# Flashlight: LED, Widget, SOS > LED torch with widget, Quick Settings tile, SOS, strobe, color screen light. Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/ch.roethlisberger.flashlight](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ch.roethlisberger.flashlight) ## Overview - **ID:** `ch.roethlisberger.flashlight` - **Platform:** Android - **Type:** Android app - **Status:** Available - **Publisher:** Nils Röthlisberger - **Category:** TOOLS - **Downloads:** 102 - **Version:** 1.7.0 - **Last updated:** 2026-08-24 - **First published:** 2026-06-09 - **Publisher country:** CH - **Size:** 7.88 MB - **Data as of:** 2026-09-10 - **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.roethlisberger.flashlight) - **Website:** [https://tourist105.github.io/](https://tourist105.github.io/) - **Privacy policy:** [https://tourist105.github.io/privacy/](https://tourist105.github.io/privacy/) ## Description Flashlight is a lightweight LED torch with a home-screen widget, a Quick Settings tile, SOS, strobe, and a full-white screen light for phones without an LED. One big button to toggle. No nonsense, no clutter, no account.

TORCH AND BRIGHTNESS
- One large button, a single tap toggles the LED on or off
- Brightness slider on Pixel and other multi-level torches (Android 13+)
- Modern CameraManager API, so no jittery preview surface and no background camera leak
- Stays in sync with the system torch. Toggle from anywhere and the widget updates

HOME-SCREEN WIDGET AND QUICK SETTINGS TILE
- Single-tap widget turns the torch on without launching the app
- Quick Settings tile toggles directly from the system pull-down
- Both update live when the LED state changes elsewhere

SOS AND STROBE
- SOS Morse pattern with adjustable timing
- Strobe with selectable frequency (1 to 20 Hz)
- Custom Morse. Long-press the SOS button to send your own message

MORSE IN YOUR OWN ALPHABET
- Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese kana and Korean each blink in their own genuine Morse alphabet, the same ones telegraph operators used
- Every other script is converted automatically, so a message in Hindi, Thai, Chinese or Georgian goes out as readable Morse too
- Digits and the punctuation . , ? ! / @ & are included

SCREEN FLASHLIGHT
- Full-white screen at maximum brightness as a fallback when there is no LED
- Five colour modes for signalling, photography fill light, or reading

DESIGN AND LANGUAGES
- Material 3 interface, dark by default, edge-to-edge
- The app speaks 72 languages

TYPICAL USES
Power outages and night-time emergencies. Camping and hiking. Reading in bed. Photography fill light. Roadside repairs and vehicle inspections. Searching dark drawers, attics and crawl spaces. Signalling on a trail. Reading menus and small print in dim restaurants. Pet emergencies. Walking the dog at night.

PERMISSIONS
- Camera, required to drive the LED. Android exposes the flashlight through the camera API and no images or video are captured
- Internet, used only to load the small banner advertisement

PRIVACY
No account. No sign-up. No subscription. No in-app purchases. A small banner is served via AdMob, see the Data Safety section for AdMob's third-party disclosures. Anonymous usage metrics (which buttons get tapped) are sent via Firebase Analytics, no personal data. Made in Switzerland by an independent developer.

Get in touch: nils.roethlisberger@gmx.ch

Popular uses: a dimmable LED torch for camping and power cuts, a colour screen light as a soft night light or photo fill light, strobe with adjustable frequency, and Morse SOS for emergencies. Start it straight from the widget or the Quick Settings tile. ## Rankings - #1,972,324 — Overall ## Permissions and access ### Permissions - `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID` - `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION` - `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS` - `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE` - `android.permission.CAMERA` - `android.permission.FLASHLIGHT` - `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE` - `android.permission.INTERNET` - `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK` - `ch.roethlisberger.flashlight.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION` - `com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE` - `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE` - `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID` ## Similar extensions and apps - [Flashlight](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.bartoszMlot.flashlight) — 14,442 users - [Flashlight Torch: LED & SOS](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.lionheartapps.rk.flashlight) — 287 users - [Flashlight -Digital Torchlight](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.md2.flashlight) — 33 users - [Flashlight: LED Torch & SOS](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.stridulationinc.flashlight) — 901 users - [Flashlight: Torch + SOS](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.charles.flashlight) — 12 users - [Flashlight SOS](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.timestech.flashlightsos) — 289 users - [Flashlight: One-Tap Torch](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.a13softdev.flashlight) — 370,213 users, 4.11 / 5 - [Flashly - LED Torch Flashlight](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.chora.Flashly) — 590 users - [Simple Flashlight with Widget](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.mrap.sma.lightning) — 1,877 users, 3.67 / 5 - [Flashlight](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.tinteractive.flashlight) — 1 users - [Flashlight: Torch & SOS Light](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.quickflashlight.torchapp) — 8,491 users - [OneTap Torch](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.simplemobiletools.gamerverseflashlight) — 710 users --- Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ch.roethlisberger.flashlight)