and I get completely blinded and have to fumble my way around my home screen to press the widget to turn it on again to reduce the saintly amount of light being beamed from my screen. Great app but needs a tiny fix.

April 7, 2017

Hmm, app works really well and unlike others isn't bloated / require stupid permissions BUT then why does it interfere with the install button when you download amazonunderground appstore? Go ahead. Install this app, use it and then try installing the amazonunderground appstore and you'll find it refuses to let you click install! Close Screen Filter and you can install without issue. Underhanded programming at work here: BEWARE. Using Hudl1 tablet in the UK.

Eloise Awesomeballs December 9, 2015

Amazing HTC ONE + SAMSUNG GALAXY S6 I have used this for both my phones (in the title) and it works great with both of them. I have no idea if it reduces power or not but it for sure reduces screen brightness. In my experience this was the first App that ever worked for screen dimming and it is still the best :)

ronda ツ December 25, 2014

Not yet sure about battery usage. Big difference in phone temperature ==== does not get as hot 👍 & easy on eyes ⊙_⊙ tytyty! (=legally blind user that has to hold the bright light close to see). Have A Safe Day ! PEACE

Melissa Cornwell November 15, 2016

The app that follows every phone. Everytime I get a new phone, this is the first app downloaded and one of the top used. I'm not sure but I believe it reduces the evil blue lights lol. My eyes never hurt when its on and it's so easy to use! One of my favorite apps ever, yet so simple!

Thomas Harris December 24, 2016

Saves your eyes, your battery, enhances night vision, reduces glare Reduce glare, wear, and tear on your eyes, especially at night🌙 and/or other low-light environments. A few simple settings, one easy switch. Zero drawbacks(unless darkening your screen in broad daylight to extent its unreadable). Highly recommended, esp since white screens require so much energy to produce. 🙏 A 👆-✌-👊 solution. 👍👍

Mahesh R S January 7, 2015

loved it till i realized ... i had installed this app and used it on 3 of my tablets and phones. for a long time i felt like this app would intentionally brighten the screen after it was shut off. but i had no way to prove it. recently i acquired 2 exactly similar phones & installed this app on one but not the other. and lo-n-behold my feeling was confirmed. on one phone i can turn down screen brightness quite a bit but not on the phone where this app is installed. this app mucked with my phones brightness setting.

Will Sheppard April 30, 2017

Used to work great on Nexus, but has serious bugs on Pixel with Android 7.1.1. "pulses slightly when changing activities" -- this actually means it returns to full brightness for half a second, lighting up the whole room and waking up my child. Also it returns to full brightness when certain pop-up dialog boxes appear. Not really good enough anymore.

A Google User July 13, 2014

Simple, light, and effective. I've been using this app for a few years now, with 4 different AMOLED devices. I don't just use this app at night, I run it at 40% with the backlight on auto for everywhere but in sunlight. Original review: Exactly what I wanted. Easy to adjust level. One-touch desktop icon takes up minimum space, and doesn't have the load of a widget. LG Ally.

Ian Steele-Avery December 8, 2016

Absolutely perfect Small app, dims my screen, no ads. Literally ZERO downsides! I hit open after installing the app expecting to have to set it up or see a few ads or whatever but no, my screen just dimmed and an icon popped up in my notification bar...that was it! I cannot stress how thankful I am for this app and this developer.

Kelsey Overall September 16, 2014

Amazing You will not find another app that will do the job better. Minimal space and battery usage. If you set the brightness lower than 15%, it will ask you to confirm that you want it that low. After 10 seconds if theres no response, the app will reset back to the previous brightness percentage. I love that.

scotty P January 19, 2016

Luh it Last night i be watchin som o dat good good stuff fo 4 hours and by the time i was done ma eyeball be red and bout to pop out, then lilRay tol me bout this thang to dim the phone. I uze it and now cant see the good good scence o dem good good. But my eyes is better. Win win. Westside. Biggie was behind Tupac shootin. Fo real.

Aureliano Skirzewski July 15, 2015

Unbeatable! The best light dimmer! I use it almost everyday to read at night together with moonreader! Yet i wish it could control or increase contrasts because, if lights are dimmed too much, the background mixes with what should be lighted. Additionally, now I am having trouble with my screen that does not light uniformly and the lower parts of the screen are already too dark while the upper parts still burn my eyes... perhaps you could improve this beautifully simple app introducing gradients in the filter 😅

Super BaBilon April 5, 2015

Well... Before this came out, I always hurt my eyes when playing with my phone at night. Like dis if your eyes bleeding evrytim lel . This app is just too simple yet effective, it's too light weight and doesn't consume any ram at all... ( my feeling XD ) Trust me m8, this app truly worth 5 stars...

Johnny G July 9, 2014

Greatest program ever! This is by far the best screen brightness reducer I have ever used. My eyes would hurt badly if I was not able to use this program, because my phone's brightness default level is always so high. This program is extremely small, efficient and it respects its users privacy. Thank you so much for writing this program!

Usara August 4, 2014

Holy Zero Be careful with this app. Setting the brightness to Zero in a bright room will leave the screen nearly black. Luckily it was night time so I turned off all of the lights in attempt to revert the setting back (even though there was a safety feature). The app does what it's supposed to do and that's all I ask for.

Charley B April 11, 2017

I'm not sure why you can't set brightness "on the fly" as in other apps like this. (Hides itself each time) Still the smallest, simplest and most stable of its kind that I have seen. :) Don't fall for other overlay apps like this that claim to save power. And now that the "Blue Light" is being debunked by science, you don't have to get a huge paid alternative.

July 29, 2014

Simple & works perfectly 5 stars for requiring NO permissions! There are loads of free screen dimmers but why do they need access to your calls, contacts, location or web history? They don't! Kudos to this one for being exactly what is says it is. Love it.

JoeyLynne Perry September 21, 2016

Good app Love this app but on my new galaxy note 5 it doesn't dim the soft keys. The screen will be perfectly dim then those keys light up and blind me. It worked on my s3 so I'm very sad about it. :-(

Madhuri Nemali April 26, 2014

Love it, but . . . I appreciate this even more after trying out some of the other dimmer apps. It's a clean, simple interface that does exactly what you want it to. Except for the soft-key button backlight. I know it's a known issue for S3s, I'm hoping it will have a fix soon.

Brook Powers July 10, 2015

Cool, but... This app is fantastic for when I'm scrolling in bed late at night (like I am right now) and I don't want to wake up my husband. The biggest bummer? Because the app darkens your screen's image and does not actually adjust the brightness, any screenshots are super dark!

Zach Merrin October 26, 2015

Great, with some room for improvement Great app, use it all the time at night... BUT would be better if brightness slider, edit button and % were not on the same horizontal line so you could have better control over the level. Also right now with the exponential sliding scale almost half the slider is below 10% which is basically unusable. A couple of presets would be nice too, 10, 15, 25, 50... Also sometimes there are flashes of bright while switching apps or tabs or changing the brightness level.

Sarah Carroll August 18, 2014

Mixed Worked just as I wanted it to for a few days, but now it randomly turns itself off. If I wait a few minutes it reappears in the top bar, but still has to be manually switched back on to actually...work. If I do that, the problem just repeats a few minutes later. My phone is kind of old but this seems like a simple enough app. Will update if the problem is fixed, otherwise I'll be uninstalling soon.

Jamie Gallagher July 27, 2015

Meh It works great until it just... doesn't. It has a tendency to crash whenever I'm browsing online and I refresh or load a new page. Then BAM! I'm blinded and I have to exit out of everything to hit the button again. Cue vicious cycle. Otherwise I'd give it 5 stars.

Raquel Panotes November 16, 2015

PERFECT FOR MY EYES!!! Guys I tried one application in here Which I thought is right for me but I felt may eyes is in pain using it... the light is strong for some reason even I keep adjusting it,thinking that I'm not adjusting it right ,but the more im use it my eyes hurts...so I decided to unstalled it,then I found this Application and what can I say its PERFECT for my eyes easy to use and its really what i wanted... and I would like to thank u for this application guys :) ... now my eyes is feeling better. CHEERS!

Rolando Arbitrario July 6, 2014

Great app!!! This is a must app for those brightness that is still too bright even at 0%. Though it is very dangerous to have 0% brightness with 0% filter, there's the possibility of total blackout on your phone especially when you are too sleepy configuring this stuff. I would like to suggest, maybe just make the lowest level around 30-40%. Also the range slider's UI is not correct on the percentage/value. Overall superb!

Takudzwa Mugabe December 28, 2014

Cool Could u please include a way to quickly remove the filter thru the persistent notification, please? Right now clicking the notification does both remove the screen filter AS WELL AS open the app settings - I would love for it to just remove the filter only.... just like the Screen Dimmer app does! So maybe u could include that as a setting for "what happens when you click the persistent notification?" Maybe? Otherwise this app does the best in dealing with the Nexus 5 on screen buttons imo.

David Needham September 10, 2014

How is this not a standard OS app? This is an essential app for all smartphones. Have you ever read your phone in the dark? This dims the screen to the perfect amount. UPDATE: I've been using the Twilight app lately add it automatically manages the brightness and color tone for even better nighttime viewing.

Eric Green June 20, 2017

Used this on multiple Android with BLINDING bright screens even at stock dimmest settings. This fast capable app dims all but OS alert overlays on some versions of android. Great for car passengers at night to keep from affecting drivers night vision.