Short videos are designed to be hard to stop watching. ScrollBreak removes exactly that part of Instagram and YouTube, and leaves everything else alone.
Get ScrollBreak freeYou keep Instagram and YouTube. You just lose the part that keeps you scrolling for an hour without meaning to.
No account, no setup wizard, no daily check-in.
Grant the accessibility permission once. ScrollBreak walks you through it.
Block Instagram, YouTube, or both. Independently, whenever you want.
ScrollBreak detects it and closes that screen. You are back where you were in a fraction of a second.
There is no account, no server, no database and no analytics — so there is nowhere for your data to go. ScrollBreak uses Android's accessibility service, restricted to Instagram and YouTube only, to detect those two screens. It never reads or stores your screen content, messages or passwords. Read the full privacy policy.
No. Only the Reels player. Your feed, stories, messages, search and profiles keep working exactly as before. Same with YouTube: normal videos are untouched, only Shorts get closed.
It is the only public API in Android that lets an app react to what is on screen in another app. There is no alternative that does this. The service is restricted to Instagram and YouTube, so Android does not hand it information about anything else on your device.
Yes. No ads, no subscription, no data collection.
Instagram and YouTube change their apps regularly, and detection sometimes needs an update on our side. If something stops working, email us instead of leaving a one-star review — it can usually be fixed in a few days.
Not yet. iOS does not offer an equivalent API, so this is Android only for now.