# Flashlight Widget

> Small and stable Flashlight Widget. No ads.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/at.bleeding182.flashlight](https://chrome-stats.com/d/at.bleeding182.flashlight)

## Overview

- **ID:** `at.bleeding182.flashlight`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** David Medenjak
- **Category:** TOOLS
- **Downloads:** 1,632,315
- **Rating:** 4.39 / 5 (13,815 ratings)
- **Last updated:** 2019-05-25
- **First published:** 2014-05-23
- **Publisher country:** AT
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.bleeding182.flashlight)
- **Website:** [http://blog.davidmedenjak.com/minimalist-flashlight/](http://blog.davidmedenjak.com/minimalist-flashlight/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://bleeding182.github.io/minimalist-flashlight/privacy.html](http://bleeding182.github.io/minimalist-flashlight/privacy.html)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #51,197 — Overall

## Review summary

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

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