Resources
Turn scrolling into progress
Everything Sorry Scroll has published about turning scrolling into progress: how the app works, the goals, honest comparisons with other app blockers, guides, a calculator and free word lists in six languages.
Start here
- The app blocker that makes you do something useful before you scrollWhat Sorry Scroll is, how a step unlocks an app, the goals, and who it's not for.
- Turn your scrolling addiction into learning (and a stronger body)What 25 opens a day add up to, and why paying a small step works when quitting doesn't.
- PricingThe free plan, Pro, India prices, and how similar apps compare.
- How Sorry Scroll worksThe shield, what a step is card by card, skips, unlock length, iPhone vs Android, privacy.
- What is Sorry Scroll?Who makes it, why it exists, how it makes money, and what it's careful about.
Goals
- The app that makes you learn a language before you open InstagramSix languages, meanings in seven, the first words, and when words come back for review.
- The app that makes you move before you scrollAll seven moves exactly as the app explains them, and why this goal exists.
- Learn Japanese instead of scrolling InstagramDay one's 12 words, the rest of week one, the first tips, and how fast you'd get through 500.
- Learn Korean instead of scrolling InstagramDay one's 12 words, the rest of week one, the first tips, and how fast you'd get through 500.
- Learn Spanish instead of scrolling InstagramDay one's 12 words, the rest of week one, the first tips, and how fast you'd get through 500.
- Learn French instead of scrolling InstagramDay one's 12 words, the rest of week one, the first tips, and how fast you'd get through 500.
- Learn German instead of scrolling InstagramDay one's 12 words, the rest of week one, the first tips, and how fast you'd get through 500.
- Learn English instead of scrolling Instagram (for Hindi speakers)Day one's 12 words, the rest of week one, the first tips, and how fast you'd get through 500.
Compare
- App blockers that make you do something before opening apps (2026)Thirteen apps side by side: what unlocks them, free plans, prices, camera, platforms, ratings.
- one sec alternatives: free, Android and iPhoneScreenZen, ClearSpace, Opal, Brick and the do-something-first apps, plus what one sec's study actually found.
- Apps that make you pause before opening InstagramWait, breathe, learn, work out or explain yourself first, and what each one does to your messages.
- Apps that make you do pushups before Instagram, comparedSix apps: camera or not, what a workout earns, free plans, prices, platforms.
- Language-learning app blockers comparedSorry Scroll, LangLocker, LLLock, LearnPass and PollyStop: languages, what unlocks, free plans, prices.
- Duolingo alternatives that block social mediaWhat Duolingo does and doesn't do, and the apps that lock Instagram until you practise.
- Apps to replace scrolling with learningHeadway, Nibble, Imprint, Yuno, NerdSip and Duolingo, versus apps that sit in front of the scroll.
Stop scrolling
- Is there an app to stop doomscrolling?Five kinds of app, side by side, and what three studies say.
- How to block Instagram Reels but keep your messagesAndroid can; iPhone can't. Every option, with sources.
- How to block or limit YouTube ShortsYouTube's own Shorts limit, Android apps that block Shorts only, and iPhone.
Learn a language
- How to replace doomscrolling with learningFive rules from memory research, and what day one looks like.
- How to learn a language while scrollingWhy vocabulary fits a 30-second step, and a simple plan.
- How many new words should you learn a day?The review maths, and why 12.
- How to memorize vocabulary fastTesting, spacing, and two words at a time.
- Can you learn a language in 5 minutes a day?What 2, 5, 10 and 15 minutes a day buy.
- How many words could your scrolling buy you?A calculator: pick a language and how often you open your apps.
Move more
- Exercise snacks: 30-second moves you can do at your deskSeven moves step by step, and what the research says (carefully).
- Box breathing in 32 secondsHow to do it, and what a 28-day trial found.
Word lists
- The 500 most common Japanese words500 words with meanings, example sentences and audio.
- The 500 most common Korean words500 words with meanings, example sentences and audio.
- The 500 most common Spanish words500 words with meanings, example sentences and audio.
- The 500 most common French words500 words with meanings, example sentences and audio.
- The 500 most common German words500 words with meanings, example sentences and audio.
- 500 daily use English words with Hindi meaning500 words with meanings, example sentences and audio.