Nitecore EDC35 5000 Lumen EDC Flashlight, USB-C Rechargeable, High Power Super Bright Sticker for Everyday Carry

I've had this flashlight for about a year now, and despite owning many flashlights, this is the one I choose to use daily as a delivery driver. This light provides a good mix of features including compact size, quick access to functions and brightness levels, and very good battery life. Not to mention, it can put out a prodigious amount of light for its size. Initially I thought the UI would be annoying but I actually like it a lot. You have one button that you either half press or full press. Full press turns it on or off, half press cycles through brightness levels. Half press and hold activates the "search" mode, and full press and hold activates "Lumen Shield" aka turbo mode. It cycles brightness levels as fast as you can click the button, unlike other flashlights where you have to hold the button and wait for it to cycle, which I hate. No double clicks to activate either of the two turbo modes. The button has just the right amount of clickiness and resistance so you aren't going to accidentally full press when you meant to half press or vice versa. You've got four brightness levels plus the two turbo modes. The first three use the center LED and the last one lights up the tiny UHi LEDs around the center, brightening up the spill considerably. Search mode overdrives the center LED and turns this thing into a powerful spotlight with some incredible range. This is why I bought it and it's my favorite feature. Great for quickly lighting up address numbers or other distant objects at night. "Lumen Shield" lights up all the LEDs. You lose a bit of throw in exchange for 5000 lumens of light being dumped on your surroundings. I use this to quickly light up entire properties or dark areas. These modes are meant to be used momentarily, as they will heat up the light and drain the battery pretty fast. Now this isn't high CRI. The light has a noticeable green tint to it at lower levels. It works for my purposes though. As long as you are only using the turbo modes sparingly, the battery lasts a very long time. I think I've charged this light three times in the year that I've owned it, and I use it daily. It charges via a USB C port on the bottom of the light. A rotating cover protects this port while not in use. A quick half press of the button shows you the charge level using four small green LEDs. These also display constantly while the light is on. A removable battery would be nice though. The flashlight itself seems well built. It's heavier than it looks and feels good in the hand. It's very grippy. It certainly feels like it will be durable, but I haven't really beat it up that much yet. I do have another Nitecore light, a CU6, which I dropped onto concrete countless times and even accidentally ran it over with a car. That light held up fine so I'm hoping this one does as well. It's the size of the light though that really does it for me. It's small enough to carry in a pocket and yet it can blast out more light than something three times its size. I also like the styling a lot. It would be nice if we had the option to use the UHi LEDs in all modes so we could have an even flood beam. Also if they offered a high CRI version I would have gotten that instead. There is no strobe mode on this light but I've never used that feature anyway. Other functions include a manual lock out switch and a proximity sensor to keep it from setting things on fire if it accidentally gets turned on in a pocket. All in all, I am definitely happy with it. Very small, versatile, very quick to use, incredibly bright, and very long battery life. All of what you want in a flashlight of this type. Buy it.

For the average user, this light provides more feature/power than you'll most likely ever need. For the true aficianado, there will never be a perfect product. In my search for a true quality product, I read countless reviews in which I began to see parallels to the cellphone market; products have become so well-built that reviewers have to nitpick the hell out of every feature to find things they don't like... reviews on this light were very similar... so many reviewers opined that the product was 'so close to being perfect' if only for this or that smal annoyance. I decided to make the purchase and after several days, have to admit I am truly satisfied. The light is amazingly well-engineered. The fact that the charging port is covered adjacent to the lock feature shows care and aforethought in the design. The carry pouch is similarly well-built, rugged, and functional. A light this powerful and small does generate alot of heat on max power, so take care to hold the light at the rear when using this feature as things get toasty very quickly. For those complaining about the functionality of the main button/syncing the flash patterns/memory, there is a very-easy to understand manual included with the light which explains exactly how things function. We all like to be intuitive and figure things out on our own and when we run into issues trying to quickly figure things out, we issue complaints... the solution: read the manual and practice a bit. This is a $90 flashlight and not some cheap knockoff... it was designed with some thought that translates into certain complexities that in the end, you might appreciate. Very satisfied with this. My first night out on a 5 mile evening hike with it, one of my black earbuds fell out and rolled partway down an incline. I was able to find it in seconds with this thing due to the massive coverage its beam provides. EDIT ONE YEAR LATER : This light continues to serve me well... multiple use stories in the last year... no dropoff from the massive battery on board which many hard core users complained about and guarunteed me I would regret (not having the ability to change batteries). This has been a complete non issue the last year and thing has already paid for itself. Favorite Story: Was finishing a large CCTV install for Lolapalooza Chicago 2025 in Grant Park, July/August of this year. The last night before show my partner and I were troubleshooting several of the 60+cameras we installed late in the evening the night before Day1. It was raining steadily and hard... the two of us had split up looking for a long cat 5e Run from the street to a network box that was providing power & thruput to a camera on a pole out on Coluimbus Ave. My partner found the network box and realized the cable had not been terminated / plugged in but he was separated from me by out 100 feet and multiple security fences that had been installed to divide up VIP/GA areas... He was struggling with using his phone as a light while trying to terminate the cable while using a Wilscott Trailer as cover from the rain. I climbed up on a fence and got a visual on him and took out my EDC35 and called out that I was going to light things up for him. He yelled back "No that's OK!" just as I hit the 1200 lumen beam setting from about 100 feet. Instantly his work area was brilliantly lit up with plenty of light... He immediately yelled back "disregard-hold that-that's PERFECT" so I held it for a couple of minutes while finished up. When we reunited a few minutes later his comment was "Holy Cow I need me one of those"

This is hands down the best performance, cost, high runtime and multipurpose use flashlight money can buy. Now yes agreed with many other reviewers the light gets insanely hot on turbo. The heat efficiency could be better. But any light at 5000 lumens will get very hot this is to be expected. The turbo is designed for self defense and emergency use mainly. All other modes the light stays at a useable temperature while offering the ability to switch between flood light and spot light for different work or life scenarios. Another thing I seen reviews complain about is the tail cap and using it, it takes some adjusting but once you learn how to operate the light it's extremely simple. The amazing runtimes are tought to beat due to a high capacity 6000mah battery. It's compact and extremely well made. I don't know of anything else on the market right now that is similar to this in the sense of the ability to have mixed beans when needed with such high runtimes and brightness. I use it daily for work and couldn't be happier. Once you understand the design you will realize this light is the best money can buy! Highly recommend.

The EDC35 is really a good EDC with a lot of great features. Getting to the levels you want with the tail switch can be a little tricky at first but once you get used to the feel it works pretty well. At its normal sustained high mode of 1300 lumens it’s very bright for its size and runtimes are very good. The temporary Search and Lumen Shield modes are insanely bright and have incredible throw for such a small light. Things get hot fast so you don’t want to engage these modes too often but the normal High mode is plenty bright with decent throw. There are a few misses that could be improved in a future version. The battery is not replaceable so you have to keep it charged via the USB-C port or have another light ready to go while the EDC35 is charging. It also would have been very nice to have a switch or mode that enabled the use of the floodlight mode (all 9 emitters on) at lower selectable levels so that you could use the floodlight pattern for more than a short 12-15 seconds at the 5,000 Lumen Shield level before it drops down to a lower output — without the 8 flood emitters remaining on— to protect the light. That would have been a really useful feature. My biggest gripe with the light is the tail stand ability. I always like to get lights that can tail stand and this light is advertised as being able to tail stand. It is very unstable when doing so because the tail switch extends just a bit too far past the metal bezel. All that was needed was to have the three high points be just 1 millimeter taller at most so that the rubber tail switch could not touch first causing it to be very wobbly. A 5 yr. old could figure this out so how is it that all the other details of the light are executed so well but this got by the design phase, prototypes, pre-production, and on to full production without anyone noticing? It HAD to be caught at some point so for whatever reason Nitecore decided it wasn’t worth the easy fix so I’ll wind up having to improvise something that is permanent and stable. If the tail stand ability is not an issue for you, then there aren’t any real deal breakers and I would recommend it overall.

I'm a fan of Nitecore's flashlights. This one is nearly perfect. It is much more simpler to learn and remember the controls on this one than their other lights. But you have to practice otherwise you may think the controls are bad, or think the light is faulty, like I did at first. There are only 4 simple actions: half click, half press & hold, full click, full press & hold. Get this down and you can easily control everything it does, intuitively. And it has everything it needs and should have, including an easy lockout switch, battery level indicator, hidden USB-C, waterproof, stands up and very bright to very low settings, all in a compact size. The clip seems to get in the way a bit...I think it's removable, but not easily. And I have no use for the lanyard or belt case. They could keep those and reduce the price. A bought a second one

This thing is bright. It is a little big for EDC however I knew that going in. It does take some practice understanding the button and brightness settings. Love that it's rechargeable.

I bought this flashlight two months ago. I fully charged it before work, and yesterday I realized that it would not turn on. The flashlight also would not charge. Now I have a 90 dollar paperweight. I reached out to the company to see about repairs or a replacement. Amazon will not replace anything if it has been longer than a month.

This is a nice flashlight that is bright and has plenty of battery life. I like the design, and it is easy to use, but I wish it had a strobe feature.