When we launched NoScroll, the goal was simple: help people take back control of their attention. Since then, hundreds of thousands of you have installed it, rated it, and most valuably, told us exactly what you need! Today, we're shipping NoScroll 2.0. Not a minor update. A full rebuild. Here's everything that's new.
What's New
Everything, Actually. Rebuilt From The Ground Up.
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Rebuilt Accessibility Engine
The core service powering NoScroll has been rewritten from scratch. It's now faster, dramatically lighter on battery, and most importantly, it no longer silently stops working after a few hours*.
Core Infrastructure
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New Stats Dashboard
You can't change what you can't see. The new Stats Dashboard gives you a clear, honest picture of your habits, Blocked Reels, scrolling sessions, and total time scrolled. The numbers will surprise you. Good. That's the point.
New Feature
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App PIN Lock
We all have weak moments. Now you can lock any app directly through NoScroll using your PIN. Opened Instagram on autopilot at 11 PM? The lock is there before your brain catches up. It's a simple addition that makes a big difference in practice.
Focus Tool
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Enhanced Pause Restrictions
The old Pause button had a loophole: spam it, and you could bypass your blocks indefinitely. That's fixed. NoScroll 2.0 puts real guardrails on pause, the kind that actually make you sit with the urge for a moment before giving in. Discomfort is the feature.
Anti-Bypass
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Full UI Revamp
The entire interface has been redesigned. Cleaner hierarchy, faster navigation, and a visual language that feels intentional rather than assembled. There's no learning curve, if you've used NoScroll before, you'll know exactly where everything is from the first open.
Design
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In-App YouTube Shorts Blocking
YouTube Shorts don't just live in the YouTube app anymore, they surface inside third-party apps through embedded webviews. NoScroll 2.0 now catches and blocks them there too. If Shorts can find a way in, we find a way to block them.
Extended Coverage
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Action on Launch
Don't let YouTube's AI algorithm decide what you'll do when you open the YouTube app. Launch directly to Home, Library, or Search, bypassing the Shorts feed before it even loads. It's a small redirection that eliminates the biggest trigger point entirely.
Smart Redirect
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Optimized for Tablet & Landscape
NoScroll now feels at home on larger screens. Whether you're on a foldable, a tablet, or just prefer landscape mode, the UI adapts properly. Distraction doesn't care about your screen size, and now neither does the block.
Platform
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New App Blocking Modes
Two new modes for how NoScroll handles a blocked app launch. Close on Launch shuts the app immediately. Lock on Launch presents your PIN screen instead. Pick the level of friction that matches your level of distraction.
Block Controls
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Instagram Feed Blocking: Now Free
Feed blocking for Instagram was previously a premium-only feature. Not anymore. Every NoScroll user, on any plan, can now block the Instagram feed. Reels get your attention. The feed keeps it. Now both are blocked for everyone.
Free for All
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Website Blocker: URL-Level Control
The website blocker now supports blocking specific URL paths, not just entire domains. Block youtube.com/shorts while keeping the rest of YouTube open. Block individual features within a site. Surgical precision over blunt blocks.
Website Blocker
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AI Emoji World
We added a touch of delight: dynamic, AI-generated animated emojis and motivational quotes that shift throughout the app. It sounds small. But opening NoScroll to a moment of personality, rather than a cold list of settings, changes how you feel about the habit. It's focus, with a personality.
AI-Powered
The Why
Your Attention Is the Product. We're Here to Give It Back.
Short-form video is engineered by teams of hundreds, optimised by billions of data points, and refined over years, all to make the next 15 seconds impossible to resist. The scroll doesn't stop because you're weak. It stops when the system designed to keep you going finally meets a harder wall.
NoScroll is that wall. But for it to work, it has to be reliable, hard to bypass, and honest about your habits. Every feature in 2.0 was built with those three constraints in mind. The rebuilt engine handles reliability. The pause guardrails handle bypass. The Stats Dashboard handles honesty.
The rest (the UI, the new modes, the AI Emoji World) is about making a tool you actually want to use every day. Because the best blocker is one you don't disable.
The best version of NoScroll isn't one that restricts you. It's one that reminds you, every single day, what you actually want to spend your time on.
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Instagram Feed Blocking is now free for everyone
Previously locked behind Premium, full Instagram Feed Blocking is now available to all NoScroll users at no cost. Update to 2.0 and it's yours automatically. No action required.
By The Numbers
NoScroll in 2026
4.5★ on Google Play
30K+ reviews
20+ platforms blocked
1 mission
Every one of those 27,000+ reviews was read. The ones that said "it stops working after a few hours"? Fixed. The ones that said "I keep tapping pause to get around it"? Fixed. The ones that said "the UI feels dated"? Fixed. NoScroll 2.0 is the version built from your feedback.
Your Focus Upgrade Is Ready. 🚀
NoScroll 2.0 is live on the Play Store right now. Update, open the app, and let the new Stats Dashboard show you what your attention has been up to.