How Scroll Hush works
Last updated: October 5, 2026
Scroll Hush adds a short decision before you open a monitored social app. You choose why you are opening it, how long you intend to stay, and the limits you want to use. The reports then help you compare those choices with your recorded usage.
You can still use social media. Scroll Hush gives you a way to pause, make a choice, and see your own patterns over time. It does not promise a particular change in your behavior.
1. Choose the apps to monitor
During setup, select the supported apps you want Scroll Hush to monitor. You can change this selection later in Settings.
The selected apps are used for monitored-app reports, limits, launch protection, and Quiet Time. Choosing an app does not give Scroll Hush access to your account, posts, or messages inside it.
2. Allow the Android access needed for each feature
Usage Access lets Scroll Hush measure usage using information supplied by Android. Without it, reports and usage-based limits may be unavailable or incomplete.
Accessibility lets Launch Protection detect when a supported monitored app becomes active. The service checks the app's identity; it does not retrieve the content of the screen or read what you type.
Display over other apps supports session-awareness overlays and boundary notices. Notifications support Scroll Hush's own notices and service status. Battery restrictions can affect whether these features remain active in the background.
You decide whether to grant access and can revoke it in Android Settings. A feature may stop working when the access it needs is removed.
3. Set your limits
You can use shared limits or individual limits for monitored apps. Depending on your configuration, these include daily time, maximum session duration, sessions per day, minimum breaks, Quiet Hours, and grace periods.
Your maximum session limit and planned session time serve different purposes. The maximum is a boundary you configured. The planned time is how long you intend to spend on one visit.
For example, your maximum session may be 20 minutes while your planned time for replying to a message is 5 minutes.
4. Launch Protection brings you to the opening flow
When Launch Protection is enabled and detects a monitored app without an active Scroll Hush permit, it brings you to the intentional opening flow.
After you complete that flow, Scroll Hush gives the selected app a temporary permit and launches it. A permit is an internal allowance for the opening flow; it is not permission to access your social-media account.
Detection depends on Android and the required access remaining available. The app cannot guarantee that every opening will be intercepted on every device.
5. Take the opening pause
The opening flow includes a short pause before continuing. Its duration follows your settings.
This creates a moment to decide whether you still want to open the app. You can continue with your original choice or use one of the alternatives inside Scroll Hush.
6. Choose your reason
The current version offers these reasons:
- Reply to someone
- Post something
- Check something specific
- Entertainment
- No specific reason.
The selected reason is saved with the intentional session. It is used to show patterns such as the percentage of openings associated with each reason and the recorded duration of those sessions.
There is no right answer to select. Scroll Hush does not inspect the app content to check whether your answer was correct.
7. Choose your planned time
Before continuing, choose how long you intend to stay. Scroll Hush can compare the planned time with the recorded session duration and show whether the session finished within that time.
These comparisons describe recorded usage. A longer session does not tell Scroll Hush whether you became distracted, completed a task, or changed your mind.
8. Use the social app normally
After the opening flow, the social app opens normally. Its feed, messages, accounts, and other features remain inside that app.
Scroll Hush measures usage through Android events and its own session state. It does not copy your feed or read your conversations.
9. Session awareness and boundaries
Depending on your selected mode and permissions, Scroll Hush can show session-awareness information and notices while you use a monitored app.
It compares recorded usage with the limits you configured. Soft and stricter enforcement settings determine the response available when a boundary is reached.
These are self-management controls. They depend on Android's background behavior, permission state, battery restrictions, and device configuration. They are not guaranteed access restrictions.
10. Grace periods
A grace period, when available under your settings, provides a deliberate extension. Scroll Hush records relevant grace-period events so reports can distinguish sessions that used extra time.
Availability depends on the active rule and configuration. Selecting a grace period does not permanently remove your other limits.
11. Quiet Hours and minimum breaks
Quiet Hours define periods when your configured restrictions apply. Minimum breaks define the time you want between relevant sessions.
These controls give you boundaries you selected. They do not determine when you should work, sleep, or communicate with another person.
12. Quiet Time and progression
Quiet Time represents time away from the monitored apps. It does not mean that your phone is unused or that you are away from every screen.
The progression system uses quiet intervals, point adjustments, earning-rate changes, and Orbit unlocks. Opening a monitored app interrupts the quiet streak and resets the earning rate according to the progression rules. Previously unlocked progress is maintained, while configured usage deductions can affect the point balance.
Points and Orbits are app rewards. They have no cash value and are not a clinical measure of attention, dependence, or wellbeing.
13. Read, Meditate, and Stretch
Scroll Hush offers three immediate alternatives: Read, Meditate, and Stretch.
Read includes a built-in reader that remembers local progress. Meditate offers guided sessions and uses recent sequence information to reduce repetition. Stretch offers general movement activities for the selected duration.
These options give you something else to do when you decide not to continue into a monitored app. Meditation and stretching are general wellness activities, not individualized healthcare.
14. Reports
Reports combine available usage and session records. Depending on the history and configuration, they can show total time, session counts, average duration, usage by app or hour, quiet intervals, planned versus actual duration, opening reasons, and grace-period use.
Reports depend on the information available from Android and Scroll Hush's local records. Missing access, background interruptions, or device behavior can create gaps or delayed results.
Scroll Hush shows usage patterns. It cannot infer what content you consumed, how you felt, whether a particular session was useful, or whether a medical condition is present.
15. Privacy and local controls
The current Android app processes its usage information on your device and does not automatically upload it to Scroll Hush.
The export feature currently shares supported preferences and metrics; it is not a complete backup. The in-app deletion control currently clears the main monitoring records and settings but leaves some separately stored progress and activity state.
For complete removal of private app records, use Android's Clear storage or Clear data control, or uninstall the app. Revoke special access if you do not want Scroll Hush to access Android usage information again. The Privacy Policy explains these controls in detail.