Limitations
and platform terms, honestly.
What Nescroll cannot do, and the risks that come with any app that wraps third-party websites. Read this before you buy, rebrand or publish.
01iOS cannot change native apps
No iOS app can remove Reels or Shorts from inside the official social apps. Nescroll offers two separate things instead: calm versions of the websites in its own tabs, and a Screen Time lock on the native apps. The onboarding says this to users.
02Third-party websites and their terms
The site tabs load websites owned by third parties and change how their pages look on the user's device. Their terms of service may restrict modified or unofficial clients, automated access or hiding ads. The author gives no assurance that the sites allow it, and nothing in this item grants you any right from them. Before you publish, read the current terms of each site you keep in AppConfig.platforms, and decide yourself whether to ship, with legal advice where needed. You can remove any site from the app.
The sites may also limit sign-in from embedded browsers, ask for extra security checks, or block access at any time.
03Sites change their markup
Filters depend on the sites' current HTML, addresses and texts. When a site changes them, a filter can stop hiding something, or (less likely) hide too much. Plan to check the filters regularly and fix them (Fix a filter), ideally with remote rules turned on. Filters can stop working at any time, so you should check each one on the live sites with a test account before every release.
04Other limits in version 1.0.0
- Slovak and Czech feed labels are unverified on a real device (Localization). English labels are the main set.
- Feed labels exist only for some languages (English, Slovak, Czech). In other site languages, the label-based filters (sponsored, suggested) do not match until you add that language's texts.
- The lock is a self-commitment. The user can end it in the app and can turn Screen Time access off in iOS Settings.
- Screen Time needs a real device and Apple's distribution approval (Screen Time).
- No notifications, local or push.
- No Android version, no web version, no macOS app.
- No in-app purchases, subscriptions or ads; if you want them, you add them.
- Statistics are approximate: items hidden by CSS selector are not counted.
- One account per site at a time, as in a browser.
- Remote rules add to the built-in filters; they cannot remove one.
05No promised results
Nescroll removes some feeds and can lock apps. It does not promise any change in how much time someone spends on social media, any health effect, or any number of downloads or sales for your app.