# Red Light

> Shows red screen to light the night without ruining your night time vision.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.apporilla.redlight](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.apporilla.redlight)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.apporilla.redlight`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Apporilla
- **Category:** TOOLS
- **Downloads:** 423,412
- **Rating:** 3.29 / 5 (808 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.2
- **Last updated:** 2025-07-02
- **First published:** 2012-11-28
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Size:** 4.36 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apporilla.redlight)
- **Website:** [http://apporilla.com](http://apporilla.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.apporilla.com/Privacy](https://www.apporilla.com/Privacy)

## Description

Red Light is a handy Chrome extension designed to help preserve your night vision while providing gentle illumination using a red screen. Perfect for nighttime activities like camping, astronomy, or any scenario where maintaining natural night vision is important, Red Light features adjustable brightness controls to suit your needs. It's lightweight with a small download size and completely free of ads, ensuring a smooth and distraction-free experience. Developed out of personal need and now shared for everyone's benefit, this tool is essential for those who require subtle lighting without compromising their eyes' adaptation to darkness.

## Rankings

- #109,263 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `com.apporilla.redlight.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

## Review summary

Red Light is a simple, focused tool that provides a basic red screen for night use and light-pollution-friendly navigation. Users praise its simplicity, usefulness for stargazing and quiet environments, and absence of color-changing ads. Main drawbacks are that it does not make the entire screen red, lacks global brightness or timer controls, can conflict with other apps, and has compatibility issues on some Android versions. Overall, it's a pragmatic, no-frills red-light utility with some usability trade-offs.

### Pros

- Simple, single-purpose red-light app that does exactly what it promises.
- Excellent for night use (stargazing, dark parks) and for navigating without disturbing surroundings (less disturbance to bees, etc.).
- Easy to use and lightweight; effectively displays red light.
- No ads that change the color of the light.
- Generally reliable and straightforward.

### Cons

- Doesn't make the whole screen red; a band of white light at the bottom defeats the red-light effect.
- Only adjusts brightness within the app; cannot control the phone's global brightness or set a timer to auto-off.
- Can interfere with other apps (e.g., video streaming may freeze when red screen is active).
- Not fully operable on some Android versions (compatibility issues).
- Slider position is forgotten and color/brightness may not match on some screens; system navigation bars aren't hidden.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.apporilla.redlight)