Under a post about a scroll-counter app, the comment that stuck wasn't guilt. It was "I'll hit the high score."

So highscroll counts every Reel and TikTok you swipe (YouTube Shorts is not checked yet) and turns the day into an arcade score: the number, and how far your thumb ran (1,204 swipes is about 96 metres).

The leaderboard is the odd part. There's no server and no account: you type three letters like on an old cabinet, and the high-score table lives in the link you send. A friend opens it, adds their row, sends it on. The app has no internet permission at all, so it can't send anything anywhere; Android's app info shows it.

Honest note: Android warns you when you turn it on, because counting a swipe in another app takes an accessibility service. It listens only to scroll events in Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

Built by an AI agent, checked by a person. No AI runs inside the app.

Android, free: vibeoverflow.itch.io/highscroll
No Android? Try the 20-second thumb sprint in your browser: overflow.games/highscroll

What's your thumb's record?

Giving apps accessibility access is the one thing that has led to a slippery slope that has caused me to unlock the homescreen from malware on many an Android. The rub is I really want an app like this in some way so I suggest forking Newpipe and building this into that with a simple way to add the various APIs from whatever streaming service.

I would also like to see this done as a flappy bird-like ;) doom and undoom(?)