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TL;DR
- A brand new app known as Sane Scrolling guarantees to dam short-form video content material on varied apps.
- The app enables you to set a timer so Shorts are blocked after a specified time frame.
- Sane Scrolling solely blocks short-form movies, so you’ll be able to nonetheless verify direct messages, your feed, and extra.
Brief-form video content material is all over the place as of late, with the likes of TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram all providing this format. These movies is usually a main time-waster as you scroll endlessly via them, however one developer has give you an answer.
Developer IJagan on Reddit created a brand new Android app known as Sane Scrolling. This blocks short-form video content material on apps with out truly blocking your complete app. This may very well be extraordinarily helpful should you want entry to different options in these apps (e.g., direct messages, and posts).
Sane Scrolling can presently block short-form movies on YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram. Nevertheless, the developer is open to including extra providers, equivalent to Fb, to the listing.
The developer additionally said that the app doesn’t monitor or gather private particulars:
It solely detects which app is energetic and whether or not short-form video content material is displayed on the display screen — nothing extra.
What else ought to you understand about Sane Scrolling?
There are a few downsides to the app, although. For one, it affords advertisements, together with the occasional full-screen advert. These aren’t an enormous deal, however your mileage could differ. You additionally have to pay to dam short-form movies from a couple of app at a time, though you’ll be able to at all times return into Sane Scrolling to change the presently blocked app. The app additionally suggests that you just’ll have to pay a subscription payment to make use of the app on one, two, or an infinite variety of units, though I had no issues utilizing the free model on two telephones concurrently.
Thankfully, the developer advised Android Authority that every one in-app purchases are one-time charges and that the “subscription” time period seen within the app was a mistake and could be fastened within the subsequent replace. The developer additionally confirmed that every one in-app purchases grant the identical options (e.g., eradicating advertisements and supporting a number of blocked apps), with the totally different buy tiers solely making use of to the variety of units that can be utilized.
It’s additionally price noting that when your timer runs out, the free model enables you to watch an advert to increase the time by a minute, 10 minutes, or quarter-hour. Customers on the paid model shall be required to pay an additional payment to increase the timer, with the developer saying this was a deliberate choice “to discourage customers from abusing the extension/altering each day restrict as soon as it expires.”
The developer has additionally confirmed that they’re exploring extra options for the platform, together with per-app timers, the flexibility to dam feed scrolling on the whole, and a cooldown timer.
In any occasion, it is a nice concept as the mix of short-form video content material and limitless scrolling is usually a main waste of time. So we’re glad to see a developer sort out this subject.