For Android · Free · No account
How many reels did you really watch today?
ReelCount counts every reel and short you scroll, live, on top of the app you’re in. Watch too many and Rotly, the little jelly who lives in the counter, starts to melt.
The counter sits on top of the app and goes up with every new reel.
Scroll back to one you’ve seen? It isn’t counted twice.
One reel turns into fifty.
Screen time tells you that you spent two hours in an app. It doesn’t tell you that you watched a hundred and forty separate videos, because nobody has ever shown you that number. You can’t break a habit you can’t see.
2 h 10 m
A length of time. Easy to shrug off.
143 reels
One for every video you swiped to. Much harder to ignore.
Example figures, for illustration.
Three steps, then it just counts.
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Turn on counting
Android calls the permission Accessibility. ReelCount uses it to notice when a new reel appears in a short-video app, and for nothing else. The app shows you exactly what it does before you switch it on.
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Scroll like you always do
A small counter with Rotly sits at the top of the app and goes up by one for every new reel. Drag it out of the way if it’s covering something. Scroll back to a reel you’ve already seen and it isn’t counted again.
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Pick a daily limit
Rotly stays fresh while you’re under it, and starts to melt when you’re not. A hundred a day is where most people start. Change it whenever you like.
Scroll too much and Rotly melts.
Stay under your limit to keep Rotly fresh.
Rotly lives in the counter. He starts every day bright and bouncy, and how he looks tonight is simply how much you’ve watched. Drag the slider to live through a day of scrolling.
With the default limit of 100. The stages move with whatever limit you set.
Good evening
Friday 13 November
Streak: 3
87
of 100
13 reels left before your limit
“Help, I’m melting!”
Crown
He recovers, too.
Watching something rot is a good way to notice a habit, and a poor way to change one. Stay under your limit and Rotly is fresh again the next morning. String a few good days together and he starts earning things.
Sunglasses
3 days in a row
Crown
7 days in a row
Holiday kit
14 days in a row
Golden glow
30 days in a row
Rewards belong to your current streak. Break it and they go back in the box until you earn them again. Rotly only wears them while he’s fresh, because a crown on a puddle would undercut the whole idea.
Set a limit that sticks.
Block reels when you reach it, with strict mode if you need it.
When you hit your limit, ReelCount covers the reel player. The rest of the app keeps working, so you can still message people, post and search. Only the endless feed stops.
Block reels at my limit
Covers the reel player once you reach your limit. The rest of the app keeps working.
Strict mode
Removes the five-minute button, so there’s no talking yourself past the limit.
Blocking is off until you turn it on. Plenty of people only need to see the number.
At your limit the reel player is covered. You can still take five more minutes.
669Total
45Best daySee your week at a glance.
Streaks, trends and your best days.
- A streak worth keeping
Every day under your limit adds one. Go over and it starts again from zero.
Seven days against your limitEach day’s total beside the line you set, so a bad day looks like one. Raising your limit later never rewrites a day you’d already gone over.
Where it wentYour count split by app, so you know which feed is doing the damage.
- A home screen widget
Today’s count and Rotly, visible before you’ve opened anything at all.
Battle your friends.
Fewest reels wins. Resets every midnight.
Add a friend and compare today’s counts. Whoever scrolled least is winning, and tomorrow everyone starts again from zero.
Battles need an account to connect friends, and that part isn’t switched on yet. The Battle tab is already in the app. When invites arrive, only the name you choose and your daily number will be shared, never what anyone watched. This page and the privacy policy will say so before it happens.
Made for the feeds you actually scroll.
ReelCount reads how each app lays out its short-video player, so every app is taught separately. We don’t claim a count for an app until we’ve scrolled a real feed in it and checked the number.
Each one checked by scrolling a real feed and comparing the number on screen with the number counted.
ReelCount already watches these, but counts here may be off until each one is confirmed. When it is, it moves across.
ReelCount isn’t made by, endorsed by or affiliated with any of these apps. Their names belong to their owners.
The counting never leaves your phone.
Counting a reel inside another app needs Android’s Accessibility permission. It’s a powerful permission, so here is exactly what ReelCount does with it.
- Notices when a new reel or short appears in the apps listed above, and adds one to your count.
- Reads just enough on-screen text to tell one clip from the next, and turns it straight into a fingerprint that can’t be turned back into words.
- Keeps your counts, limit and streak on your phone.
- Reads your messages, your passwords or anything you type.
- Keeps any text from a video, or anything about what it shows.
- Takes screenshots or records your screen.
- Sends anything off your phone.
No sign-up, no email, no profile. Open it and it counts.
This version of ReelCount doesn’t ask Android for internet access at all, so it has no way to send your data anywhere.
Clear today’s count or delete every day you’ve counted, from Settings, whenever you like.
Light on your phone.
Short answer: almost nothing. Here is the honest version rather than a promise.
- Only while you scroll
Counting runs while one of these apps is open. The rest of the day it does nothing at all.
- Off with the screen
It stops completely the moment your screen goes off.
Measured on a Samsung Galaxy M51, scrolling a real feed.
What people ask first.
Why does ReelCount need the Accessibility permission?
Because it’s the only way Android lets one app notice that a new short video has appeared inside another. ReelCount is told about the short-video apps it counts and nothing else on your phone.
The app explains exactly what it does before you switch it on, and you can switch it off any time in Android settings. Counting stops straight away when you do. The full detail is in the privacy policy.
Is the count exact?
It’s close, and when it’s unsure it leaves a reel out rather than inventing one. A reel counts once it has actually settled on screen, so flicking straight past one doesn’t, and scrolling back to a reel you’ve already seen doesn’t count it twice.
Counting depends on how each app lays out its player, and apps change that without warning. If one does, counting in that app can stop until we ship a fix. The app tells you when that happens rather than showing a number that has quietly stopped moving.
Is there an iPhone version?
Not at the moment. iOS doesn’t let one app see what’s on screen in another, which a live count like this depends on. ReelCount is Android only.
What happens when I reach my limit?
Rotly starts to melt, and that’s all, unless you turn on blocking. With blocking on, the reel player is covered for the rest of the day while the rest of the app keeps working. There’s a button for five more minutes, and strict mode removes it.
Does it cost anything?
ReelCount is free to download, and counting, Rotly, streaks, stats and the widget are free. There’s no account to make.
Count every reel you scroll.
Live, on top of the apps you already use.
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