Infinite scroll is built to never stop, so you never do either. Here is why it is designed that way, what actually helps you disable it, and how Anása guards the moment you open a bottomless feed.
Most apps do not let you turn infinite scroll off. It is a core part of how they are built, not a setting you can flip. On desktop, a few browser extensions and reader modes can help. On the phone it is much harder.
So the honest approach is not to fight the scroll itself. It is to add friction at the one moment that matters, the moment you open the feed. If you can catch that moment, you can choose whether to fall in. That is exactly what Anása is built to do.
Old websites had pages. You read a page, you clicked next, and that click was a small decision. It gave you a moment to ask whether you wanted to keep going. Infinite scroll removed that decision.
There is no pagination anymore. New content autoloads before you reach the bottom, so the feed refills itself faster than you can empty it. There is no last item, no end of the list, and no natural stopping cue to tell you the session is over.
Researchers sometimes describe this as the bottomless bowl. In one well known idea, people eating from a bowl that quietly refilled itself ate far more than people with a normal bowl, because the empty bowl is the signal to stop. A feed with no bottom removes that signal. You keep going not because you decided to, but because nothing told you that you were done.
This is not an accident. Endless feeds are engineered to keep you moving, because time spent scrolling is the thing these apps are built to grow. Understanding that is the first step, because it means the problem is not your willpower. The design is doing exactly what it was made to do.
Before the tips, one honest note. There is no clean off switch for infinite scroll inside most apps. The big social apps almost never offer one, and when they remove a feature people rely on, it tends to come back.
On a computer, browser extensions and reader modes can strip a lot of the endless loading away, and that genuinely helps. On a phone, most of us use the native app, where those tools do not reach. So the goal here is not a magic setting. It is to reduce the pull and, more importantly, to change how you enter the feed in the first place.
None of these turn infinite scroll off completely. What they do is add friction and remove the reflex, so the feed has less of a grip on you.
These help. But they all rely on you remembering to do the right thing in the exact second you reach for the app, which is the second when your guard is lowest. That is the gap Anása is built to fill.
Anása does not block the scroll and it does not lock your phone. It works on the one thing the tips above depend on, the moment you open a bottomless feed.
You choose which apps to guard. When you open one of them, Anása notices and adds a single breath and a calmer path before the feed loads. That short pause turns an automatic open into a real choice. Often that is all it takes to decide you did not need the feed right now.
It only touches the specific apps you pick. Everything else opens normally. Calls, maps, messages, and the essentials always work, because the goal is not to punish you or cut you off. The goal is to put one small decision back where infinite scroll took it away.
And it is fully on your phone. No camera, no trackers, nothing sold. Anása watches for the apps you chose and adds a breath. That is the whole idea, and it is free on iPhone and Android.
In most apps, no. Infinite scroll is a core design choice, and the big social apps rarely give you a switch to turn it off. Some desktop browser extensions and reader modes can help, but on the phone it is much harder. The realistic move is to add friction at the moment you open the feed, rather than trying to disable the scroll itself.
It removes every natural stopping point. There are no pages, no end, and no cue that tells you it is time to stop. New content loads before you reach the bottom, so you keep going without deciding to. Researchers sometimes call this the bottomless bowl effect, where you keep consuming because nothing tells you that you are full.
Use the app in a browser instead of the native app where you can, turn off autoplay in the app settings, switch your screen to greyscale, and remove the app from your home screen so opening it takes a deliberate step. To guard the exact moment you open a feed, Anása adds a single breath and a calmer path before you fall in.
Anása does not block the scroll or lock your phone. It detects when you open an app you have chosen and adds a mindful pause first, one breath and a calmer path, so you open the feed on purpose instead of by reflex. Calls, maps, and essentials always work. Everything stays on your phone.
Free on iPhone and Android. Everything stays on your phone.