BuzzKill Notification Manager

Sam Ruston

About this app

TIMES MAGAZINE - BEST INVENTIONS 2025
ANDROID AUTHORITY - "This is the notification manager Google should’ve built for Android years ago"
LIFEHACKER - "BuzzKill Is the Best Way to Manage Your Android Notifications"

BuzzKill allows you to see the notifications you need to see when you need to see them and filter out everything else you don't. Here is just a taste of what BuzzKill can do:

• Cooldown - Don't get buzzed multiple times when someone messages you multiple times in quick succession
• Custom alert - Set a custom sound or vibration pattern for a specific contact or phrase
• Dismiss - Automatically swipe away any notification you don't want to see, without hiding all notifications for that app
• Reply - Automatically reply to a message if you haven't seen it after a while
• Remind me - Keep reminding you until you see a notification
• Undo - Gives you a second chance to tap on a notification when you accidentally swipe it away
• Snooze - Receive your notifications in batches so they fit your schedule
• Alarm - Get your attention such as for a security camera notification
• Secret - Hide the content of the notification
• And many more...

FAQ: https://buzzkill.super.site/
BuzzKill is privacy first. There are no ads, no trackers and no data ever leaves your device. Unlike pretty much every app on your phone and the Play Store it doesn't have access to the internet (you can check) so you can be sure that your data is safe.

Looking for a free trial?
BuzzKill cannot connect to the internet to verify purchases, so it does not offer a free trial in the app. However if you're not happy with your purchase, please press the contact support button in the app and I'll refund your order if you're outside of Google Play's returns period.

Wear OS
BuzzKill has a companion app for Wear OS that allows you to trigger certain actions on the watch based on the rules that the phone triggers. For example you can create a rule in BuzzKill to trigger an alarm when you receive a certain notification. With the BuzzKill companion app, you can have the alarm show up on your watch too.

Accessibility Service API
BuzzKill includes an optional accessibility service that allows it automate certain actions on your device. For example you set BuzzKill to automatically tap a button in a notification. No data is collected and no data leaves the device. You do not need to enable the accessibility service unless you create a rule that uses it.

Does BuzzKill work with phone calls?
Unfortunately phone calls work very differently to notifications and they have limited support in BuzzKill. E.g. you can't set a custom vibration or sound for a phone call, but you can use the unsilence rule to temporarily allow a phone call to unsilence your rule based on the time/location/phone number that is calling.

Ratings and reviews

This is my all time fav app for managing the notifications, But there are some issues as a Xiaomi phone user.(I provided full permission and removed it from battery optimisation provided the proper permissions so that It can run in background. 1) in Xiaomi device if the app notification is locked it's not able to identify the rule. 2) If I am using "reply" rule with immediate then it's sending the msg first time and after that getting crashed and with "after" rule it's not sending at all

Hi Sam It worked fine for over a year. But from the last few weeks, it keeps stop working and has no history for notifications in that period. I have to "force close" the app and start again to make it work again every 3-4 days. I have made sure that app is added in exception list of things like "don't make this app sleep", "no battery optimization" etc.

Promising app and nice UI as expected from the dev. I'll review this app again as I get into deeper. I was using Daywise app for a while but when I read their privacy policy I realized that they are collecting metadata and using Google analytics for targeted advertising. Let's see how Buzzkill plays out. Remember: "if you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold".

What’s new

Fix for unsilence rule
Fix for copy verification rule
Fix duplicate name when using app icon workaround