Every great product starts with a personal frustration. Here is how NoScroll went from one developer's coping mechanism to the most downloaded shorts and reels blocker on the internet.
Before NoScroll, all productivity apps were focused on one thing: blocking. Some focused on technical blocking, some on psychology, and some on both. But no app was actually working on the root cause of the problem.
Apps are not the problem. The problem is the content they serve.
A note from Pritam Pawade (Founder):
I was so addicted to reels that I was watching shorts even during a 2-second wait for a webpage to load, or for something that takes a short moment. And then I'd waste 15 to 30 minutes scrolling. Every time I snapped out of it, I felt like a zombie who lost focus, context, and the ability to concentrate again.
After watching reels, I wasn't just wasting time. I was feeling stressed, exhausted, and facing genuine difficulty focusing on my work. Literally wasting hours without knowing what was happening to me.
I needed a tool that understood how my attention was being hijacked. I didn't want to block Instagram entirely and miss messages from my friends; I just needed the endless feed of Reels to disappear. When I realized no app could do this, I started building what would eventually become NoScroll.
By the time I had a working version to break my own habits, independent university studies started confirming what I was feeling: short-form content loops fry dopamine receptors, reduce attention span, and induce long-term brain fog. I knew I couldn't keep the solution to myself.
NoScroll was never a product to be sold for profit. It was, and still is, a solution to a genuine problem every smartphone user is facing.
Curizic leads the way while competitors can only copy our innovations. Our vision is original, focused on problem-solving rather than copying someone and providing blocker features.
NoScroll uses Accessibility Service, a powerful Android permission that could easily be used to collect data. But from day one, a conscious and irreversible decision was made: NoScroll will remain a privacy-first app. Period.
Developing and maintaining any app is not easy, and definitely not cheap, especially when you do it for a living. Here is the unfiltered truth about how NoScroll sustains itself while keeping your privacy intact.
Other apps copied NoScroll a lot, and they still do. NoScroll is now a benchmark for every productivity app out there. We feel proud: 1.5 years of research didn't go to waste. Users are now experiencing true productivity apps that actually help them stay productive.
No matter what app you use, Curizic feel proud that our ideas and research are helping you, whether through NoScroll or other apps.
Join hundreds of thousands of users who have already taken back control of their attention with NoScroll — the original shorts and reels blocker.