AwayDoomscrollin'

Break the scrolling loop without losing touch. AwayDoomscrollin' is an open-source Android accessibility app from Resolve Community that limits feeds and short-video scrolling on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube while keeping purposeful use available.

Protection and compatibility: • Protection uses accessibility information provided by other apps. It reads the structure of the screen rather than its text, so it works the same in any language. App, Android or device software changes can delay detection or cause missed or incorrect detections. Protection is not guaranteed to work perfectly on every device.

Features: • Instagram: Both modes cover Home and Explore and block the Reels tab. Messages and search remain available. Balanced keeps profiles and profile posts open and lets you watch one Reel you open with its comments; swiping to the next one takes you back. Stories and Highlights also remain available in Balanced. Strict additionally covers profile posts and blocks Reels, Stories and Highlights. Shared media galleries in message details may also be covered. • YouTube: Both modes cover Home and Subscriptions and block the Shorts tab. Search results, channels, playlists, the You tab and long videos remain available. Strict blocks all Shorts. Balanced lets you watch one Short opened from search, a channel or a link; swiping to the next one takes you back. Scrolling comments does not count as changing videos. • TikTok: Opening and browsing TikTok is allowed. The first swipe to the next video in a video feed takes you back, and on Home every top tab other than For You switches back to For You. TikTok has one protection setting, without Strict and Balanced modes. • User control: Protection can be disabled from the app or Android accessibility settings; the app does not monitor settings or prevent service deactivation. • Analytics: View block counts for today, this week, this month and all time, the hour with the most attempts, measured Instagram and YouTube curtain durations and a daily streak that counts every day protection is on. Curtain time is not an estimate of time saved.

Privacy and network transparency: • The Android manifest declares INTERNET permission. Screen-content analysis and blocking run on-device, but the app is not fully offline. • Optional usage-data sharing is off by default. No telemetry request is made and no telemetry installation UUID is created until you read the detailed disclosure and choose “Agree to share.” Protection works without sharing. • While enabled, telemetry sends v3 protocol/report identifiers, a random installation UUID, device model, Android and screen information, AwayDoomscrollin', Instagram, TikTok and YouTube versions, total and per-app intervention counts, and accumulated Instagram and YouTube curtain-visibility times with their measurement versions to awaydoomscrollin.com. Local streak days and XP are not sent. Users who previously enabled v2 sharing are asked again before the expanded v3 summary is sent. Explicit opt-in may trigger one immediate attempt; later automatic attempts share one persisted 24-hour interval. Turning telemetry off stops new submissions, though an in-flight request may finish. The latest active server snapshot expires within 90 days, encrypted local backups use a separate 14-day rotation, and the server stores a SHA-256 installation key rather than the raw UUID. • Detection and protection logic runs entirely on-device; internet access is never used for protection decisions.

AwayDoomscrollin' is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Meta, ByteDance, Google, Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube. Their names are used only to describe compatibility.