Flashlight Widget

Name: Flashlight Widget
Rating: 4.419048 (13828 reviews)
Author: David Medenjak

By: David Medenjak

Small and stable Flashlight Widget. No ads.

Features & Capabilities

Flashlight Widget is a minimalist and lightweight tool that utilizes your device's camera flash to provide instant illumination. Designed as a simple widget to be placed on your homescreen, it offers a one-press toggle for the LED flash with no unnecessary permissions or ads. Sized under 30kb, this stable widget ensures efficient use without compromising device performance.

Built with privacy in mind, the widget only requires camera permission to access the flash and wake lock to keep the light active when your screen is off. The source code is openly available on GitHub under the MIT License, promoting transparency and trust. Ideal for users who want a straightforward, ad-free flashlight solution directly accessible from their homescreen without cluttering their app drawer.

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VARY Last updated: 2019-05-31

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2014-05-23

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2026-06-24

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Developed by:

David Medenjak

Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.bleeding182.flashlight

Email:

da*****@gmail.com

Website:

http://blog.davidmedenjak.com/minimalist-flashlight/

User Reviews

Users praise the Flashlight Widget for its simple, lightweight design, ad-free experience, and reliability across many devices, plus easy home-screen placement. However, recurring issues include breakage after updates, dimness or lack of brightness control on some devices, device-specific sizing or alignment problems, occasional crashes, and moments when the widget disappears or is hard to relocate. Overall, it’s a handy, unobtrusive tool that works well on many devices but has notable reliability and UI quirks on certain models and Android versions.

Pros

Simple, lightweight widget with minimal UI
Reliable across many devices and generally easy to use
Ad-free experience (no ads)
Bright light when it works and covers a wide area
Easy to place on the home screen as a quick on/off widget

Cons

Updates can cause it to stop functioning or break (reliability after updates)
Brightness can be dim or not adjustable on some devices
Device-specific sizing/alignment issues (e.g., too small on certain phones) and UI placement quirks
Crashes or causes the home/launcher to crash when interacted with
Occasional disappearance or difficulty relocating the widget on the home screen