ScrollCount

Privacy, in plain words

Last updated 17 October 2026

The short version

Scroller counts how many short videos you swipe through, per app, per day. That number and your chosen name are what your friends see. Nothing you watch, type or read is ever collected. No ads. Your data is never sold or shared for marketing.

What the app does on your phone

The app uses Android's Accessibility service only to notice when you swipe to the next video in Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Facebook Reels and Snapchat Spotlight. To do that it looks at how those apps' screens are laid out (for example, "the video pager moved to the next item"), and all of it happens on your phone. It never reads, records or sends the content: no video titles, captions, accounts, comments, messages or screenshots. Every other app is ignored.

What the server stores

• Your display name and friend code.
• Daily totals per app: how many videos and how many seconds, for each day (your local date). No per-video or per-hour data.
• A tracking-on flag and the last time your phone synced, so friends can see whether you're actually being counted.
• Your friend list (who you've added, and who added you).
• Scrambled (hashed) versions of your sign-in token and recovery code. The originals only exist on your phone and wherever you saved your recovery code.
• Only if you add a sign-in: your email address and a scrambled (hashed) password, or for Google sign-in, Google's account ID for you plus your Google email if Google says it's verified. Codes we email you are stored only in scrambled form and expire after 15 minutes.

Signing in is optional. Without it there's no email at all, and either way there's no phone number, real name, location, contacts or advertising ID. Emails are only used to send you sign-in and password-reset codes, never newsletters. To stop spam sign-ups the server keeps a scrambled version of your IP address for at most three hours. Wrong-password attempts are counted against a scrambled version of the email for up to two hours, to slow down guessing. Server logs record only the type of request, whether it worked and how long it took, never its contents.

Crash reports

If the app crashes it sends a crash report: the app version, Android version, phone model, the technical error trace and when it happened, linked to your account if you're signed in. Anything that looks like an email address, token or code is stripped out before it's saved. Crash reports are deleted automatically after 90 days, and immediately if you delete your account.

Who can see it

Only people you're friends with in the app can see your name, your totals for the period they're viewing and whether your tracking is on. Strangers can't look you up. The app runs on Cloudflare's servers, which process network traffic to deliver it.

Deleting your data

In the app go to Settings → Delete account. No phone? Use the web deletion page with your recovery code or your email and password. Either way your account, all your daily totals, all your friendships, any sign-in details and your crash reports are deleted immediately and permanently. Encrypted database backups that Cloudflare keeps for disaster recovery roll off within 30 days. Uninstalling the app without deleting the account leaves your data on the server, so delete first.

Getting a copy

The app can export everything the server holds about you. You can also email me and I'll send it.

Contact

Questions or requests: waligug@gmail.com.