Do you keep opening Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts “for 5 minutes” and then lose an hour?
Unscroll: Block Reels & Shorts helps you break the doomscroll habit by automatically blocking addictive short-video feeds so you can focus on what actually matters.
🚫 Block Reels, Shorts & endless feeds
Unscroll uses Android’s Accessibility Service to detect when you open addictive short-video screens and gently stop you before you fall into infinite scrolling.
With Unscroll, you can:
Block Reels, Shorts and similar short-video feeds
Reduce doomscrolling and impulsive social media use
Make your phone feel calm and focused again
⚙️ Key features
Block Reels & Shorts in supported social apps
Per-app controls – choose which apps to protect
Smart protection that works quietly in the background
Simple, clean UI designed for productivity, not distraction
Optimised for Android 11+ so it keeps running reliably
🎯 Why use Unscroll?
Short-video feeds are designed to keep you hooked. One swipe becomes fifty.
Unscroll flips this: instead of your feeds controlling you, you control your time.
Use Unscroll to:
Study or work without getting pulled into Reels and Shorts
Protect your sleep by cutting late-night scrolling
Build healthier screen-time habits over time
🚀 How to get started
Install Unscroll.
Open the app and enable the Accessibility Service when prompted.
Select which apps you want Unscroll to protect.
That’s it – Unscroll will now help block Reels, Shorts and similar feeds in the background.
Take back control of your attention.
Unscroll: Block Reels & Shorts helps you scroll less and live more.