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Sociano
App removing Reels and addictive content from social media
Sociano is different from normal blockers because it doesn’t just block social media completely. It removes the addictive parts — Reels, Shorts, Explore, feeds, For You pages, Spotlight/Discover — while keeping useful parts like DMs, posting, search, and content friends send you. It also has optional iPhone app blocking with Apple Screen Time APIs, so you can control both the browser experience and native apps.
I built Sociano because I had a weird problem: I wanted to stop scrolling, but I didn’t want to delete social media completely.
I still needed Instagram DMs, content friends sent me, posting, search, and some useful parts of the apps. But once I opened Instagram, I usually ended up in Reels.
Most blockers felt too extreme: either block the whole app, or allow the whole app and hope I don’t scroll.
So I built Sociano around a different idea: keep the useful parts, remove the loop.
It opens social platforms in a controlled browser where you can remove things like Reels, Shorts, Explore, feeds, For You pages, Spotlight/Discover, etc. There’s also optional native iPhone app blocking using Apple Screen Time APIs.
I’m an 18-year-old student and this is my first paid iOS app, so I’d genuinely love feedback from people who’ve struggled with the same problem.
About Sociano on Product Hunt
“App removing Reels and addictive content from social media”
Sociano was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #99 on the daily leaderboard. Sociano is different from normal blockers because it doesn’t just block social media completely. It removes the addictive parts — Reels, Shorts, Explore, feeds, For You pages, Spotlight/Discover — while keeping useful parts like DMs, posting, search, and content friends send you. It also has optional iPhone app blocking with Apple Screen Time APIs, so you can control both the browser experience and native apps.
On the analytics side, Sociano competes within Productivity, Social Media and Ad Blockers — topics that collectively have 745.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Sociano performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Sociano?
Sociano was hunted by Jan Macura. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Sociano including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Jan Macura