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How Stillfeed works

Stillfeed is an in-app browser for iPhone, and a free extension for Chrome and Firefox. Each opens a platform’s real website and hides its endless feeds on your device before they render.

Download on the App StoreFree. No sign-up, no trial.

On iPhone

The app is a separate browser. It loads instagram.com, youtube.com and the other sites directly and hides certain pages before they render.

1Open it in Stillfeed

Each one opens as its real website inside Stillfeed, signed in to your own account.

2The endless part is gone

Reels, Shorts and the other endless feeds are removed before they load.

Messages
Profiles
Search
Posts from people you follow

3Everything else stays

Messages, profiles, search and posts from people you follow stay.

In Chrome and Firefox

The free browser extension does the same on a computer. It hides Reels, Shorts and endless feeds on the same eight sites, with a daily limit, a session timer, quiet hours, a pause before opening and grayscale.

There is no account, and nothing leaves the browser. The details are in the extension privacy section.

Stillfeed
Hide Shorts
Daily limit45 min
Quiet hours
Grayscale
Show the page

What changes and what stays, platform by platform

The rules for each platform follow the live websites and are described in full on the platform pages.

What changes

  • Opens on your Following feed, in chronological order.
  • The Reels tab is removed and Reels pages are blocked.
  • The Explore feed is blocked, while search keeps working.

What stays

  • Messages
  • Stories
  • Profiles and posts from people you follow
  • Search

What changes

  • The Shorts tab is removed from the bottom bar.
  • Shorts shelves are removed from the home feed and elsewhere.
  • Individual Shorts are hidden in lists such as search results.
  • Shorts links stop opening, so a shared Short can’t start the swipe.

What stays

  • Search
  • Your subscriptions
  • Regular videos
  • Your account

What changes

  • Your home timeline stays on Following instead of For You.
  • The Trends page is blocked.
  • Trending topics, event banners and “who to follow” suggestions are hidden on Explore.

What stays

  • Messages
  • Search

What changes

  • r/popular is blocked.
  • r/all is blocked.
  • Your home feed opens sorted by New, so you see posts from communities you joined in the order they were posted.

What stays

  • The communities you joined
  • Your home feed

What changes

  • The For You feed is removed.
  • TikTok opens to Following.

What stays

  • Friends
  • Messages
  • Search

What changes

  • Spotlight and Discover are blocked.
  • Lenses and public Stories are blocked, so Snapchat becomes chat only.

What stays

  • Chat

What changes

  • People You May Know suggestions are removed.
  • Games are removed.

What stays

  • Your feed
  • Jobs
  • Messages

What changes

  • A free Block Reels switch, on by default, hides Reels.

What stays

  • Your feed: Facebook’s other feed surfaces are not changed yet.

What is free and what is Pro

  • Free from first launch, on every platform: removing the feeds described above, with no account and no trial.
  • Stillfeed Pro (optional), on every platform including Facebook: time and focus tools: a daily time limit, a session timer, quiet hours, a pause before opening, grayscale, a streak widget and Detox Mode.
  • Stillfeed Pro, on some platforms: hiding sponsored posts (Instagram, X, Reddit), hiding likes and counts (Instagram, YouTube, X), word filters (X, Reddit, YouTube), a media filter (X, Reddit), hiding comments (YouTube, Reddit), hiding notifications inside Stillfeed (Instagram, X), a YouTube focus mode, Hide Stories and Block Feed (Instagram), Block DMs and DMs only (Instagram, X), and Block Explore and Hide Grok (X). On Facebook these show “Not available yet”.

Prices are shown in the App Store.

What Stillfeed does not do

  • It does not change the native apps. Stillfeed is a separate browser, so the Instagram, YouTube and other apps are unchanged and still show their feeds. Your account, followers and posts stay exactly as they were.
  • On Facebook it only hides Reels. The Block Reels switch is on by default, and the rest of the Facebook feed is left as Facebook shows it.
  • It does not block whole apps. It is not a Screen Time app. It removes specific feeds and keeps messages, profiles, search and posts from people you follow. Stillfeed compared with Screen Time.
  • It is the website, not the app. Each platform’s mobile website can look and behave a little differently from its app, and a platform may ask you to confirm a login when you sign in inside Stillfeed.
  • It is iPhone only for the app. There is no Android version at the moment. On a computer, use the extension.

More answers are on the Stillfeed FAQ, and each platform has its own page under platforms. The privacy policy is the authoritative text on what Stillfeed collects.

Keep the app. Lose the endless feed.

Stillfeed removes Reels, Shorts and Explore from Instagram and YouTube, free from your first launch. No setup, no sign-up.

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