# Decafly: Block Apps & Shorts — Stop doomscrolling, skip Reels

> Stop doomscrolling, skip Reels (iPhone/iPad app by Nam Tran Ngoc.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/decafly-block-apps-and-shorts/id6814401381 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Nam Tran Ngoc](https://appshunter.io/developer/1691394089)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 27 MB
- Languages: American English, Vietnamese
- Released: 2026-09-24
- Data updated: 2026-10-18

## What is Decafly?

Decafly puts a wall in front of the apps that pull you in, and gives you a quieter way to use Instagram and YouTube when you still need them.

TWO HALVES

1. A blocker for any app. Pick the apps you open without thinking. Every launch meets a block screen first, so opening one becomes a decision instead of a reflex.

2. A clean version of Instagram and YouTube. Decafly opens their official mobile websites inside this app, with Reels, Explore and Shorts hidden. Messages, Stories, profiles, search and long videos stay.

To be exact about the second half: Decafly blocks the Instagram app, and separately offers a version of Instagram without Reels, inside this app. It does not reach into the apps on your Home Screen. No iPhone app can.

THE BLOCKER

• Block any app or category, using Apple's Screen Time. There is no list of supported apps.
• Wait to open: tap once, wait the seconds you chose, tap again. The wait grows a little with each open you have already taken today.
• Opens per day and minutes per open — five opens of five minutes by default. When an open runs out, the app locks itself again on its own.
• Schedules: mornings, work hours, before bed or your own times, on the weekdays you pick.
• Block now: hold everything for thirty minutes, an hour, or as long as you set.
• A PIN that guards the way out, not the door. Looking at your settings never asks for it. Only a change that weakens your limits does.
• Honest numbers: block screens you answered and opens used, today and over seven days. No score, no streak, no "hours saved".

THE CLEAN VERSION

• Instagram without the Reels tab, the Explore grid or suggested posts.
• YouTube without the Shorts tab and the Shorts shelf. A Shorts link opens as an ordinary video.
• Messages, Stories, profiles, search, notifications and long videos are left alone.
• You sign in on Instagram's or YouTube's own pages. Your password goes to them. Decafly does not read what you type.
• Every removal has its own switch, so you decide what the clean version takes away.

DECAFLY PRO (OPTIONAL)

• Strict mode: loosening a limit has to wait, so a weak moment passes first.
• Insights: a review of every week and twelve weeks of the block screens you answered.
• Up to six schedules instead of two.
• Rest days with a looser pace, set ahead of time.
• Block screen colours: Ember, Moss and Graphite.

Decafly Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, yearly with a 7-day free trial or monthly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm, or when the free trial ends. It renews automatically unless you turn it off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions.

WHAT DECAFLY CANNOT SEE

Decafly cannot see your screen, it cannot see your messages, and it cannot see the names of the apps you block. iOS never hands an app that information, and Decafly asks for no permission that would.

WHAT IT IS NOT

• No account, no sign-in, no email address.
• No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifier.
• Blocking apps and the clean version are free, with no limit on how many apps you block.
• It does not change, automate or unlock anything inside the Instagram or YouTube apps.
• It is not treatment, and it does not diagnose anything.

GOOD TO KNOW BEFORE YOU INSTALL

• Decafly needs Screen Time access. iOS asks for it on a screen of its own, and you can take it back at any time in Settings.
• Blocking covers the apps you choose, on this iPhone. There is no account, so nothing follows you to another device.

Support: https://decafly.com/support/
Email: feedback@decafly.com

Decafly is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Meta, Instagram, Google or YouTube. Those names are used only to say which apps this app blocks and which websites its clean version opens.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://decafly.com/privacy/ios/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Decafly Pro (yearly) | $49.99 | per year |
| Decafly Pro (monthly) | $8.99 | per month |


## Is Decafly safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Decafly.

## Is Decafly legit?

Decafly: Block Apps & Shorts appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Decafly is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-10-12

A new Pro screen that shows what a limit feels like: a few opens, then back to life. Tell us what to make better in a few taps, right from Settings, or from the quick check-in on Today. The clean version and app blocking stay free.

### 1.2 — 2026-10-05

Decafly now speaks Vietnamese, and you can choose its language in Settings. Pro can now be bought once, as a lifetime purchase. Strict mode forgives a slip: you have five minutes to change your mind after switching it on, and when a wait is over you have an hour to come back and loosen. Notices are quieter: none sound at night, and the one-minute warning before an open ends can be turned off.

### 1.1 — 2026-10-02

Decafly 1.1 brings the blocker up to date. Blocking apps and the clean version stay free.

NEW FOR EVERYONE
• Named schedules with custom times to the minute. Before you save, Decafly says when the schedule first blocks.
• The block screen can show a line you wrote yourself ("Why I block" in Settings), or a short question.
• The wait breathes with you, and can ask what the open is for. Your answer stays on this iPhone.
• Today has a "Last 7 days" card. Tap it for Insights and this week's numbers.
• An optional weekly summary on Sunday evening. It is off until you turn it on.
• A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget with your reason to block and the opens you have left today.
• "Block now" in Control Center on iOS 18 and later.
• "Block again" on the notification that says an open is about to end.
• "Turn blocking on" right on Today when blocking is off.

DECAFLY PRO, OPTIONAL
• Strict mode: nothing loosens without the way out you chose, app deletion is blocked while it is on, and the block screen says it is on.
• Cooldown between opens: after an open ends, that app waits 5 minutes to an hour before it can open again.
• Lock Screen timer: Block now counts down on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• Focus automations: start Block now from Shortcuts or when a Focus like Sleep turns on.
• Insights: a review of every week and twelve weeks of the block screens you answered.
• Schedules for each app: choose the apps each schedule blocks, and keep up to six instead of two.
• Rest days with a looser pace, set ahead of time.
• Block screen colours: Ember, Moss and Graphite.
Decafly Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, yearly with a 7-day free trial or monthly. Limits for a single app stay free.

CHANGED
• The third pace is now called Firm.
• Numbers count the block screens you answered with a button. iOS does not tell Decafly about a block screen you only looked at.
• After two wrong PIN tries, each next try waits a little longer.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-24

No release notes.

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