Remove Reels, Shorts, and other infinite feeds while preserving the useful parts of social and video apps.
Added Aug 14, 2026
Medium opportunity (74%)
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People want to stop compulsive short-form scrolling but still need Instagram, YouTube, and similar apps for messages, relationships, news, and intentional videos. Existing screen-time tools often block the entire app, fail to enforce limits consistently, or accidentally lock users out of allowed functions. These failures make an otherwise valuable behavior-change tool easy to abandon.
Build a privacy-first mobile product that selectively hides or interrupts designated feeds inside supported apps while leaving messaging, search, subscriptions, calls, and chosen content available. Pair granular controls with named schedules, notification suppression, local-only configuration, and a tightly limited emergency-access workflow. Start with a small set of high-demand feeds and publish device-specific reliability guarantees rather than offering broad but fragile blocking.
Short-form feeds are spreading across otherwise useful communication and media apps, making whole-app blocking increasingly impractical. Multiple recent reviews request selective blocking, while reports of unreliable timers and broken allowlists reveal room for a focused product built around enforcement reliability.
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MOST EFFECTIVE SCREEN TIME APP! No Scroll is the reason why my screen time went from 8 hours a day to only 2 hours 🙌 I’ve tried a bunch of different screen time apps, but none of them were able to stop my doomscrolling. It adds just enough friction to stop doomscrolling while still allowing me to use my apps! I’m so glad I found this app because I finally have more time for the things I care about instead of scrolling tiktoks.
Paid app There is no permanently free plan. It might be okay for you to spend $40 every year for this, but for me, a paid-only app is a dealbreaker.
I needed this I can see that it’s making a difference in my day, also while highlighting how much of a social media issue I have had .
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