Elseway: Stop Doomscrolling

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About this app

Elseway helps you break the doomscroll and spend less time in the apps that pull you in. Not by blocking you, but by giving the urge somewhere better to go.

Most screen-time apps do the same thing: they block you, time you out, or make you wait. Elseway does the opposite. When you open an app you've chosen to pause, Elseway meets you with your own memories instead: your favorite photos, reframed to feel new. The idea is simple. Your brain craves the swipe, not the app. Give the swipe somewhere else to land, and the pull fades. Same swipe, none of the regret. A moment later, you choose: continue to the app, or move on with your day.

This is substitution, not friction. Nothing to fight, nothing to feel guilty about, no willpower required. Just something else in the exact moment you'd usually fall in.

HOW IT WORKS
• Choose the apps you want to pause, like TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube.
• Open one, and Elseway offers a short feed of your own photos.
• Swipe through for a moment, then continue to the app, or step away.
• Surgical by design: for Instagram, only Reels is intercepted; for YouTube, only Shorts. Your messages, regular videos, and everything else are left completely alone.
• Set protection schedules for the times of day you most want to stay off the scroll.

WHAT'S IN THE FEED
Your own camera-roll photos, nothing from the internet. Each one is reframed with a dated caption ("3 years ago...") so an old memory feels newly seen, and Pro adds a rotating set of new looks so the same photo never feels the same twice. Pro also keeps the feed clean, filtering out screenshots, receipts, and other clutter so only real memories surface. Personal, visually rich, never stimulating.

WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
Blockers make you feel restricted, so you bypass them or delete them. Elseway meets the urge with something better, right when it strikes. It's not a blocker, it's something else: your own photos, in the moment you reach for the feed.

WHAT YOU GET
• A short substitute feed of your own memories
• Your own camera-roll photos, reframed to feel new (Pro adds rotating restyled looks and filters out screenshots and clutter)
• Choose which apps to pause
• Reels-only and Shorts-only interception: surgical, not all-or-nothing
• Protection schedules for your high-risk times of day
• See your progress: scrolls averted, time saved, and daily streaks
• Adjustable timing to fit how you want to use it

ACCESSIBILITY ACCESS
Elseway uses Android's Accessibility Service to detect the moment you open an app you've chosen to pause (including Reels or Shorts), so it can show your substitute feed right then. This is core to how Elseway works. It is never used to collect or share personal or sensitive data, and never reads your screen content, messages, or keystrokes. You enable it yourself during setup and can turn it off any time in Android Settings.

PRIVACY FIRST
Elseway has no accounts, no ads, and no tracking across apps or websites. Your photos never leave your device: they are read on the device, shown to you, and nothing more. The only thing Elseway sends is anonymous product-usage events, such as a feed being opened, with no name, email, or account attached, so we can see which features people actually use. Uninstalling deletes everything stored on your device. Full policy: https://elseway.app/privacy

Terms of Use: https://elseway.app/terms
Privacy Policy: https://elseway.app/privacy

Whether you're trying to beat phone addiction, build healthier habits, or just scroll less, Elseway is a different path to digital wellbeing.

Same swipe. None of the regret.

Go another way.