ScrollGate

Keeps Instagram messages and the YouTube videos you choose. Removes the feeds built to keep you scrolling.

ScrollGate keeps the useful parts of YouTube and Instagram and removes the feeds built to keep you scrolling. INSTAGRAM • Messages always work, with no pauses or limits • Opening Instagram takes you to your messages instead of the home feed • The Reels feed and Explore are blocked • A post or reel someone sends you still opens YOUTUBE • Search, subscriptions, channels and the video you picked all work • Shorts disappear from every page, and a Shorts link plays as a normal video, so there's nothing to swipe through • Recommendations are hidden on the home page, beside videos and after they end • Autoplay stays off • A daily watch-time limit (90 minutes by default) with a small "minutes left" counter • Optional: hide comments TIKTOK • Blocked completely (can be turned off) PAUSE ON OPENING A short wait and a question the first time you open YouTube in a tab: was that a decision, or a reflex? Optional for Instagram, and never shown when you go straight to your messages. SETTINGS LOCK Stricter settings apply at once. Looser ones, including turning the lock off, wait 24 hours, so you can't undo your limits in a weak moment. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your computer. ScrollGate has no account, no servers and no analytics, and it only runs on youtube.com, instagram.com and tiktok.com. ScrollGate is not affiliated with YouTube, Instagram or TikTok.