No. II · Digital wellbeing
Inspired by Dalí, The Persistence of Memory
UnRot
Scroll Less. Keep Your DMs.
Opened Instagram for one message and looked up 40 minutes later, still swiping?
UnRot blocks the endless short-video feed and leaves the rest of the app alone. Your DMs, posts, search and normal YouTube videos keep working. Only the reels go. Pick your apps, pick a rule, and UnRot closes reels and shorts the moment they open, with a short note telling you why.
What it does
Pick a rule, keep your time
Block completely
Reels and Shorts close as soon as they open. No feed, no “just one more”.
Daily limit
Prefer a budget to a ban? Watch up to your limit, say 15 or 30 minutes, then reels stay blocked until midnight.
Breaks
A few minutes every hour or two, never a binge.
Live on-screen timer
A small floating timer shows how long you've been scrolling and how many reels you've watched. Seeing the number is often enough to stop.
See what scrolling costs
Tell UnRot how long you scroll and it shows the hours and days a year your reels take, and how much your plan wins back.
Track your progress
Today's time and reel count, a timeline of every session, and how much time you saved this week.
The gallery
A look inside
The details
Made to be fair
- Pause when you need it
- Need to check one thing? Pause blocking for a few minutes. It switches back on by itself.
- Reels from friends
- Choose whether reels friends send you in chats still open.
- Private by design
- UnRot never reads your messages, passwords or what's in a video. No ads.
- Why accessibility permission?
- Only to notice when a reel or short is open on screen, so it can close it and count your time. What's on your screen never leaves your phone.
Made for
Who it's for
- Anyone who wants less screen time without deleting the apps they need.
- People trying to stop doomscrolling or do a digital detox.
- Students and workers who want focus hours that actually stick.
Take back your time.
Download UnRot today.
Works with Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Facebook and Facebook Lite Reels, and Snapchat Spotlight. UnRot is an independent app and is not affiliated with any of them.