Glowbar - Pixel Glow

Glowbar puts a vivid animated color bar on any edge of your screen, glowing beautifully across every app you use. A subtle yet satisfying visual layer for your Android — colorful, quiet, always there. HOW IT WORKS Turn the bar on from the Glowbar app and it stays visible as you move between apps. A notification gives you quick controls: "Hide" tucks the bar away and brings it back with one tap, "Turn off" stops it entirely. Settings save automatically. COLORS • Palettes — from the classic multicolor look to sunset, ocean, ember, forest, neon and monochrome • Custom colors — mix your own with a color picker or hex entry, blended into your own gradient ANIMATION MODES • Flow — colors travel across the bar in a loop • Pulse — fades in and out in a soft rhythm • Breathe — slowly scales its thickness up and down • Comet — a bright head trailing a fading tail • Wave — the thickness ripples along its length • Scanner — a bright window sweeps end to end • Heartbeat — a double beat, like a pulse • Aurora — soft blobs of color drift and blend • Sparkle — glints twinkle across the bar • Marquee — dashes march along it • None — static gradient, no movement CUSTOMIZE YOUR GLOW • Position — any edge: top, bottom, left, or right, with fine offset control • Thickness and width — from slim to bold, narrow to wide • Animation speed — Slow, Medium, or Fast • Battery indicator — the fill drains from one end as your battery does, and the glow shifts as it charges or runs low • Foldable-friendly — each screen remembers its own size and position, so the glow comes up right folded or open REACTS TO YOUR NOTIFICATIONS • Notification glow — the bar flashes a bright burst of light when a notification arrives, like a hardware LED • Notification progress — the bar becomes a live progress gauge while an app shows download, upload, or other progress, then returns to normal • Show only on new notifications — the glow stays hidden and appears only while notifications are unread GLOWRING Prefer something subtler? Switch the shape to Glowring and the glow leaves the screen edge to hug your phone's front camera punch-hole. It auto-detects the camera's position and shape (circle or pill), with manual size, stroke, and position controls, remembered separately for each rotation. The same palettes, animation modes, speeds, battery indicator, and notification features work on the ring. SMART BEHAVIOR • Autostart on reboot — if the bar was on when your phone shut down, it comes back after a restart • Autohide on fullscreen — the glow steps aside for videos and games, and returns when you leave fullscreen FREE vs PREMIUM Free includes: • Animated glow bar — Flow or static, at Medium speed • Default and Sunset color palettes • Top and right positions • Adjustable width • Toggle on/off or hide, from the app or notification • Settings saved automatically, with a one-tap reset Premium (one-time purchase) unlocks: • Glowring — the glow wraps your front camera instead of the screen edge • Every color palette, plus custom colors of your own • More animation modes and speeds • Battery indicator mode • Notification glow, notification progress, and show-only-on-new-notifications • Autostart on reboot, autohide on fullscreen • Bottom and left positions, precise offsets, thickness PERMISSIONS Glowbar keeps permissions to a minimum: • Display over other apps — required to show the bar on top of your apps. Explained in-app with a button to grant it. • Notifications — lets you hide or turn off the bar from the notification shade. • Run at startup — used only by Autostart on reboot. Nothing runs at boot unless you turn it on. • Notification access (optional) — used only by the notification features to react to events. Glowbar never reads, stores, or shares notification content, and the listener is idle while those features are off. No hidden permissions, no account required. Light up your screen, your way.