Effective 7 November 2026
ScrollCoach helps you notice and limit how many short videos you watch on Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and Snapchat. It is built so that your data stays on your phone. This policy explains exactly what the app does and does not do.
ScrollCoach has no account, no servers, no ads and no analytics.
The app does not even request Android's internet permission, so it cannot upload anything by itself.
Your counts, limits and settings are stored only on your device.
Nothing leaves your phone unless you choose to send us a report or feedback by email.
Android offers no other way for an app to count individual short videos. With your permission, ScrollCoach uses Android's Accessibility Service to:
Detect when you are in Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts or Snapchat's short-video feed.
Count each new video you swipe to.
Notice which app is in front, so the floating counter hides when you leave.
Show the full-screen pause card (for example when you reach your daily limit) and, if you choose "Close", return you to the home screen.
ScrollCoach only reads screen content inside Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat. For all other apps it only notices that you switched away. It does not read your messages, passwords, payment details or content from any other app, and it never stores the text of what you see.
You are shown this explanation and asked for consent before the permission is turned on, and you can turn it off at any time in Android's Accessibility settings.
Usage numbers: how many videos you watched per app, per day, and how long your sittings were. Older detail is summarised into daily totals.
Your settings: daily limits, quiet hours, break reminders and similar choices.
A small diagnostic history: one line per app event over the last 2 days (for example "entered Shorts", "video counted", "pause card shown"), capped at about 150 KB, plus details of the most recent crash if one happened. It contains no on-screen text.
A short in-memory screen log: while you are in Instagram, YouTube or Snapchat, the last 2 minutes of screen layout (button types, sizes and position), with all text replaced by its length, e.g. [text:12]. It is kept in memory only and cleared when the service stops.
Uninstalling ScrollCoach deletes all of this.
If you tap Send feedback in Settings, or Send report on a "Counting may have stopped" notification, ScrollCoach creates a text file and opens your email app addressed to scrollsense.feedback@gmail.com. You can read the file before sending, and nothing is sent unless you press Send. The file contains:
Phone model, Android version, ScrollCoach version and the installed versions of Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat.
Your ScrollCoach settings, today's counts and alerts, and the diagnostic history described above.
Phone settings that affect layout: font size, language, time zone and 12/24-hour clock.
The 2-minute screen layout log, with all text replaced by its length.
Reports are used only to fix problems and improve ScrollCoach. They are kept in that mailbox, never sold or shared, and you can ask us to delete your emails at any time.
Notifications (limit alerts and "counting may have stopped") and the home-screen widget are generated on your device from the data above. They send nothing anywhere.
ScrollCoach is not directed at children under 13.
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
Questions or deletion requests: scrollsense.feedback@gmail.com