Night Owl -Dimmer & Night Mode

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3.8
17.1K reviews
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Do your eyes feel tired when you read on your phone at night? Do you have trouble falling asleep after looking at your phone's screen for a long time? Night Owl might be the solution for you!

Night Owl filters out blue light and reduces the brightness of your phone's screen more than you can achieve with Android settings, which helps you avoid eye strain, insomnia (inability to sleep), and headaches when staring at your phone in the dark.

• Dim the entire screen, notification icons, and notification drawer
• Easily adjust the filter intensity in the app or from the notification.
• Filter the blue light or customize the tint color.
• Schedule the app to start and stop automatically via timer or sun scheduler.
• Shake the device to stop the app. (optional)
• Disable auto-brightness and lower device brightness to minimum automatically when the app starts. (optional)
• Use quick setting tiles to start or stop the app quickly.

Night Owl uses the "Display over other apps" feature to put a filter on the screen to make it darker than usual and/or change its color.

Beta feature: Night Owl uses Android's accessibility feature to display a tinted overlay over the screen (including notification and lock screen) to make it darker than usual and/or change its color. Night owl does not read your screen content and does not collect any data through the Accessibility service. You need to enable Night Owl Accessibility to use the app.
Updated on
Nov 5, 2021

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
App info and performance and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.9
16.5K reviews
Ellie Lincoln
October 27, 2023
Customizable and good selection of options but it doesn't always turn on at the scheduled time. It'll wait until ~20 minutes until the scheduled time to turn on, then freezes. When it freezes, I can't access the settings to adjust the dimness. Annoying because it defaults to the last setting before the wake up time. Since I gradually increase the dimness as I go to bed, this means it will jump to the dimmest setting when it does decide to turn on. It's just annoying enough to try other apps.
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Mugelbbub16
April 21, 2022
This is GREAT, I had a different night mode filter before, but because of the new update it wouldn't let me use the screen properly. However this app let's me go into other apps and swipe between screens- which is perfect, it's very convenient and easy to use, the widget in the pull down menu is so simple. If someone reading this was having the same problem I was with the new update, then I recommend this app or works so well and doesn't block use for other apps or moving between screens!
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A Google user
June 10, 2019
overall it's a great app and it does exactly as the description says, dims your screen lower than your device allows and filters out light. The only thing I find absolutely infuriating is that there is a bug that causes the app to stop working randomly. When you turn it on it will stay on for what seems to be a set period of time, and then it will start to randomly stop working until you turn it back on. It's the only reason I haven't recommended this app to my friends.
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What's new

• Now compatible with Android 12
• Sun timer bug fixed