ScrollGuard Block Shorts/Reels

BreakTheScroll

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About this app

ScrollGuard – Block Reels, Shorts & Stop Scrolling 🚫
ScrollGuard is a productivity app designed to help you stop wasting time on addictive short-form videos and endless feeds. Whether it’s Reels, Shorts, or doom-scrolling, ScrollGuard helps you regain your focus, reduce screen time, and improve your digital wellbeing so you can spend more time on what truly matters.

Why ScrollGuard? 🤔
Short-form videos, Reels, Shorts, and infinite feeds are designed to keep you hooked, leading to increased screen time, distractions, and lost productivity. Most app blockers cut you off from entire apps, making it hard to stay connected while avoiding the real problem: doom-scrolling. ScrollGuard takes a smarter approach: it lets you reduce screen time and use social media in a mindful, balanced way by disabling only the addictive content, not the entire app.

Key Features 🌟
- Disable Reels & Shorts Without Blocking the App: Instantly block Shorts and Reels on popular platforms, while keeping messaging and other core features available.
- Anti-Scroll Mode: If you scroll for too long, a customizable popup prompts you to pause for a minute or quit instantly. All settings are fully customizable per app.
- Strict Mode with Accountability: Protect your settings with a password. Share the password with an accountability partner to help you stay committed to your time management goals.
- Custom Break Messages: Personalize the popup with your own motivational reminders for extra encouragement.
- Pause, With Limits: Easily pause protection for planned exceptions, with safeguards to prevent endless pausing.
- Usage Statistics: You can only improve what you can measure. Track your daily screen time within ScrollGuard to help you reduce screen time and set better goals.
How ScrollGuard Improves Digital Wellbeing 📉
- Stop Doom-Scrolling: Block addictive content like Reels, Shorts, and infinite feeds so you spend less time trapped in mindless scrolling.
- Reduce Screen Time: Effectively cut down on unnecessary screen time by eliminating the most distracting social media features.
- Build Self-Control: The anti-scroll popup interrupts unconscious habits, giving you space to choose whether to keep scrolling or take a healthy break.
- Boost Productivity: With fewer distractions, save hours every day for study, work, hobbies, or family.
- Support Accountability: Lock settings to involve a friend or partner, making it easier to stay on track and achieve your digital wellbeing goals.

Perfect For 💪
- Anyone who wants to reduce screen time and improve their digital wellbeing
- Students and professionals seeking better focus and time management
- Parents helping teens cut down on social media addiction
- Anyone who wants to enjoy social media for its social aspect while avoiding the infinite scroll

ScrollGuard uses Accessibility service:
- To identify doomscrolling activity, we use the Accessibility Service to detect swipe gestures
- To identify and block short videos
Your data remains private and is never extracted from your device.

Ratings and reviews

I like this app in concept, but I feel like it's not implemented as well at it could be. For example, why is tiktok not added in with the rest of the automatically blocked apps? It wouldn't be a problem if the modes were more lenient. "Chill" mode gives you 10 minutes max. I would love if I could include tiktok in the "pause" section so I could scroll for 30 minutes or something and then it could kick me off.

This is a great app! I was skeptical that something free would be riddled with ads. It is not! I only wish I could set individual timers for each app. Say 5 minutes before the pop-up for Facebook, 2 for Reddit, 10 for X, etc... I have them set on "chill" mode, and it gives me enough time to get my little fix and then remind myself that I should probably hop off before I waste an hour. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking a step in solving this crisis plaguing our society.

Great idea, doesn't seem to work for Facebook. Edit, worked sometimes for Facebook when I posted this. Let's check out the update! Big props to the dev(s). My only other feedback is that it could be useful to have it apply to all scroll apps at once, otherwise I can just bounce between two /three.

What’s new

Fixed: Permission issues on some devices
AntiScroll Mode: PopUp now appears as soon as you open the app.