DoNotNotify
Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
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Why - I got sick of apps abusing notifications on my Android phone. While the OS does give you the ability to switch off notifications based on channels, most apps either don't use it or abuse it intentionally. In my case, I live in a gated society that uses an app called MyGate to allow visitors, and the app intentionally pushes ads through the same channels since you cannot block them.What - DoNotNotify is an app that logs all incoming notifications, and displays them grouped by app. It also captures the action behind the notification, which can be triggered from the app itself. From this log, you can create rules to whitelist/blacklist notifications from apps depending on their notification content. These filters can even be regex expressions, which allows for more complicated use-cases. The app ships with some pre-defined rules for popular apps like Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, Netflix, TikTok, Reddit etc.Where - The website is at https://donotnotify.com/.Would also like to call out that the app runs purely on your device, never communicates with anything on the Internet, and only requires notifications access to work. It is completely free, and there is no advertising or hidden gotchas.
HN · launched Jan 5, 2026 · 347 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: mobile system utility apps · 186 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▲ +6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes Android provides a standard NotificationListenerService API that allows an app to inspect incoming notifications, run local pattern matching or regex, and dismiss unwanted alerts.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: GrapheneOS, NetGuard, Pixel's Data Saver, ReThink, F-Droid
Concerns raised: Closed source code prevents auditing of data handling, Potential telemetry collection and sale to advertisers, Apps can gain internet permission via updates without user notification, Data can be exfiltrated through intents or shared storage even without internet permission, Ads work via Play Services even when app internet is blocked
Feature requests: Enforced reproducible builds from multiple sources with verifiable published results, Open source the tool with hosted rulesets/ML models as business model, Granular notification blocking by subcategory within apps, Per-app notification channel filtering capability, Ability to block background location scanning via WiFi/Bluetooth
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 403 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 404 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 37 days after the earliest competitor.
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