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reelieve
With reelieve,
it ends here.
Instagram in reelieve: your chats, no feed.
Your life in weeks: 1,387 asleep, 515 at work, 459 on social media. All added up, that’s 8.8 years, almost as long as you work. With reelieve, you take them back.
An 80-year life in weeks, counted round the clock. Sleep: 8 hours a night. Work: 40 hours a week, 46 weeks a year, from 20 to 67. Social media: 3 h 18 min a day from age 16, the average for adults in Germany (Ruhr University Bochum and DZPG, November 2025).
Instagram lives in reelieve now.
Chats, search and profiles. Without the feed and Reels.
Open in reelieve Open for 15 min
Tap Instagram or TikTok out of habit and reelieve appears. One tap and you’re in your chats. The feed stays out.
You decide how much time a day you get. Once it’s used up, only your chats open until midnight. Less works at once, more only from tomorrow.
Where your time goes and how many days you stay within your limit. Counted on your iPhone only.
You sign in directly with Instagram and the others. reelieve never sees your password.
Nobody follows what you do. We sell no data.
Your minutes, limits and settings never leave your device.
All we count, anonymously, is which parts of the app are used. You can turn that off. Privacy policy
No. Your chats are open in reelieve. If the apps are still on your iPhone, their notifications keep coming.
Yes. reelieve shows the networks’ real pages and only hides what keeps you hooked. When a network changes something, reelieve adjusts by itself.
No. Inside reelieve you sign in directly with the network. There is nothing at reelieve to sign up for.
Then you switch it on for a while: 15 minutes, an hour or until midnight. After that it goes away again by itself.
Not right away. Less time always works at once, more time only from tomorrow. If you like, reelieve asks for Face ID too.
Yes. Tap “Open for 15 min” in the Instagram app. It then opens as usual, feed included, and afterwards leads to reelieve again.
Yes. The first week is free. Cancel at least 24 hours before it ends and you pay nothing.
The first week is free.