SocialZen opens the social apps you already use, with the parts built to keep you scrolling taken out.

Messages, profiles, search and posting all work exactly as they did. Reels, Shorts, For You, Explore and the suggestion rails do not appear at all.

WHAT GETS REMOVED
• Short-form video — Reels, Shorts and the For You feed
• Explore, trending rails and "suggested for you" injected between real posts
• Ads and trackers, refused at the network rather than hidden after they load
• Like and view counts, comment sections and story trays — each one optional

WHAT STAYS
• Direct messages and group chats
• Profiles, followers and search
• Posting, replying and reacting
• A video someone sends you in a chat plays once, then takes you back to the conversation instead of sliding into the next one

OPEN THE REAL APP, LAND IN THE CALM ONE
Turn on interception and tapping Instagram opens the filtered Instagram instead — straight there, with no stop screen and no notification to tap. You can also put a real home-screen icon on your launcher for each network.

DECIDE IN ADVANCE
• Sleep Mode locks the apps overnight, on a window you set while you are not tired
• Daily limits give each network a budget. Lowering one applies at once; raising one you have already spent waits until tomorrow
• Schedules turn interception on for work hours, evenings or weekends

SEE WHERE THE TIME WENT
SocialZen shows how long you spend inside the filtered apps, and — with your permission — how long the unfiltered apps were used, including before you installed it. So there is a before to compare the after against.

PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION
There is no account and no server. No analytics, no crash reporting, no ad SDK. Your logins belong to the sites themselves, exactly as they would in a browser, and SocialZen has no way to read them. Every number is computed on your phone and stays there.

ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY ACCESS
Redirecting the real apps needs Android's accessibility service, which is how an app is told that another app came to the foreground. SocialZen reads one thing from that: the package name, checked against the list you chose. It does not request permission to read screen contents and it cannot. Nothing is stored or sent anywhere. The feature is optional — every other part of the app works without it.

FREE, AND PRO
Every platform, every content filter, the scroll-stop and the ad blocking are free forever. Pro adds the enforcement and the depth: blocking the real apps, Sleep Mode, daily limits, unlimited schedules, a home-screen icon per network and thirty days of history.