UnRot
Block Reels, Shorts & TikTok to stop doomscrolling
Details
- External ID
- 1248248
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- UnRot
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Android, Productivity
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
UnRot is a free, open-source Android app to stop brain rot without cutting you off from friends. Unlike blunt blockers, UnRot surgically intercepts only short-form video players (Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Facebook Reels). Your messages and feeds stay accessible. Key features: • Surgical block for short video feeds • Daily limits with visual progress rings • Interval timer for controlled breaks • Floating live awareness timer • 100% on-device, zero ads & zero tracking
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- app blocker for social media
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight open-source Android app leveraging the native Android AccessibilityService API to detect short-form video view containers and perform an automated back press.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 54 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 55 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 242 days after the earliest competitor.
- Doomless: Block & Limit Shorts and Reels · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- ShieldBrain Reels Counter App · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Unscroll · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Scroll Brake — App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Stop Me: Quit Doomscrolling · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- NekoLock · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Nomo: App Blocker & Focus · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Reels Player - Offline Video · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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