BuzzKill - Notification Focus

Sam Ruston

About this app

BuzzKill allows you to see the notifications you want to see when you want to see them and filter out those 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 - Reply to a message if you haven't seen it after a while
• Vibration - Custom vibration for apps or contacts. Know who is messaging you without looking at your phone
• Remind me - Keep buzzing 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 to make them fit your schedule
• Alarm - Get your attention such as for a security camera notification
• Secret - Hide the content of the notification
• And many more...

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.

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.

Ratings and reviews

Thank you so much. I couldn't figure out how to do this myself in automation apps, and I really needed my phone to be quiet when someone in particular likes to text multiple times in a row when I'm asleep. EDIT- sometimes if another text comes in fast enough, it'll still go off, but overall it's been helping since I installed it. The dev also reached out again after quite awhile and I assumed they had forgotten, so it was nice that they got back in touch!

I guess it has a lot of potential. It seems to have many functions that may be worthwhile, so it will take time before I know if I really like it. I hope it's worth the money I was prodded to spend without a trial period. So far, my only problem is that this app doesn't let me choose a notification sound. I was expecting to use some sort of unique notification sound that would stand out from others. But it uses the phone's default sound.

Buzzkill is easily the best app purchase I've ever made. It's allowed me to fix all of things that annoyed me most about using my phone. I use it to make Google Task notifications play an alarm. I use it to dismiss annoying Android system notifications for apps I trust. I use it to dismiss notifications from work after 10pm and to suppress the notification sound so I can actually sleep! Thank you for the great app Sam and for not jumping on the subscription bandwagon! I love this app!

What's new

Add option to filter notifications by ringer state
Add custom alert importance level setting to change which notifications can trigger custom alert rules
Improve alarm notification with more info and tap to open
Add explore suggestion to mute when screen is on
Bug fixes