Silverback: Doomscroll Tracker

Cem Tatlı

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About this app

Silverback is a doomscroll tracker that counts what you swipe past on Reels, Shorts and TikTok — and cracks your screen when you go too far.

You open Reels "for a minute" and lose an hour. Silverback counts the short videos you scroll — Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok — and a gorilla mascot reacts in real time, so mindless scrolling becomes something you feel. No shame, no lectures, nothing shut off behind your back. Just a number that makes your screen time impossible to ignore.

Then it punches back. Cross your daily limit and the gorilla cracks your screen — a jolt that snaps you out of it.

WHAT SILVERBACK DOES
• Live scroll counter — every reel and short you watch today, as it happens
• Time gone — tap the counter to see your swipes as minutes
• A gorilla that reacts — calm, awake, angry: the more you scroll, the harder it hits
• Your own limit — you decide how much is enough; the gorilla calls you out
• Break reminders (Pro) — past your limit Silverback offers a break. Accept, and Reels & Shorts go behind a full-screen lock until the timer ends. End it early any time
• Streaks — every day under your limit grows your record
• Weekly stats — day by day and app by app, free; past weeks with Pro
• Battle friends — a leaderboard where the least scrolling wins. One friend free, 9 with Pro
• Achievement badges (Pro) — collect them as your focus grows
• Home-screen widget — your reel count and the gorilla's mood, in sight
• Evening recap — one summary notification a day, at a time you pick

WORKS WITH
Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and TikTok. Silverback counts only on a short-video feed — not in DMs, comments, search or your profile. The count comes from Android's scroll signals: a close estimate, not a stopwatch.

FREE AND PRO
Free: the live counter, the gorilla overlay, the screen crack, this week's stats, your streak, the widget and Battle with one friend.
Silverback Pro: break reminders and the Reels & Shorts lock, past-week statistics, Battle with up to 9 friends, achievement badges and custom app icons. Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase; the price and any intro offer are shown before you buy.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Install Silverback and grant the permissions it asks
2. Scroll Reels, Shorts or TikTok — Silverback counts as you go
3. Pass your limit and the gorilla cracks the screen

WHO IT'S FOR
If you doomscroll in bed, lose focus at work, or want your time back from Reels and Shorts, Silverback is built for you. A screen time tracker and an awareness tool in one — for people who tried willpower, tried an app blocker, and want something that pushes back.

FOCUS, NOT GUILT
Silverback is a dopamine detox that feels like a game, not a punishment. Less doomscrolling, less brain rot, less phone addiction — more focus, better digital wellbeing. Use it to stop doomscrolling, set a screen time limit for short video and build the self control to put your phone down.

PRIVACY AND PERMISSIONS
Silverback uses Android's Accessibility Service only to detect a supported short-video screen and the scroll signals needed to count swipes. Your screen content, messages and passwords are never recorded, stored or sent anywhere. Silverback does collect and transmit diagnostics from that service — supported app, aggregate scroll count, session duration, count strategy, detection and overlay errors — with a pseudonymous app/device ID and device/OS details, processed by PostHog EU only to improve counting reliability. Never used for ads, never sold. The counter works without an account; if you choose Google Sign-In for Battle, your profile and aggregate score are used for friend leaderboards. On a short-video feed Silverback keeps one quiet, ongoing notification: that is what keeps the counter and overlay alive.

Whether you call it doomscrolling, brain rot or short video addiction — Silverback is the scroll tracker that makes it visible. Stop scrolling. Start living. The silverback's got your back.

What’s new

• Before you grant Accessibility, one screen now spells out exactly what Silverback collects
• The same explanation shows up when you grant it from the home screen prompt
• The explanation fits the screen — no scrolling needed to read it