BuzzKill Notification Manager has 110 thousand installs. Users love it: 4.6 stars from 2,897 ratings. Its best ranking is #2 in Top Paid, Tools in United States. Show more ›
BuzzKill Notification Manager is made and published by
Sam Ruston.
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Summary
BuzzKill Notification Manager gives you precise control over Android notifications with per-contact rules, cooldowns, and auto-dismiss capabilities. Privacy-first and ads-free, it runs on-device with no internet access. It ranks highly across ES (#2), US (#3), and GB (#3) with a solid rating from 2,611 users; total downloads 100,000+ and 2.8K in the last 30 days.
Pros & Cons
Privacy-first with no ads or data leaving your device
Rich rule-based automation (cooldown, remind, snooze) for targeted alerts
Per-contact customization for sounds and actions
Wear OS companion app for wrist-based control and automation
Lacks calendar integration and reminder widgets that some competitors advertise
No floating/mobile widgets advertised for quick access
May require setup to fully leverage advanced automation features
About BuzzKill Notification Manager
BuzzKill Notification Manager is a tools app developed by Sam Ruston.
Install Statistics
BuzzKill Notification Manager has been installed 110 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was installed 2.8 thousand times. It is ranked #2 in tools.
User Ratings
BuzzKill Notification Manager is rated 4.64 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 2.9 thousand ratings.
App Information
BuzzKill Notification Manager costs $3.99. The app size is 39.69 MB. The latest version available is 38.0.0. The last update was on September 26, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play since June 2020.
Description by Sam Ruston(from Google Play)
TIMES MAGAZINE - BEST INVENTIONS 2025 ANDROID AUTHORITY - "This is the notification manager Google should’ve built for Android years ago" LIFEHACKER - "BuzzKill Is the Best Way to Manage Your Android Notifications"
BuzzKill allows you to see the notifications you need to see when you need to see them and filter out everything else you don't. Here is just a taste of what BuzzKill can do:
• Cooldown - Don't get buzzed multiple times when someone messages you multiple times in quick succession • Custom alert - Set a custom sound or vibration pattern for a specific contact or phrase • Dismiss - Automatically swipe away any notification you don't want to see, without hiding all notifications for that app • Reply - Automatically reply to a message if you haven't seen it after a while • Remind me - Keep reminding you until you see a notification • Undo - Gives you a second chance to tap on a notification when you accidentally swipe it away • Snooze - Receive your notifications in batches so they fit your schedule • Alarm - Get your attention such as for a security camera notification • Secret - Hide the content of the notification • Keep a history of your notifications so you review or restore them later • And many more...
FAQ: https://buzzkillapp.com BuzzKill is privacy first. There are no ads, no trackers and no data ever leaves your device. Unlike pretty much every app on your phone and the Play Store it doesn't have access to the internet (you can check) so you can be sure that your data is safe.
Looking for a free trial? BuzzKill cannot connect to the internet to verify purchases, so it does not offer a free trial in the app. However if you're not happy with your purchase, please press the contact support button in the app and I'll refund your order if you're outside of Google Play's returns period.
Wear OS BuzzKill has a companion app for Wear OS that allows you to trigger certain actions on the watch based on the rules that the phone triggers. For example you can create a rule in BuzzKill to trigger an alarm when you receive a certain notification. With the BuzzKill companion app, you can have the alarm show up on your watch too.
Accessibility Service API BuzzKill includes an optional accessibility service that allows it automate certain actions on your device. For example you set BuzzKill to automatically tap a button in a notification. No data is collected and no data leaves the device. You do not need to enable the accessibility service unless you create a rule that uses it.
Does BuzzKill work with phone calls? Unfortunately phone calls work very differently to notifications and they have limited support in BuzzKill. E.g. you can't set a custom vibration or sound for a phone call, but you can use the unsilence rule to temporarily allow a phone call to unsilence your rule based on the time/location/phone number that is calling.
Recent changes: Add "same description" option to cooldown - e.g. to dismiss notifications with the same description like a job posting Add "Reject call" action to rules Reminders re-trigger torch/flashlight New "preview" option for speak plugin for just reading truncated description Add filter for only triggering when some app(s) is or isn't open
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Comments on BuzzKill Notification Manager for Android
★★★★★Stu S· Aug 19, 2026
I hesitated to buy this, and I am SO glad I finally bought it. Literally any time I get a nuisance notification (e.g. every political text, "weekly updates" on my phone usage I don't care about, my electric company texting me to let me know that they got my money, etc.) I stop, leave the notification up, open BuzzKill, create a rule, and make sure the message goes away. Organized into folders, I get SO MANY LESS unnecessary notifications now. THANK YOU for building this app!!!!!!!!
★★★★★Keno Carl Reyes· Aug 22, 2026
Banking apps/e wallet apps and shopping apps here in my country pushed a lot of spam notifications that can't be disabled, and this app has been a lifesaver for me. I can now enable notifications for those apps creating a rule to only dismiss those spam notifications. Creating these rules is also easy thanks to the wonderful design of the app. Thank you so much for this app devs!
★☆☆☆☆Sharon· Sep 22, 2026
Ignored all criteria-set up about fifteen different rules for getting rid of my text message spam, and it only caught one in thirty days despite having the correct words in the spam text to identify. Got many spam tests still using the word "healthcare" maybe it's just an Android thing. As I know there were some settings, I had to change, but just feel like it was not helpful for the reason I needed it
★☆☆☆☆Ray C· Oct 2, 2026
Does nothing, it has all the rights it asked for, and I tried to filter out all political text, and they still go through. The buzzkill history is empty. Filtered on vote, GOP, DEM, and many more. Maybe it's me, but I can't figure it out.
★☆☆☆☆012wtf EZ· Aug 5, 2026
Tested by using my name as a filter, on any app, received no alert.... PS I can't get it to work every time. I'm trying to get a notification from my gmail account setup in Samsung's email app. Without changing anything sometimes it sometimes works not, using the same test email. If I auto-create a rule from the same email from the notification history from Samsung app and the Gmail app, the rules are different. Samsung has my name, Gmail uses "me". I'm using a S24U
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Technologies used by BuzzKill Notification Manager
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Trust & Safety: BuzzKill requests a broad set of permissions (location, network state, notifications, foreground service, exact alarm, biometric usage, Bluetooth, and more) and explicitly describes privacy-focused behavior: no internet access by default, optional accessibility service for automation, and data that remains on-device with no data leaving the device. This combination emphasizes a privacy- and security-conscious approach while providing powerful on-device notification management.
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