Keep Instagram.
Lose the scroll.

Nobody has ever watched one Reel.

The feeds are built with no end and no number. You open Instagram to answer a friend and surface forty minutes later with no idea how. That is not a weakness. It is the design.

Unreeled gives the feed a number. That is the whole trick, and it changes everything about how the next swipe feels.

Fifteen seconds is nothing. Forty of them is your evening.

You wanted the first one. The other thirty-nine were served. Every night the feed quietly takes the half hour you had set aside for a walk, a book, a call, or sleep.

Seeing 07 / 15 in the corner is the moment the feed stops deciding for you.

Deleting the app punishes the wrong thing.

Your group chats live in Instagram. So do your friends' posts, your work DMs, the thing you meant to share. Blockers and screen-time walls lock all of it behind a timer you will ignore by Thursday.

Unreeled stops only the scroll: Reels, Shorts, TikTok, Spotlight. Messages, profiles and posting stay open all day.

A budget, not a wall.

• The counter lives where you scroll.A small window over the feed, on every app, counting up while you watch, so the number is in front of you at the moment it matters.
• The one you're on gets to finish.When the limit lands mid-video, the video plays out and the feed closes on the next swipe instead of cutting you off.
• Rewatching is free.Scrolling back to one you already saw does not count. Only new scrolls do.
• Quiet hours.Close every feed at work or after 22:00, whatever is left of the day's limit.
• Changes land tomorrow.Tightening works now. Loosening waits a day, so the plan you made calm is the one that counts.
• Private by construction.There is no account and no server, so the count never leaves your phone.

On iPhone, honestly: Apple lets no app see inside Instagram. Unreeled hands you a Lite version of each feed instead, where the counter and the limit live, and keeps the real apps for messages and posting.