MonitorVC

Luis Ainza

About this app

Monitor Video-Counter (MonitorVC or MVC) counts short videos you view on Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok, compares your activity with a daily goal, and creates weekly and monthly reports. Available in English and Spanish; language follows your phone settings.

MonitorVC does not analyze or collect video content or personal information. Pop-up dialogs are optional. The screen is not blocked unless you enable the On-Screen Reminder, which covers your feed for 10 seconds.

**FEATURES**

• **Count Panel:** A floating panel on Reels, Shorts, and TikTok shows progress toward your daily goal, a status symbol, and a progress bar. It appears when you switch videos, does not intercept taps, and disappears after 5 seconds. Adjust its opacity or hide it; counting continues when hidden.

• **Vibrations:** A long vibration signals that you have reached your limit. If Reminder Vibrations is enabled, you’ll feel another vibration every five videos beyond the limit.

• **Today:** Ring, Summary, and List views show your streak, scrolling time, and sessions. Status messages update when settings change, at midnight, and when rest time begins.

• **History and daily details:** A monthly calendar shows five daily states with colors and symbols. Daily details include statistics, averages, videos per hour, social-media distribution, and that day’s settings.

• **Reports:** Weekly (Monday–Sunday) and monthly reports arrive in your inbox. Unread reports are marked. Reports compare daily video counts with your goal and include time, sessions, platform distribution, and videos per hour, compared with the previous period. Export and share reports as PDFs.

**GOALS**

• **Daily Video Limit:** Set a maximum from 5 to 200 videos (50 by default). The goal is met when your count stays below the target.

• **Rest Time:** Choose a time that lasts until midnight (20:00 by default), or disable it. The app marks that you continued past rest time if you watch more than 5 videos during it.

• **Rest Day:** Set one or more days with a goal of 0, or choose none. The first video exceeds the goal. Today displays “0 videos”; the progress bar fills with the first video, and reports highlight a successful rest day in purple. Sunday is the default rest day.

At local midnight, a new day’s rules and goals take effect when no scrolling session is active. For example, moving from Saturday to a rest Sunday sets the goal to 0. Each day saves its selected goals, and Today is recalculated under the new rules.

**IMPORTANT**

• MonitorVC requires the Accessibility permission for background counting and panel display. Read and accept the Accessibility Declarations during onboarding, then grant permission in Accessibility Settings. Onboarding includes instructions and a shortcut to those settings.

• Accept the Privacy Policy (https://luisainza.github.io/monitorvc-privacy-policy/) and Terms and Conditions (https://luisainza.github.io/monitorvc-terms-conditions/) during onboarding.

• Updates to supported social-media apps may affect counting.

• Data stays in private local databases. Backups and data extraction are disabled. The only data you can export from MonitorVC are report PDFs that you choose where to share.

• Daily activity updates when the service detects that you are on MonitorVC or on a compatible launcher home screen. MonitorVC currently supports 27 launchers; unsupported launchers may affect activity updates. Check terms and conditions to see the list of supported launchers.

• User Interface made with the Material 3 library and with Agent Assisted Development.

What’s new

Launch version