Flashlight: Android app that lets you control torch brightness
Details
- External ID
- 46627926
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Flashlight: Android app that lets you control torch brightness
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2549407114624506
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Android app that finally lets you control flashlight brightness, add strobing with multiple frequencies. It's beautiful, seamless and open source!
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- android torch brightness controller
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward native Android utility app that exposes Android 13's CameraManager torch brightness control APIs and pulse timers.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 61 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 62 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 74 days after the earliest competitor.
- BetterNightLight · github · 2026-09-18 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Spectra Flashlight & Light Tools · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Brightness Control · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Night Light & Sleep Sounds · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Tejora · ph · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Screen Bright · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- TaxiCatcher Light · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- afterlight · github · 2026-09-14 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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