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
• Keep a history of your notifications so you review or restore them later
• And many more...

FAQ: https://buzzkillapp.com
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

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.

This used to be good, but these days the app is getting killed/turned off after some time, so none of my filters works until I open this app again. I thought it would be my phone's (OnePlus 11) battery optimization, so I excluded this app from any battery optimization, still no luck. Also tried always allowing background activity for this app, that didn't work either.

Purchased on 1st meet.Loved the app. UI is great. There are some bugs. 1. Not always killing notifications in my Xiaomi phone, even if I run without power optimization. 2. Serach is buggy, if i put upto 3 characters, all apps with those letters are shown, if i put 4 characters, some app vanish even they contain those characters.

What’s new

New "Activity" view in history to see what rules did and didn't triggered & why
New filter for microphone state (e.g. don't trigger a rule using voice input)
For "Add snooze button" rule you can select a custom time to restore it per-notification
When a batched notification changes and no longer matches the rule, it is automatically restored
Custom alert will bypass DND if original notification did
Alarm screen now shows the action from the original notification as a button