OffScroll: Reel Blocker App

Short videos are designed to keep you scrolling. This app is designed to stop them.

Block Reels and Shorts at the source. Instead of blocking Instagram, YouTube, Facebook or TikTok entirely, it hides only the short video feeds inside them, so you keep messaging, posting and searching while the endless scroll disappears. Open Instagram, use it normally, and the Reels tab simply will not pull you in.

Then it does what a pure blocker cannot: it shows you where your time actually went, and helps you take it back.

WHAT YOU GET

Reel and Shorts blocker
Block Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels and TikTok individually. Turn each one on or off, and schedule when blocking applies so you can allow short videos at lunch but block them during work and before bed.

Screen time tracker
See exactly how long you spend in every app, every day. Clear daily, weekly and monthly breakdowns with charts, so your screen time stops being a guess.

App limits and strict mode
Set a daily time limit on any app. When the limit runs out, the app locks. Strict mode protects your limits behind a PIN, so the version of you at 1am cannot undo the decision the sensible version of you made.

Mindful pause
A short breathing prompt appears before a distracting app opens. A few seconds is usually all it takes to notice you did not actually mean to open it.

Focus sessions
Start a focus session and distractions stay locked out. A floating timer keeps the countdown visible while you work, so you can see the session running without leaving what you are doing.

Habit score and streaks
Your digital habits get scored daily. Build streaks, watch the score climb, and get a genuine sense of progress rather than vague guilt.

Detox challenges
Structured challenges and focus fasting sessions to help you break phone addiction in steps instead of going cold turkey and quitting by Wednesday.

Coach
A built in coach reads your own usage patterns and suggests what to change next. It runs entirely on your device.

Export your reports
Export your screen time data to PDF or Excel. Useful if you are tracking digital wellbeing seriously, coaching someone, or just want a record outside the app.

BUILT TO RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY

Your usage data never leaves your phone. There is no account, no sign up, no cloud sync and no analytics server. Everything is stored locally on your device. An app that tracks how you use your phone should not be shipping that information anywhere, so this one does not.

WHO IT IS FOR

Anyone who opens a phone to check one thing and resurfaces forty minutes later. Students who need to study, people working from home, parents trying to model better habits, and anyone who has realised that short video feeds are taking more of their day than they agreed to.

You do not need to delete your apps or quit social media. You just need the endless scroll to stop being automatic.

PERMISSIONS

This app uses the Accessibility Service to detect and hide short video feeds inside other apps, and to apply app limits and focus sessions. This permission is used only for blocking and limiting on your device. It is never used to collect, store or transmit your personal data.

Take back control of your screen time. Block the Reels, keep the apps.