What Removication can't do

Limits set by Android

• It can't stop a notification before it arrives. Android delivers first, then Removication removes it. In our tests nothing was visible, but on some phones a notification may flash up for a moment.
• It needs Notification Access. Without it, no app can see or remove another app's notifications.
• Kinds appear only after an app has used them. Android doesn't let other apps read an app's list of notification kinds in advance. Choose “Let only certain ones through” to be covered from the start.
• Some phones stop it in the background. Battery optimisation on some manufacturers' phones ends background services. Removication shows when that's the case and takes you to the right setting.
• Codes stay unreadable. From Android 15, one-time codes and passwords in notifications are hidden from apps like this. Removication can still hide the notification – it just can't build rules from the code's text.
• No iPhone version. iOS doesn't let apps manage other apps' notifications.

Limits we chose on purpose

• Calls, alarms and emergency alerts always get through, as do ongoing navigation, music and recordings. A missed warning is never worth it.
• Switching off doesn't bring hidden notifications back. Only new ones come through again; the hidden ones stay in the Catcher. That way nobody can reveal them by flipping the switch.
• The censored stand-in names Removication. Android always shows which app posted a notification. It never shows the original app, sender or text – choose “Hide” if even that is too much.
• Removication doesn't disguise itself. Its icon is visible in your app list; there's no stealth mode.
• No free-text keyword filter. Rules come from real notifications: press and hold one in the Catcher and hide its sender, title, account or text.
• Nothing is moved to a new phone. The Catcher is excluded from cloud backup on purpose. On a new phone you set up your sets again.

Limits of the free version

• One set. Premium adds as many sets as you like, each with its own switch and schedule.
• The Catcher keeps 24 hours. Premium keeps up to three months and adds search.
• No app lock. Without it, anyone who opens Removication can read the Catcher. Premium adds a four-digit PIN of its own.
• A small Google ad banner. It never receives your notifications. Premium removes it – a one-time purchase, no subscription.

“Show again afterwards” (Premium)

With a time window, Premium can bring hidden notifications back as normal notifications when the window ends. Two cases where that doesn't happen:

• The phone restarts during the window. Android drops the waiting notification; the entry stays in the Catcher.
• The app withdraws it in the meantime, for example because you read the message on your laptop. Then it doesn't come back; the Catcher entry stays.

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