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Darker (Screen Filter)

Livemlhgdevelopment3 apps · 4.4M installsHealth & FitnessFreeIn-app purchases: $2.99 per itemcom.mlhg.screenfilter

Darker can lower your screen brightness to extremely low levels.

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Total installs
3,120,485
exact · Play shows 1,000,000+
Installs / day
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measured after our second crawl (about a day)
Rating
3.8★
22K ratings · 860 reviews
Released
19 Oct 2013
13y ago
Last update
22 Aug 2026
2mo ago
Countries
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not checked yet

Install history

exact counter from Google Play
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Installs per day · last 90 days

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Change timeline

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

estimate · charts of 11 Oct

Most downloads likely come from 🇮🇳 India (~100%).

  1. India100%#84 Trending · Health & fitness

Estimated from top-chart positions weighted by each country’s Google Play market size. Countries where the app is not in a chart are not shown, so small markets may be missing.

Top chart positions

as of 11 Oct
ChartCountryRankChange
Trending · Health & fitness IN#84—

App manifest

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Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play
  • No data shared with third parties
  • No data collected

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

5 in 2 groups
1 Sensitive2 Notable2 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Show its own windows or bubbles on top of other apps you are using
Device & app historyNotable1

Access to which apps you run, system logs, and your web browsing history

  • See which apps are running or were recently used on your deviceretrieve running apps · GET_TASKS
OtherSensitive4

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Show its own windows or bubbles on top of other apps you are usingdraw over other apps · SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW
  • Start itself automatically as soon as your phone finishes turning onrun at startup · RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
  • Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
Darker can lower your screen brightness to extremely low levels, to help prevent eyestrain during the night. Use the built-in color filter* to adjust the color of your display, perfect for filtering out harsh white backgrounds during the night. This app is fully functional and does not include advertisements. Additional paid features are unlockable through an In-app purchase. Xiaomi device / MIUI users need to go to Settings → Installed apps → Darker → Other permissions, and enable "Display pop-up window" for Darker to work correctly. Paid features include: » Auto-On & Auto-Off » Start at boot » Lower brightness below 20% » Darken navigation bar » Custom filter colors » Root mode » Customizable notification buttons • Up to three buttons can be added for quick access. • Buttons to increase and decrease the brightness (+5%, -5%, +10%, -10%) • Buttons to set a specific brightness (@0%, @10%, @20%, ... , @90%, @100%) • Quick toggles (stop, pause, reset, color filter) Note: When manually installing APK files, Android blocks the "Install" button from being pressed when Darker is running. This is NOT a bug. It's a protective measure to prevent malicious apps from camouflaging the install button. Pausing Darker will solve this. Darker requires the use of accessibility services to darken the screen, no data will be accessed or shared via the AccessibilityService API. *The color filter is similar to how the desktop version of f.lux works. Selecting a redder color will reduce more bluelight emitted from the display. Tasker Support Darker has Tasker support, use these intents to send commands to Darker: darker.STOP darker.PAUSE darker.INCREASE_5 darker.INCREASE_10 darker.DECREASE_5 darker.DECREASE_10 darker.SET_10 darker.SET_20 darker.SET_30 darker.SET_40 darker.SET_50 darker.SET_60 darker.SET_70 darker.SET_80 darker.SET_90 darker.SET_100 darker.TOGGLE_COLOR darker.ENABLE_COLOR darker.DISABLE_COLOR Add the above intents to Tasker by going to Action Category→System→Send Intent→Action, leave the other fields default, and note that the intents are case sensitive. These two intents below need an additional parameter in the "Extra" field darker.SETCOLOR "Extra" field: COLOR:1~16 (Colors are numbered left to right, top to bottom) darker.COLORSTRENGTH "Extra" field: STRENGTH:1~10 The intent below needs the "Target" field set to "Service" darker.START FlickStart Support Darker can work in conjunction with FlickStart, an app which can send commands to Darker by using the sensors on your phone or Android Wear device. The command set for Darker is available for download on the FlickStart website. Simply download the command set and import it into FlickStart.

What's new

- Fixed some Android 17 bugs - Updated to Android 17 SDK - Updated accessibility service troubleshooting section for some devices with aggressive task killers/ram cleaners (If the accessibility service keeps getting disabled, you need to add Darker to the system whitelist, to prevent the system from stopping it)

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