Is Night Light safe?

Veilleuse turns your phone into a simple night light, with no ads and no trackers. Features: Two light sources: the camera flash, or the screen with an adjustable warm tint. Adjustable duration before automatic shutdown (1 to 120 minutes). Instant or progressive (fade) shutdown, with adjustable fade duration. Fully pure-black (OLED) interface, to save battery and avoid glare. While active, the sc…

Developer: pic38
Category: Flashlight
Earliest archived version: 09 Sept 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

17 Sept 2026

1.19.0

Live preview in Screen mode: while dragging the brightness slider, the screen shows the color and brightness exactly as it will look once the night light is running. New "Flash brightness" slider (on supported devices): same live preview — the flash turns on at the set level while you're adjusting…

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14 Sept 2026

1.18.1

Fix: the app icon wasn't showing up on F-Droid (a generic placeholder was displayed instead). The icon existed only as a vector adaptive icon (XML), with no raster PNG in the APK, which F-Droid's icon extraction can't process. Added raster PNG icons (same design) to the APK.

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09 Sept 2026

1.18.0

The app's name is now translated into each of the 26 supported languages, both on your phone and in the F-Droid listing (e.g. "Night Light" in English, "Nachtlicht" in German, "常夜灯" in Japanese) — "Veilleuse" stays as the name only in French.

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDio.github.pic38.veilleuse

Latest APK SHA-2569fcf1fba452297cb9db80d86ad151c4f87c6108a94c4547f606f80fca37b8c08

Signing certificate84:A4:DA:3D:B2:90:DB:13:C6:4C:F5:AB:2C:3B:64:9E:91:87:34:73:3E:1B:9F:63:2C:ED:E3:43:F3:F2:D8:5E

MIN ANDROID26TARGET34ARCHITECTURE

04 / History

Archive history

3 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.18.0 (09 Sept 2026), latest 1.19.0 (17 Sept 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 1.18.1 and 1.19.0.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

3 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.19.017 Sept 202626+→1.18.114 Sept 202626+→1.18.009 Sept 202626+→

06 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexNo ads or tracking flagged by the source

IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source

SourceOpen-source · fdroid

Permissions1 declared · 0 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessNo sensitive permissions

Declared permissions

io.github.pic38.veilleuse.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

07 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗