EdgeMask - Edge Lighting & AOD

A message comes in. It drops in as liquid glass that bends the screen behind it, or grows out of the camera hole as a Dynamic Island, and your favorite photos burst across the screen. EdgeMask turns the plain system pop-up into a moment you actually want to see — on any Android phone.

NEW · Liquid Glass style

The notification drops in from the top as a sheet of glass and settles below the status bar. The screen behind it really bends at the edges, with soft frost, color fringes and a sweep of light, while the icon, title and message glide in one after another. Refraction and frost are adjustable (refraction: Android 11+ with Accessibility).

Dynamic Island on any Android

The pop-up expands out of the camera hole into an island with the sender's photo, the app icon and the message, then folds back in. Two island styles, fitted to your phone.

Particle effect

Every notification can shower the screen with your own photos and stickers.

• 12 motions: Snow, Rain, Bubbles, Float up, Popcorn, Fireworks, Confetti, Burst, Twinkle, Zoom, Cloud and Edge flow

• Add up to 10 photos or stickers and crop each one exactly the way you like

• Rounded, circle or original shape, plus amount, interval, size and speed

12 pop-up styles

Liquid Glass style · Dynamic Island style · Dynamic Island style 2 · Apple message style · Apple message style (iOS 15) · Samsung message style · Card style · Big icon style · Bookmark style · Ripple style · Ripple style 2 · Super slim

Lighting in your app's colors

Edge lighting, Edge lighting wave and Punch hole lighting glow in the color of the app that sent the notification, a color you pick, two mixed colors or a full rainbow. Hello lighting greets you with a sweep of light every time the screen turns on.

A different style for every app (Pro)

A bold Dynamic Island for family, fireworks for your best friend, a quiet slim bar for work chat — or nothing at all for the apps you'd rather ignore.

Always-on display (AOD), lock screen and rounded corners

Your style, even with the screen off: 26 clocks and 19 full-screen layouts with photo backgrounds and stickers. Show pop-ups on the lock screen, wake the screen when a notification arrives, or hide the content until you unlock. The rounded corners mask gives any screen smooth flagship-style corners.

Read aloud & reading aids — uses the Accessibility API

EdgeMask uses the Android Accessibility API only to read incoming notifications aloud (TTS), to detect when the screen turns on or off so effects appear on time, and to help people with low vision, dyslexia or color vision deficiency: only when you press the on-screen reading button, it takes one image of the screen, finds the text on the device to show it in large print and read it aloud, or names the color you touch. With the Liquid Glass style on, it also takes images of the screen while a notification is shown (up to 3 per second, only when the screen changes) and checks where the windows behind the glass are, to bend what's behind it in real time. No text is read. Everything stays on the device and is never stored or sent. These features are off until you turn them on.

Private by design

Notifications never leave your phone. The latest message is kept on the device only and deleted afterwards. No account, no sign-in.

Setup

EdgeMask needs three permissions to draw its pop-ups and react to notifications: Apps that can appear on top, Notification access and Notifications. The home screen walks you through each one. To avoid seeing two pop-ups at once, follow the built-in guide to turn off the system heads-up for the apps you style:

https://github.com/ikmuwn/EdgeMaskBlog/raw/main/blocking%20system%20heads-up%20options%20guide.png

EdgeMask is free and supported by ads. A Pro subscription (monthly or yearly) removes all ads and unlocks app-specific settings.

Ideas for new styles are always welcome: im@uno.kim