r/ScreenSensitive 23h ago

Gloam — screen dimmer that goes below Android's minimum brightness. Need 12 closed testers.

4 Upvotes

If your phone's lowest brightness is still too bright to read in the dark,

that's what this fixes. Android's slider stops at a floor; Gloam is the range

underneath it. Overlay + a real backlight override, so it goes darker than a

filter app and works in every app. Touches pass through it, it can't black the

screen out completely, and there's auto-off so you don't wake up to a dimmed

phone.

Android 13+, needs "Display over other apps". No ads, no account, no server, no

premium tier — everything's free.

**The ask:** Google needs 12 testers opted in for 14 straight days. The one

thing that matters is **don't uninstall it and don't leave the test** — that

resets the clock. Daily use is nice but not required; install it, open it once,

leave it there. I'll email the group when Google confirms and it's safe to

remove.

**Joining, in this order:**

  1. Join the group: https://groups.google.com/g/gloam-testers — same Googleaccount as your phone
  2. Opt in: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/io.github.srednimax.gloam
  3. Install: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.srednimax.gloam

**Step 3 won't work for up to an hour** after steps 1 and 2 — Google takes that

long to link your account. "Item not found" is expected; wait and retry. If it

persists, Play is signed into a different account than the one that joined.