No menu to dig for, no toggle to remember. Lean the phone away from the person next to you and the veil is already there.
Android · 12 languages · everything on-device · no account, nothing to buy
A privacy filter you stick on the glass is always on — it dims your screen at home, on the sofa, alone. Tilt Veil does the same job in software and only when the situation calls for it: the moment you tilt the phone away, the veil drops.
Tilt the phone past your threshold and a full-screen veil drops instantly. Straighten up and it clears just as fast. Nothing to tap.
Set the threshold where it suits you — 5 levels, from a firm 25° lean down to a 9° nudge, 17° by default. Pick which way counts: left, right, both sides, forward, back, or front-and-back. Then hold the phone the way you actually hold it and calibrate to your own grip in three seconds.
● Live preview shows the darkness before you switch it on
Prefer a cover you control by hand? Pattern mode puts Bayer, Noise, Dither or Gradient over the screen, with darkness and opacity you tune to taste.
A small bubble floats on top of everything. Tap it to toggle the pattern, drag it to tuck it against whichever edge is out of your way.
● Independent of Tilt mode — run either, or both
By default the veil covers everything. Open the picker, search your installed apps, and choose exactly which ones deserve it.
This needs Usage Access, and Tilt Veil uses it for one thing: reading which app is in front, on your device, and nothing else. Don't grant it and the app says so on screen — it falls back to covering every app instead of quietly pretending your selection worked.
● Never reads screen content, never keeps a history
A foreground service keeps the veil alive once you switch away, which is the whole point: it has to cover whatever you're doing next.
So there's a persistent notification with Pause and Resume right on it. You always know when protection is on, and standing it down is one tap — never a guess.
● No hidden background state
One button on the main screen. Android asks for "Display over other apps" the first time — that's what lets the veil draw over whatever you're reading.
Drag the sensitivity slider and pick a trigger direction. The preview tile shows how dark the screen will actually go, before you commit.
Go use your phone. When someone settles in beside you and you angle the screen away, the veil is already down.
No sign-in, no subscription, no paywall, no ads. Every feature is unlocked the first time you open it.
Your tilt angle, your calibration, your chosen apps, your settings — stored locally. Nothing about what you look at is uploaded anywhere.
Tilt Veil covers your screen from people looking at it in the room. It does not block screenshots or screen recording, and it is not encryption. It is a physical-privacy screen for real-world glances.
The trigger is a gesture people already make instinctively when they want to hide a screen. That is the whole design — no menu to reach for at the wrong moment.
Reading messages on a packed train or bus, with a stranger's shoulder against yours.
A colleague walks past your desk while a salary sheet or a private thread is open.
Anywhere the seat next to you is close enough that a glance is effortless.
No. Tilt Veil dims and covers the screen against people looking at it in person. It does not use FLAG_SECURE and makes no attempt to block capture — if you need that, this is the wrong tool.
The veil is drawn as a system overlay on top of whatever app you're in. Without that permission there is nowhere to draw it, so protection cannot turn on at all.
Only if you choose to protect specific apps rather than all of them. It reads the package name of the app currently in front so it knows whether to show the veil, processes it on-device, and discards it. It never reads screen content and never keeps a history. Skip the permission and protection simply applies everywhere — the app tells you so instead of silently ignoring your choice.
Android requires a visible notification for any service that keeps running in the background. That's a feature here: it carries Pause and Resume, so the app can never be protecting — or not protecting — without you knowing.
It listens to the rotation sensor and draws a single overlay window. There is no network activity, no location, no camera, and no polling loop.
Yes. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscription, no account. Every feature is available from the first launch.
Free, on-device, no account. Tilt to dim, or lay a pattern over the screen and flick it with one thumb.