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Reading Flashlight
Read what’s lit. Let the rest wait.
A spotlight that follows your cursor and dims the rest of the screen.
About Reading Flashlight on Product Hunt
“Read what’s lit. Let the rest wait.”
Reading Flashlight was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #65 on the daily leaderboard. A spotlight that follows your cursor and dims the rest of the screen.
On the analytics side, Reading Flashlight competes within Productivity and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 677.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Reading Flashlight performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Reading Flashlight?
Reading Flashlight was hunted by Peter Onisha. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Reading Flashlight including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Every time I sat down to read a long article or technical doc or study on my Mac, my eyes would wander — even with Do Not Disturb on and social media closed.
I realized the culprit wasn’t notifications; it was visual clutter. Browser tabs, sidebars, the Dock, and the rest of the page were constantly pulling at my peripheral vision.
I built Reading Flashlight to replicate the feeling of reading a book under a desk lamp in a dark room. With one shortcut (⌃ ⌥ F), your cursor becomes a soft spotlight (Circle, Reading Bar, or Focus Box) while the rest of your screen dims and blurs into the background — completely click-through, across every macOS app.
No complicated productivity system, no setup. Just light on what you’re reading, and nothing else.