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Killswitch: No Doomscroll
Live on Google Play

Kill the feed.Keep theconversation.

Killswitch cuts short videos and infinite scrolling in the apps you choose, while comments, chats and replies keep working.

Get it on Google Play How it works
live.demoScroll the feed
feed.appFor you
Swipes (10 s)0/8
Blocks this visit0
Demo threshold: 8 swipes in 10 sAdjustable in app
0
Bytes collected
0
Network requests
27
Feed apps it can guard
3
Levels, light to strict

The feed ends.
The chat doesn't.

  1. >

    Pick targets

    Tick the apps you lose time in on TARGETS. Allow screen time and the list is sorted by the hours you really spend in each. The service listens to those apps and nothing else.

  2. >>

    Choose your level

    SHORTS ONLY blocks short videos and nothing else. SHORTS + BINGE also cuts the feed once you flick through it non-stop. NO SCROLLING cuts it on the first swipe. One level for every app, or one per app.

  3. >>>

    Get cut off

    A block screen shows for about three seconds and names what it stopped: Shorts, Reels, TikToks. Then you land in the app's inbox, or outside the app if you prefer. Three 5-minute passes a day for when you really need the feed.

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    See the difference

    STATS shows interruptions over the last 7 days, time spent in feeds, time reclaimed and how many days in a row the guard has been armed.

Screens

Four tabs. Nothing else.

STATUS, TARGETS, STATS and CONFIG. Everything Killswitch does is on one of them.

STATUS screen: Killswitch armed, 69 feeds cut today, time reclaimed, scrolls seen and the armed streak.
StatusArmed
TARGETS screen: Instagram, Reddit, Threads and TikTok guarded, each with its blocking level.
TargetsYour apps
TARGETS screen with the level picker open for Instagram: SHORTS ONLY, SHORTS + BINGE, NO SCROLLING.
TargetsLevel per app
CONFIG screen: the three levels with what each one blocks. Messages work in every mode.
ConfigThree levels
STATS screen: interruptions over the last 7 days, time in feeds and all-time totals.
StatsLast 7 days

Privacy

Nothing leaves your phone.

No account, no server, no analytics SDK, no tracking of any kind. Everything the app knows lives in its own storage on your phone, and uninstalling it deletes all of it.

killswitch.auditFrom the privacy policy
Account
None
Server
None
Analytics / crash SDK
None
Advertising
None
Network requests
0
Works in airplane mode
Yes, permanently
QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES
Not requested
Text on screen
Tapped button labels only, never kept
Screen time
Optional, never stored
Stored on device
Targets, counters, settings

Two permissions and one optional, fully explained.

AccessibilityService

Detecting the scroll

  • Receives scroll, tap and screen-change events, only from the apps you ticked
  • Reads screen structure (view IDs, class names, sizes) to tell a feed or a short video from a thread
  • Reads only the short label of a button you tap, like Inbox, and keeps nothing
  • Never reads your text, messages or comments
  • No keylogging, no screenshots, no recording
  • Off until you switch it on, off whenever you want
SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW

Drawing the block screen

  • Names what it stopped (Shorts, Reels, TikToks) and shows your count for the day
  • Dismisses itself after about three seconds
  • No advertising, no tap collection
  • Never appears over apps you did not guard
PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS

Showing your screen time (optional)

  • Sorts TARGETS by the minutes a day you really spend in each feed app
  • Looks only at the feed apps on Killswitch's list
  • Read on the phone, never stored, never sent
  • Killswitch works fully without it

Read the full privacy policy ↗

Put the phone
down.

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