[Over the long weekend the developer of iTorch contacted me encouraging me to try the latest, fourth, version of the iTorch app.](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itorch-pro-flashlight/id392550196?mt=8) The claim was that iTorch had been made to be the fastest gun, umm flashlight app, in the west.

[So of course I had to try it given all my past searching](http://brooksreview.net/2012/08/flashlight-iphone/).

What I found is that iTorch is incredibly fast. It really isn’t even a challenge (the free version is just as fast). And while I don’t like the icon, or UI, as much as I do in Lighty — the bottom line is that speed is far more relevant to me than design of a flashlight app.

To get an idea of how fast iTorch is, just launch your current flashlight app, quit, now relaunch. That relaunch speed — that’s just about how fast iTorch is.

I’ve added it to my home screen, replacing Lighty.