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

useful tool, but it's not perfect. 3.5 stars or 4 stars. there's many pros, but my issues: long unorganized list of notifications rules. Setting the same rule for 2+ apps is not straightforward. Sometimes notifications are categorized as conversations in Buzzhill history, when they're not (so the history hides some notifs). Some features can be improved (e.g. summarized or stickied notifications appear under Buzzkill category, all with the same notification sound.

One of the best apps hands down. Great ui, great features, great developers, no data harvesting or selling, and even works great with Tasker. BuzzKill such a great app, and paired with Tasker, you can have tasker apply BuzzKill actions whenever. So, for example, I have my tasker setup for when I arrive home, it uses Hail through Dhizuku to hide work apps that have notifications that persist through dnd (like teams and outlook), then enables my buzzkill rule to block the notifications.

To stop Google Message reaction notifications I set up two rules: 1.) When I get a notification from Messages that contains " to "" then mute 2.) When I get a notification from Messages that contains " to "" then dismiss immediately (a banner appears for a second but auto-dismisses & no notification vibration/sound. Hallelujah they were driving me crazy)

What’s new

New: Multi-tool action - you can now trigger multiple actions in the same rule
Fix: Pocket check support for Samsung & other devices with limited proximity sensors
Fix: Unsilence for calls for Samsung phone app
Fix: Improve app icon workaround for other types of notifications