Holdfast blocks Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok's For You and Facebook Reels inside the apps. Your messages, your friends and the videos you go looking for stay exactly where they are.
Get it on Google PlayFor Android. Free to start. Pro's yearly plan begins with a 14-day free trial for new subscribers.
Most blockers lock you out of the whole app, so you delete it, miss your friends and reinstall it a few days later. Holdfast covers the part that keeps you scrolling and leaves the rest alone. It only blocks a whole app when you ask it to, at bedtime or on a schedule.
Most of the time you reach for the feed out of habit. Holdfast gives you a moment to notice, shows you the reason you wrote for yourself, and lets you decide. Nothing is deleted, reported or shared.
Android asks once, in its Accessibility settings. Setup shows you exactly where to tap.
Chats, profiles and search work the same as before.
A calm block screen covers it as soon as it opens, with your reason on it.
Tap Back to return to the rest of the app. If you really want to watch, unblock for 5 minutes after a short wait, and you land on the same video.
Free blocks the main feed of the one app that takes most of your time. Pro covers all four apps and every feed, and adds everything above plus your own photo on the block screen. Google Play shows the price in your currency before you subscribe, and you can cancel anytime in Google Play.
Holdfast has no permission to use the internet. Android enforces that, so it cannot send anything anywhere.
It is the only Android permission that can tell Reels apart from your messages inside the same app. Holdfast uses it for one job: noticing when a short-video feed opens, so it can show the block screen. You turn it on yourself and can turn it off at any time in Android's settings.
No. It looks at the layout of the screen, such as the names of tabs and whether a screen is a video feed. It never reads messages, photos, posts, passwords or anything you type. What it sees is used in the moment and is not saved or sent anywhere.
Holdfast has been tested with the four apps set to English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Indonesian, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Arabic.
Yes, always, in Android's Accessibility settings. Making blocking weaker inside Holdfast takes a little while on purpose, so one weak moment can't undo a good decision.
No. iPhone apps can only block whole apps, not one feed inside them, so Holdfast is for Android.
Holdfast is free to start. Pro is a yearly or monthly subscription, and the yearly plan begins with a 14-day free trial for new subscribers. Google Play shows the price in your own currency before you subscribe.
For Android phones, with Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Facebook.
Get it on Google Play