Online Flashlight
Turn on your phone's flash light right from the browser, or light up the whole screen in any color. Steady, blink and SOS modes, with a compass and your battery level. Free, no app to install.
Turn on your phone's flash light right from the browser, or light up the whole screen in any color. Steady, blink and SOS modes, with a compass and your battery level. Free, no app to install.
The flash light uses the LED next to the back camera. The camera picture is never shown, recorded or uploaded.
This online flashlight gives you light in one tap, without installing a flashlight app. Press Turn on the flashlight and the big power button does the rest: on an Android phone it switches on the flash light, the bright LED next to the back camera, and on any other device it turns the screen itself into a lamp. Use it to find the keyhole, look under the sofa, read a menu in a dark restaurant or walk down an unlit staircase. Press the power button again, or the space bar on a computer, to turn the light off.
Flash light uses the camera LED, the same light your phone's own torch uses. A web page can only reach it through the camera, so the browser asks for camera access once. The camera picture is never shown on the page. This works in Chrome and other Chromium browsers on Android. iPhones, iPads and computers do not let a website switch the flash on, and the page tells you so instead of failing silently.
Screen light works everywhere. The whole screen fills with white, or with any color you pick under Screen light color: warm yellow is easier on the eyes at night, and red keeps your night vision when you look at a star map. Turn the screen brightness up for more light. Tap anywhere to turn it off. It also makes a handy soft fill light for a video call or a selfie.
Under Mode you choose how the light behaves. Steady simply stays on. Blink flashes about twice a second, which makes you easy to spot on a dark road or helps a friend find you in a crowd. SOS sends the international distress signal in Morse code, three short, three long, three short, and repeats it until you turn it off. All three modes work with both the flash light and the screen light, and the page keeps your phone awake while the light is on so it does not go dark after half a minute.
On phones with a direction sensor a small compass appears under the power button: the red tip points north and the number shows where the top of your phone is heading, for example 128° SE. On an iPhone tap Show compass first. The battery level sits in the corner, because a flashlight is often the last thing a nearly empty phone has to do. Both only appear where the browser provides them.
A flashlight that asks for the camera deserves an explanation: the flash LED belongs to the camera, and browsers offer no other way to reach it. The video never appears on the page, nothing is recorded, and nothing leaves your device. The camera is released the moment the light goes off, so the camera indicator on your phone goes out with it. The screen light needs no permission at all.
Open this page, press Turn on the flashlight and allow camera access when Chrome on Android asks. The flash light next to the back camera comes on. Press the round power button to turn it off again. On an iPhone choose Screen light, or use the flashlight button in the Control Center.
The flash LED is part of the camera, and the camera is the only door a browser has to it. The page opens the camera only to switch the light on, never shows or records the picture, and closes the camera when you turn the light off.
Safari and every other iPhone and iPad browser do not allow websites to control the flash. The screen light works on those devices, and at full screen brightness it is bright enough to light a small room.
Yes. Choose Screen light and press the power button: the whole screen turns white, or any color you pick. It works as a quick lamp and as a soft light for video calls.
It flashes the Morse distress signal, three short flashes, three long, three short, then pauses and repeats until you turn it off. It works with the flash light and with the screen light.
The flash LED and a bright white screen both use power, about as much as the flashlight built into your phone. The battery level is shown on the page so you can keep an eye on it.