Twilight 14.32

Twilight lays a warm, dimmed filter over your Android screen in the evening, so late-night scrolling feels less like staring into a desk lamp.

It follows your local sunset and sunrise, fading in and out gradually instead of snapping on at a fixed hour.

The app is free with no ads, and an optional Pro unlock adds extra profiles and finer timing controls.

What Twilight Actually Does

Phone screens give off a lot of blue light, the part of the spectrum that tells your brain it is still daytime. In the evening, that light can hold back melatonin, the hormone that makes you sleepy.

Twilight cuts the blue by tinting the screen a warm red-orange, and it can dim the display further than Android's lowest brightness setting. The filter sits on top of every app, so it stays on whether you are reading, browsing or watching something in VLC for Android or Kodi for Android.

A fair warning: research on whether screen filters improve sleep is mixed. Lower brightness and putting the phone down earlier still matter more than any filter - Twilight just makes that last half hour gentler on the eyes.

Twilight vs Your Phone's Built-in Night Mode

Most phones from the last few years already have a basic warm filter, called Night Light on Pixel phones and Eye comfort shield on Samsung. Here is what Twilight adds on top:

If your built-in mode already feels right, keep it - running two filters at once only muddies the colours. Twilight earns its place when you want a deeper red, extra dimming or timing that follows the sun.

Setting It Up in a Couple of Minutes

• Install and open Twilight, then allow "Display over other apps" - that is how the filter sits on top of everything.
• Allow location if you want sunset timing, or set your own start and end times instead. Location is optional.
• Start with colour temperature and intensity around the middle, then go warmer over a few evenings. The developer suggests an intensity above 60% if blue light reduction is the goal.
• Add the apps where colour matters to the pause list - photo and video editors such as Hypic or CapCut for Android, so your edits are not judged through an orange tint.
• Switch to the Bed time profile for your last hour, which filters and dims harder.

Free vs Pro - What the Unlock Adds

Everything above works in the free app, and there are no ads. Twilight Pro is a separate paid unlock on the Play Store that adds:

• More profiles than the two built-in ones.
• An adjustable transition time, so the fade at sunset can be slower or faster.
• An option to switch the Twilight service off completely outside filter hours.
• Early access to new features, which often appear in Pro first.

Install the unlock alongside the free app rather than instead of it. It only switches features on, so do not uninstall Twilight first.

Privacy and Permissions

Twilight needs permission to draw over other apps, which is how every screen filter works. Location is only used to work out your sunset times, and custom times avoid it entirely.

On its Play Store listing, the developer declares that the app collects no data and shares none with third parties.

One side effect of any overlay is that, on some phones, a permission dialog or install button may not respond while the filter is on. Pause Twilight from its notification, tap the button, then turn it back on.

Installing the XAPK From This Page

The file offered here is an XAPK - the app packed as a bundle of parts - not a single APK. Tapping it in a file manager will not install it, so open it with an XAPK installer such as SAI (Split APKs Installer) instead.

Want to see what is inside before you install? Our APK and XAPK Analyzer shows the permissions, Android version and CPU support right in your browser, with nothing uploaded.

To find out whether an app needs Google Play services to run, use Play Store Check.

Who Should Look Elsewhere

If you mostly read before bed, a reading app with a proper night theme can help more than a filter. Our guide on how to transform your tablet into an ebook reader covers the best ones.

If the problem is one video app that is simply too bright, the player can often fix it on its own. mpv for Android and VLC both let you swipe brightness down inside the video without touching the rest of the phone.

The quick tell: if you have never pushed your phone's own night mode past halfway, you do not need Twilight yet. Try that first, and come back when it stops being warm enough.

Quick questions

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Download Twilight 14.32 and try it tonight, or tell us how you got on if you have used it before.