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Digital wellbeing

Social networks, minus what keeps you scrolling

Slowcial opens the networks you already use and strips the mechanics built to hold you: short-video feeds, recommendation tabs, discovery pages, sponsored posts. Your messages and the people you follow don't move.

iPhoneOne network freeNo account

It doesn't block anything. Blocking isn't realistic — you'd lose your messages along with the reels, and you'd reinstall within three days. Slowcial removes, surgically, and leaves the rest of the network intact.

What it removes

  • Short-video feeds that autoplay endlessly
  • Algorithmic recommendations and “for you” tabs
  • Explore and discovery pages
  • Sponsored posts in the feed

What you keep

  • Your messages and conversations
  • The accounts you chose to follow
  • Profiles you decide to visit
  • Posting, replying, searching

Three steps, one minute

1

Pick a network

Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit or X. One is free, for as long as you like.

2

Sign in as usual

Directly on the network, in a web view. Slowcial never sees your credentials — it has no server to send them to.

3

Scroll what's left

Which is the part you came for. Set each filter on or off, network by network.

What it looks like

Your networks, and the time they take
Your networks, and the time they take
Filters you set one by one
Filters you set one by one
Night mode closes Slowcial, not your phone
Night mode closes Slowcial, not your phone
What you actually spend, measured on the device
What you actually spend, measured on the device
A sound to fall asleep to, with a timer
A sound to fall asleep to, with a timer

Privacy, plainly

There is no account and no backend. Your settings, your screen time and the pages you open stay on the device. What does leave: an anonymous crash report you can switch off, subscription validation, and advertising attribution — none of which contains what you browse.

Price

One filtered network is free, with night mode and statistics included. Premium unlocks every network and every filter at €34.99 a year (€2.92 a month) or €4.99 a month. No ads, ever — the app is funded by the people who use it.

Guides

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Take your time back.

One filtered network, free. No account to create, no ads, and nothing that leaves your phone.

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