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TL;DR
- A brand new app referred to as Sane Scrolling guarantees to dam short-form video content material on varied apps.
- The app allows 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 in all places today, with the likes of TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram all providing this format. These movies could be a main time-waster as you scroll endlessly via them, however one developer has provide you with an answer.
Developer IJagan on Reddit created a brand new Android app referred to as Sane Scrolling. This blocks short-form video content material on apps with out truly blocking all the app. This might be extraordinarily helpful when you want entry to different options in these apps (e.g., direct messages, and posts).
Sane Scrolling can at the moment block short-form movies on YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram. Nevertheless, the developer is open to including extra providers, akin 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 — nothing extra.
What else ought to you understand about Sane Scrolling?
There are a few downsides to the app, although. For one, it gives adverts, together with the occasional full-screen advert. These aren’t an enormous deal, however your mileage might fluctuate. You additionally must 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 at the moment blocked app. The app additionally suggests that you simply’ll must pay a subscription price 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.
Fortuitously, 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 adverts 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 after your timer runs out, the free model allows you to watch an advert to increase the time by a minute, 10 minutes, or quarter-hour. Customers on the paid model might be required to pay an additional price to increase the timer, with the developer saying this was a deliberate determination “to discourage customers from abusing the extension/altering day by 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 power to dam feed scrolling basically, and a cooldown timer.
In any occasion, it is a nice concept as the mixture of short-form video content material and countless scrolling could be a main waste of time. So we’re glad to see a developer deal with this problem.
