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DetoxDroid

Use your phone rather than letting your phone use you.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
560GitHub stars
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Use your phone rather than letting your phone use you.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-11-22 08:12:16 UTC to 2025-07-20 23:22:01 UTC.

012021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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aygeaye·Jul 20, 2025Submission

Show HN: Auto-greyscale specific apps after time limit reached

I've always found Android's Digital Wellbeing controls too blunt. It's all-or-nothing (on purpose?): disable an entire app or greyscale the whole system. This is useless for apps like Reddit or Instagram where I still need to check DMs but want to kill the scrolling trap. Found an open-source app, DetoxDroid, that solves this. You can set time limits per-app, and it will then greyscale (or disable) only that specific app. It's exactly the granularity I was looking for. Not my project (I did make a PR today though), but thought others here might find it useful, and think it deserves some more attention! GitHub: https://github.com/flxapps/DetoxDroid Amazingly, it works without root, only requires the extra 'WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS' permission (for greyscale) and you can audit it, fork it and build your own version if you're security conscious
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