Keep Screen On

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About this app

You are reading a recipe with wet hands. You are showing someone a photo. You are following a PDF manual while you assemble a shelf.
The screen goes dark right then — every time.
Android only lets you change the screen timeout for everything at once, and then you forget to change it back.

■ One tap on, one tap off

· Tap the Quick Settings tile or the home screen widget
· Tap it again and it stops right there
· Choose up to three of 3 · 5 · 10 · 30 · 60 minutes and "until I stop"

■ The status bar tells you how long

· The notification says how many minutes you picked
· The small icon changes too — 10 · 30 · ∞ — so you know without pulling the shade down
· Stopping is one tap on that notification

■ Or let a chosen app do it

· Pick an app and the screen stays on only while that app is in front
· Leave the app and the screen goes back to normal
· Browser, PDF, notes, gallery — anything you look at without touching

■ Your system setting is never changed

This app never writes to your screen timeout. Not once.
· Nothing is ever drawn on top of your apps

■ What costs money

· Quick Settings — pull down from the status bar — and the home widget are free, always
· Every timer — 3 to 60 minutes and until you stop — is free too
· Only automatic mode, on by itself while your chosen apps are open, is a one-time purchase. Not a subscription

■ What is not here

· No ads
· No account, no sign-in
· No subscription
· No server — the apps and times you chose stay on this phone

■ Worth knowing

· "Display over other apps" is required. That is how the screen is held on
· Automatic mode needs "Usage access". Turn it down and manual mode still works
· The notification permission exists so there is always a place to stop it

16 languages — 한국어 · English · 日本語 · 中文(繁體) · 中文(简体) · Español · Português (Brasil) · Deutsch · Français · Italiano · Русский · Türkçe · Tiếng Việt · ไทย · Bahasa Indonesia · हिन्दी

What’s new

First release.
One tap from the Quick Settings tile or the home screen widget, and the screen stays on for the time you picked. Tap again and it stops.
Or pick an app — the screen stays on only while that app is in front.
Your system screen timeout is never changed.