Dimmer: Night Screen Overlay

Mehra Foundation

About this app

Protect your eyes from bright screen glare during nighttime use with Dimmer! 📱✨

Dimmer is a lightweight, premium utility designed to make night reading and screen time comfortable. It goes beyond your device's standard minimum brightness settings by applying a customizable, translucent dark overlay and a warm amber color filter.

🌟 Key Features

🌙 Extra Dimming Controls: Lower your screen's brightness level below the system default to protect your eyes in pitch-black rooms.
🔥 Warm Amber Filter: Filter out harsh blue light and adjust color warmth to create a relaxing, sleep-friendly screen tone.
⚡ Quick Presets: Instantly switch between optimized modes with a single tap:
🛌 Sleeping – Ultra-dim for complete darkness.
📖 Reading– Extra warm filter for comfortable book reading.
🎬 Cinema – Cool, low-glare screen dimming for media playback.
🌃 Midnight – Perfect balance of dimming and warm tone.
🔒 Advanced Safety Controls: Built-in safety caps prevent you from accidentally dimming your screen to 100% black, ensuring you never lock yourself out.
⚙️ Quick Settings Tile: Toggle the dimmer service directly from your Android notification drawer without opening the app.

🛡️ Privacy & Security First

Zero Data Collection: We value your privacy. Dimmer does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data or usage analytics. It works entirely offline! 🔌
No Advertisements: Enjoy a clean, distraction-free premium utility with no ads whatsoever.

🔑 Permissions Explained

To draw the dimming filter over your screen, Dimmer requires:
Display Over Other Apps (Overlay): Essential to apply the dimming filter over all other running applications.
Post Notifications: Required on Android 13+ to show the persistent controller notification so you can easily toggle or turn off the dimmer service at any time.

Note: Dimmer is designed as a daily utility tool to reduce eye glare and improve visual comfort; it does not claim to diagnose, cure, or prevent any medical conditions.

What’s new

Welcome to the initial launch of Dimmer! 🎉
🌙 Extra Dimming: Go below minimum system brightness.
🔥 Amber Filter: Transition from blue light to warm tones.
⚡ Presets: Fast toggle for Sleeping, Reading & Cinema.
🛡️ Safety Lock: Protection against blacking out screen.
⚙️ Quick Tile: Control dimmer from notifications.
🔒 Private: Offline, no ads, no data collection.