Quiet: Stop Doomscrolling

Quiet shows Instagram's mobile site with the endless surfaces taken out. Your feed, your stories, your messages and your profile load the way you know them. Reels and Explore are not there. The posts Instagram suggests between your friends are — and one switch takes them out, which also gives the feed an end to reach. You sign in on Instagram's own page, so your password never touches Quiet. Then there is a limit. You choose how many minutes a day you want. While you are reading, that time runs down — only while the app is in front of you, only while the page is actually on screen. Two quiet notices, at five minutes and at one. When the time is gone, the app closes for the day and says so. You can lower your limit whenever you like, and it takes effect at once. You can raise it once a week, and the new number starts the next day — never in the moment you want five more minutes. That…