Android app to dismiss notifications automatically based on user-defined filters (opens in new tab)

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3 pointskarolzlot3y ago4 comments

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"Notification Remover" Android app allows to automatically dismiss some notifications but not others, based on user-defined filters. I use it and it works really well.

It is a solution for this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31632137

From app description:

"Notifications will be cleaned automatically based on your input. Select the package name of an app and enter the message text (regular expression) of the annoying notification and you'll never see it again."

It however lacks ability to export / import filters so they need to be created manually.

Also the app is not longer updated. I hope at some point somebody will create open-source clone of it with more features.

Normille3y ago

How is this different from what's built-in to Android? You can silence notifications from individual apps, set 'Do Not Disturb' times and, with quite a few apps, you can even fine-tune which kind of notifications it's allowed to send you.

LilBytes3y ago

This app doesn't work on an app level, it works on a message or notification level.

E.g I want uber to tell me when food or my driver is arriving, but I want them to fuck off from spamming me about discounts or other nonsense. This app allows me to keep for the former but block the latter.

Normille3y ago

I know you just used Uber as an eg. but, as I alluded to before, many apps [inluding Uber] allow you to fine tune what kind of notifications they are allowed to send anyway. Go under the 'Advanced' tab for App Notifications and, for Uber I get the choice to yay or nay:

* Discounts and news

* Account and trip updates

* Location use preferences

* Trip suggestions and reminders

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karolzlotOP3y ago

"Notification Remover" Android app allows to automatically dismiss some notifications but not others, based on user-defined filters. I use it and it works really well.

It is a solution for this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31632137

From app description:

It however lacks ability to export / import filters so they need to be created manually.

Also the app is not longer updated. I hope at some point somebody will create open-source clone of it with more features.

Normille3y ago

LilBytes3y ago

This app doesn't work on an app level, it works on a message or notification level.

Normille3y ago

* Discounts and news

* Account and trip updates

* Location use preferences

* Trip suggestions and reminders

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