Comparison

Kids Night Light vs Simple Night Light

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Kids Night Light

This free utility app provides a customizable night light for children, perfect for travel or bedtime. Adjust brightness and color to create a soothing atmosphere, with user preferences saved for convenience. It's designed with privacy in mind, collecting no data and requiring no network connection.

Highlights
  • Adjustable brightness
  • Adjustable color
  • Screen stays on
  • User preferences saved
  • 100% free
  • No ads or data collection
Features
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A 100% free night light for kids. Perfect for traveling to hotels, camping, etc. Brightness is adjustable to save battery. * Adjustable brightness * Phone/tablet screen stays ON * Adjustable color * User preferences saved between app launches * 100% FREE (NO ADS) * No analytics, no data collected * No network connections made from the app * Made for my own kids

About

Simple Night Light

This app provides a gentle, customizable screen light for nighttime use. Choose from various warm colors and adjust brightness to create a calming ambiance without disturbing others. It offers quick access via widgets and optional low-level rear flashlight functionality.

Highlights
  • Customizable screen colors (amber, red, white, etc.)
  • Adjustable screen brightness (1%-50%)
  • Saves favorite settings
  • Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
  • iOS 18+ Control Center integration
  • Optional low-level rear flashlight
Features
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A softer light for the middle of the night. When your iPhone flashlight is more than you need, Night Light turns your screen into a calm, gentle light. Open the app and your saved color and brightness are ready. No account, setup, or clutter. MAKE IT YOURS Choose warm amber, warm white, deep red, candle, green, or moonlight. Pick any custom color and adjust the screen brightness from 1% to 50%. Night Light remembers your favorite settings for next time. Deep red and warm amber are gentle choices for checking on a sleeping child or finding your way without waking anyone. OPEN IT YOUR WAY Add the circular widget to your Lock Screen or Home Screen to open your saved light with one tap. On iOS 18 and later, you can also add Night Light to Control Center, a Lock Screen control, or the Action button on supported iPhones. Normal iPhone authentication may still be required. OPTIONAL REAR LIGHT Need a little more? One tap turns on the rear flashlight at a deliberately low level. It never turns on automatically, and it switches off when Night Light leaves the foreground. SIMPLE BY DESIGN Night Light opens directly into your favorite preset, uses a dark launch screen, and keeps controls minimal and easy to find. FREE AND PRIVATE Night Light is completely free, with no ads, accounts, subscriptions, analytics, or tracking. Your settings remain on your device. Optional tips unlock nothing—the full app is available to everyone.

Screenshots

Kids Night Light1 screens
Simple Night Light3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kids Night Light at none against Simple Night Light's 1. Kids Night Light also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Simple Night Light sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Kids Night Light asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Kids Night Light against 5.0 for Simple Night Light. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kids Night Light has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Kids Night Light versus Simple Night Light: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKids Night LightSimple Night Light
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEneko AlonsoSubstruct, LLC

Customer experience

Kids Night Light

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Simple Night Light

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Kids Night Light

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple Night Light

One-time1
  • Leave a Tip$2.99

Questions

Is Kids Night Light free?
Kids Night Light is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Night Light free?
Simple Night Light is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Kids Night Light or Simple Night Light?
Simple Night Light is rated higher. Kids Night Light averages 4.9 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Simple Night Light averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Kids Night Light or Simple Night Light have ads?
Neither Kids Night Light nor Simple Night Light shows ads.

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