Shares of this market’s 817 negative reviews.
26.9% vs 10.2% typical store-wide.
Flashlight — My flashlight does not work anymore. Either the lights do weak you can’t see it or all I get are ads.
It is not a flashlight — I NEEDED A FLASHLIGHT FOR MY IPAD, THIS IS NOT A FLASHLIGHT FALS ADVERTISEMENT.
Flashlight — Way to many interrupting by stupid ads!!!
The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.
What Apple and Google complete after flashlight app, in their order.
Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “flashlight app for”, with the query stripped.
People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.
Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.
All 14 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-02.
Apps count as part of a market for 90 days after they last appear in it. Installs are Google Play's own count. None of these apps has an Android listing we could match yet.
Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.
| App | Price | Tiers | Money complaints |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flashlight Ⓞfree | free | 1.7% of 175 | |
| Flashlight for iPhone + iPad$0.99–$7.99 · 10 tiers | $0.99–$7.99 | 0% of 102 | |
| Best Flash Light - Flashlight$0.99–$1.99 · 2 tiers | $0.99–$1.99 | 0% of 63 | |
| Flashlight ⊜$4.99–$4.99 · 1 tiers | $4.99–$4.99 | 0% of 40 | |
| Flashlight ×$5.99–$19.99 · 3 tiers | $5.99–$19.99 | 0% of 114 | |
| MyLight – Flashlight & LED$1.99–$1.99 · 1 tiers | $1.99–$1.99 | 0% of 48 | |
| Flashlight ∎$4.99–$4.99 · 1 tiers | $4.99–$4.99 | 0% of 50 | |
| Flashlight ◯$7.99–$7.99 · 1 tiers | $7.99–$7.99 | 0% of 8 | |
| Flashlight •$0.99–$0.99 · 1 tiers | $0.99–$0.99 | 0% of 20 |
Owns. Largest captured sample; 133,271 ratings — real reach
Exposed. 67% negative; ads interrupt and kill the light mid-use
Owns. 30,637 ratings; no IAP so no paywall friction
Exposed. 60% negative; reliability failures, scam redirects reported
Owns. 43,789 ratings; relatively lower 25% negative
Exposed. Ads eventually degraded brightness and caused falls per receipts
Owns. Lite branding signals free-tier clarity
Exposed. 76% negative — highest anger; ads fire every 5 seconds over controls
Owns. 98,701 ratings; lowest negative rate at 7%
Exposed. Secondary-feature positioning (clock/night light) may explain tolerance — not a pure torch winner
Each rival’s exposed weakness, what not to build, and the call, argued from the same reviews counted above.
Read the Deep ReportEvery app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.
Open the app library14 apps compete on this shelf, holding 2,565 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, ads, runs in 14 of 14 of them at 26.9% of negative reviews against 10.2% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.
1. Ads: in 14 of 14 apps, 26.9% of negative reviews.
2,565 US App Store reviews across 14 apps, 817 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-02 snapshot, never estimated.
Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 12,743 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap.