Watching Shorts and Reels and wasting a lot of time? With this app, you regain control.

These days, short-form video material is widely available on platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. You can spend a lot of time scrolling through these videos, but one developer has found a way to stop it.

Sane Scrolling is a brand-new Android app developed by Reddit developer IJagan. This prevents apps from displaying short-form video material without disabling the app as a whole. If you require access to other capabilities in these apps (such posts and direct messages), this could be quite helpful.

Short-form videos on YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram can now be blocked by Sane Scrolling. The developer is amenable to including additional services, including Facebook, on the list, though.

Additionally, the program doesn’t track or gather personal information, according to the developer:

What else should you know about Sane Scrolling?

However, there are a few drawbacks to the app. It has advertisements, sometimes full-screen, to start. Though your experience may differ, these aren’t very significant. Although you can always return to Sane Scrolling to change the app that is prohibited, blocking short-form videos from multiple apps at once requires payment. Although I experienced no issues using the free version on two phones at once, the software also indicates that you would need to pay a monthly fee to use it on one, two, or an infinite number of devices.

Thankfully, the developer informed Android Authority that the “subscription” term in the app was an error and would be removed in the upcoming version, and that all in-app purchases are one-time costs. The developer also affirmed that the various price tiers solely relate to the amount of devices that can be utilized, and that all in-app purchases offer the same functionality (such as deleting advertisements and supporting multiple prohibited apps).

Additionally, the free version allows you to view an advertisement to prolong the time by one, ten, or fifteen minutes after your timer expires. According to the creator, this was done on purpose “to deter users from abusing the extension/changing daily limit once it expires.” Users of the commercial edition will have to pay an additional price in order to extend the timeframe.

Additionally, the developer has acknowledged that they are investigating other features for the platform, such as cooldown timers, per-app timers, and the ability to prevent feed scrolling in general.

In any case, this is a fantastic concept because constant scrolling and short-form video material may be a huge time waster. We are therefore happy to see a developer address this problem.

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