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Flashlight app.

Ads runs in 12 of the 12 apps here — nobody on this shelf has fixed it.

12 apps · 2,313 reviews held · 735 negative · 2026-08-24 snapshot

73/100 opportunity

6 of 6 factors · not advice
Nobody's fixed it12 of 12 apps100
How far above typical28.3% vs 10.7% typical65
How angrystar2.0 · 208 reviews68
People in the market439,283 ratings55
Room to enterleader holds 31% of ratings69
Willingness to pay7 of 12 charge · $4.99 entry58

Mostly solved: billing. 9 of 9 apps run below the store’s typical rate on it — while 12 of 12 still carry ads complaints.

How this is scored

Weighted mean of the sub-scores, weights re-normalized over whatever is computable (nobody's fixed it 25 · how far above typical 20 · how angry 15 · people in the market 15 · room to enter 15 · willingness to pay 10). Fixed anchors map each count to 0–100: breadth and willingness-to-pay are straight shares; the gap’s heat tops out at 4times the store’s typical rate; anger scores star3 as 0 and star1.5 as 100; reach runs 104 to 107ratings on a log scale; room to enter is one minus the leader’s share of shelf ratings. A factor that cannot be counted is dropped and named — never imputed. The site’s one composite (#115, owner decision 2026-08-15); cited industry benchmarks are never blended in.

4 gaps.

01

Ads — unfixed in 12 of 12 apps

high · 28.3% of this shelf’s 735 negative reviews, against 10.7% typical store-wide, at 1.98star average anger.

What they said · 208 reviews
“Flashlight — My flashlight does not work anymore. Either the lights do weak you can’t see it or all I get are ads.”Flashlight for iPhone + iPad · 1star · Aug 11, 2026
“Flashlight — Way to many interrupting by stupid ads!!!”Flashlight for iPhone + iPad · 1star · Jul 7, 2026
“Why Ads — I don’t like Ads blocking my light”Flashlight ⊜ · 1star · Jun 18, 2026
How it compares
this shelf
28.3%
208 of 735
store-wide
10.7%
typical
breadth
100%
12 of 12 apps
02

Accuracy — unfixed in 12 of 12 apps

12.0% of this shelf’s 735 negative reviews, against 11.5% typical store-wide, at 1.85star average anger.

What they said · 88 reviews
“Diane — Doesn’t work”Flashlight ⊜ · 1star · Jul 16, 2026
“Not happy — Why should I need to show my face or have a passcode just use flashlight that doesn’t make me happy I don’t know When it happened, but I don’t like it because most of the time it doesn’t work! I like the old way where you just clicked it and it worked. Thank you.”Flashlight ○ · 3star · Jul 15, 2026
“Useless — Hitting the “on” icon leads to an ad that never ends (literally).”Flashlight Ⓞ · 1star · May 8, 2026
How it compares
this shelf
12.0%
88 of 735
store-wide
11.5%
typical
breadth
100%
12 of 12 apps
03

Performance — unfixed in 10 of 12 apps

6.0% of this shelf’s 735 negative reviews, against 16.9% typical store-wide, at 2.44star average anger.

What they said · 44 reviews
“Dangerous and scary — I was stuck on a dark road trying to air my tire and an ad came on and shut off my light!! It was 3 to 4 minutes in terror waiting for ad to end . Bad app! Screw you!”Flashlight for iPhone + iPad · 1star · Feb 13, 2026
“Uhm — Idk if this is just my iPad but when I download and deleted this app my iPad froze and the icons stopped working for some reason I couldn’t open the apps .”Flashlight Ⓞ · 2star · Nov 2, 2025
“SO BAD!!!🤮🤮🤮🤮 — It wouldn’t even let me do anything terrible game also why would you make a 12 year old pay for this like oh my goodness somebody has to fix the bugs and everything I rate this game a 1 star because my kid was crying because first he had to pay and then he payed and it didn’t work somebody get this game deleted and I want my money back somebody tell me how to get my money back beca”Flashlight for iPhone + iPad · 1star · May 8, 2025
How it compares
this shelf
6.0%
44 of 735
store-wide
16.9%
typical
breadth
83%
10 of 12 apps
04

Billing — unfixed in 11 of 12 apps

6.4% of this shelf’s 735 negative reviews, against 32.1% typical store-wide, at 2.08star average anger.

What they said · 47 reviews
  • Price judged too high for the value3 of 47
“Flashlight does not work due to unwanted ad disruption. — This app came with my iPhone and is full of ads. Now you want to charge me to remove ads I never want to see. Fix this problem please.”Flashlight × · 1star · May 25, 2026
“Phishing attempted with download — As soon as I downloaded this app, I received a pop-up asking if I’d had a $350 transaction on my ApplePay account (I had not). It related that this looked like suspicious activity, and that I should call the phone number they provided to further investigate. I immediately took a screen shot, deleted the app and called Apple support. They told me that this was ind”Flashlight ⊜ · 1star · Mar 19, 2026
“Garbage ads everywhere — Nonfunctional just charge me”Flashlight.® · 1star · Feb 27, 2026
How it compares
this shelf
6.4%
47 of 735
store-wide
32.1%
typical
breadth
92%
11 of 12 apps

Is there a market for a new flashlight app?

12 apps compete on this shelf, holding 2,313 App Store reviews — and the widest unfixed complaint, ads, runs in 12 of 12 of them at 28.3% of negative reviews against 10.7% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict — the page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in flashlight app?

1. Ads — in 12 of 12 apps, 28.3% of negative reviews; 2. Accuracy — in 12 of 12 apps, 12% of negative reviews; 3. Performance — in 10 of 12 apps, 6% of negative reviews; 4. Billing — in 11 of 12 apps, 6.4% of negative reviews.

How many flashlight app reviews did App Imp count?

2,313 US App Store reviews across 12 apps, 735 of them negative — counted on the 2026-08-24 snapshot, never estimated.

Searched on the App Store.

Apple’s own suggestions for flashlight app terms, in their order.

brightest flashlight app for iphoneflashlight app for freeflashlight for iphone + ipadfree flashlight for iphoneflashlightflashlight for iphoneflashlight ○flashlight projector

Searched, but no app on this shelf says it in its name.

Who’s in it

All 12 apps counted on this shelf · 2026-08-24.

App
Flashlight for iPhone + iPad134,03148%3%3%8%
Flashlight - Night Light Clock98,76931%13%—6%
Best Flash Light - Flashlight46,23432%13%5%5%
Flashlight ⊜44,11030%15%3%5%
Flashlight ×31,35644%13%4%13%
Flashlight Ⓞ30,70013%13%12%6%
Flashlight ○28,69316%19%6%3%
Flashlight ∎10,21014%22%2%2%
Flashlight ◯5,86313%25%13%—
Flashlight •4,71515%5%5%10%
Flashlight ¤4,13734%9%7%2%
Flashlight.®4655%11%—5%

Each cell: that app’s share of its own negative reviews. Bold from 1.15 times the store’s typical rate for that complaint, and only where an app holds 20+ negative reviews. Click a column to sort.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
Flashlight for iPhone + iPad$0.99–$7.99 · 10 tiers0% of 102
Best Flash Light - Flashlight$0.99–$1.99 · 2 tiers0% of 63
Flashlight ⊜$4.99–$4.99 · 1 tiers0% of 40
Flashlight ×$5.99–$19.99 · 3 tiers0% of 114
Flashlight ∎$4.99–$4.99 · 1 tiers0% of 50
Flashlight ◯$7.99–$7.99 · 1 tiers0% of 8
Flashlight •$0.99–$0.99 · 1 tiers0% of 20

What each one owns, where each is exposed

Flashlight for iPhone + iPad

Owns. Largest captured sample; 133,271 ratings — real reach

Exposed. 67% negative; ads interrupt and kill the light mid-use

Flashlight Ⓞ

Owns. 30,637 ratings; no IAP so no paywall friction

Exposed. 60% negative; reliability failures, scam redirects reported

Flashlight ⊜

Owns. 43,789 ratings; relatively lower 25% negative

Exposed. Ads eventually degraded brightness and caused falls per receipts

Flashlight™ (Lite)

Owns. Lite branding signals free-tier clarity

Exposed. 76% negative — highest anger; ads fire every 5 seconds over controls

Flashlight - Night Light Clock

Owns. 98,701 ratings; lowest negative rate at 7%

Exposed. Secondary-feature positioning (clock/night light) may explain tolerance — not a pure torch winner

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How this is counted

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 shelf rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 12,122 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the shelf carries it and at least 20 reviews are behind it — a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug.