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Scroll Less
v0.2.0 with Rollo lands in Nov 2026

The apps are engineered to keep you scrolling.

Scroll Less is engineered to help you notice.

Your screen time, unlocks, notifications, and how far you scrolled, in real meters. Limits that hold, nudges that know when you're stuck, and Rollo to ask about any of it. It doesn't shame you or lecture you. You decide what changes.

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  • No account
  • Data stays on your phone
  • Free
  • Made by one person

Scroll Calibration

How far you scrolled, in real meters

Every phone packs its pixels differently. Line a bank card's short side up with a box on screen once, and Scroll Less turns every swipe into real distance. An hour on a feed is hard to picture. A walk across three football pitches isn't.

You, on this page, so far

0.0 m

Keep going. The app measures this for every app on your phone.

Inside the app

Six screens, one honest picture

Drawn from the app's own layouts, with sample data.

Features

What's in Scroll Less

See it

A Home you arrange

13 tiles to pick from, like screen time, quick glances, first unlock, and Post Box. Place them on a grid and give any tile one of 15 shapes.

Unlocks and glances

Every unlock, counted the way Android counts it. Quick glances, where you lit the screen and opened nothing, get their own count.

Scroll distance

Meters scrolled in every app, calibrated to your own screen.

Notifications

How many, from which apps, and which ones you opened. The breakdown sorts them by category and finds your busiest hour.

App Details

One app, all its numbers: time, opens, scroll distance, notifications, and its limit.

App Visibility

Hide the apps you don't care about, and they drop out of your stats.

Understand it

Insights

Routines, focus, timing, notifications, and how your apps pull on each other. Night Owl, Rise and Shine, Digital Rush Hour, Ghost Pings, Weekend vs Weekday, and more.

You scroll most on weekday evenings, 7 to 10pm. Worth knowing.

Journeys

Your week at a glance, with your peak day, your calmest day, and how it compares to last week. Tap a day to walk through it session by session.

Lit the screen, opened nothing. The classic.

Change it

Limits and Limit Groups

A daily cap for one app, or one shared cap for a group like all your social apps. A heads up comes at 10 and 2 minutes left.

Extensions that shrink

Need more time? Up to five extensions a day, each one shorter than the last: 15, 10, 7, 5, then 3 minutes.

Puzzles before you quit

Pausing a limit takes two quick puzzle rounds. Deleting one takes three and a hold. 38 puzzles across memory, attention, numbers, and more.

Nudges

A small reminder of how long you've been in an app, every 20 minutes by default. Set it anywhere from 5 to 60.

10 minutes left on your limit. Finish up when you're ready?

Insight Nudges

Caught in the moment: a bounce between two apps, 40 minutes deep in one feed, or straight back to an app you closed.

40 minutes deep. Come up for air?

Post Box

Holds notifications from the apps you pick and delivers them together, up to five times a day.

Post Box: 7 notifications from 3 apps.
New in v0.2.0

Meet Rollo

Say scroll low out loud. Get it? Rollo reads what Scroll Less measured on your phone and answers your questions about it, with charts when a number needs one.

He leaves a goal in your feed each morning, checks in each evening, and writes a weekly review. Rollo runs on your own Gemini key, so the AI is yours to choose and turn off.

Where did my evenings go?
Most of it went to Instagram. Your evenings averaged 1h 50m this week, and Instagram took 58m of that.

Make it yours

12 skins, one app

Pick a skin and the whole app changes its fonts, shapes, and charts. Add dark, light, or pure black, colors from your wallpaper, and text from 85% to 130%.

ClassicGroovyPunchDraftArcadeZineShellFloppyEditorialCandyJellyOrbit
Haptics tuned to your phonePatterns matched to your phone's vibration motor.
Automatic backupsDaily, weekly, or monthly, to a folder you pick. Every backup is checked before it restores.
Rollo pull to refreshPull down on Home and Rollo does a little act.

Privacy

Your usage data stays on your phone

All the math runs on your device.

  • No account, no login
  • Your screen time history is never uploaded
  • No ads, and your data is never sold
  • Anonymous analytics and crash reports help fix bugs. Your history and notification content never go to them.
Read the privacy policy

Price

Free

Every feature on this page is free.

  • Rollo runs on your own Gemini key, and Google offers a free tier for those keys
  • Pro is planned for v0.3.0, with Rollo running on your phone, voice, and Rollo taking actions for you
Read the terms of service

My story

Hi, I'm Tharun

Solo dev, fellow scroller

Stop blaming yourself for your screen time. You never stood a chance against tech companies spending millions to manipulate your behavior.

Most screen time apps dump basic usage numbers on you, which does nothing to help you spot your subconscious triggers.

Scroll Less digs into your blind spots, and Rollo turns what it finds into patterns you can actually break.

I built this so people like us can understand our own minds, instead of being the ones getting manipulated.

Scroll less, live more!

1.5 yrs in, 1,350+ hrs so far!

What helped me

DocumentaryThe Social DilemmaSocial media isn't a tool that's just waiting to be used. It has its own goals, and it has its own means of pursuing them by using your psychology against you. Book by Nir EyalHookedHabits are defined as behaviors done with little or no conscious thought. Book by Nir EyalIndistractableTime management is pain management. Distractions cost us time, and like all actions, they are spurred by the desire to escape discomfort.

Our journey

The story so far

Every release, told the way it happened.

Upcoming · v0.3.0-Beta
Road aheadDec 2026

Rollo grows from a chatbot that reads and answers into an agent that acts for you. I'm training models built to help you reach your screen time goals, with voice to text and Google Drive backup too.

Coming next · v0.2.0-Beta
Meet RolloNov 2026

Chip wasn't the right fit, so I created Rollo (sc-roll-o). He reads your data and answers your questions. Your feed now brings a goal every day, weekly and monthly reviews on your progress, plus new badges and skins.

Beta · v0.1.4-Beta
Android 16Oct 2026

Built for Android 16, with fixes for backup export and import, apps with oversized icons, and overnight usage that crossed midnight.

Beta · v0.1.0-Beta
Google PlayApr 2026

Scroll Less went live on Apr 10, 2026, after 14 days of closed testing. Improvements throughout the app, bug fixes, and a better experience. And I added Chip to be your guide.

Read the whole journey

See where your time goes

No account. Your data stays on your phone.

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