Show HN: Privacy-first notification blocker for Android ad-free
Permly is a new Android app designed to help users manage notifications more effectively by allowing selective muting of apps based on different profiles. It emphasizes user privacy by not collecting any personal data or displaying ads, making it a unique alternative to traditional Do Not Disturb features. Users can create profiles for various situations like work or sleep, ensuring that only important notifications come through while others are silenced.
- ▪Permly allows users to create custom notification profiles for different situations such as Work, Sleep, and Focus.
- ▪The app does not collect any personal data, ensuring user privacy with no ads or tracking.
- ▪Users can selectively mute specific apps, allowing important notifications to come through while blocking distractions.
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| Original publisher | Permly |
| Canonical URL | https://permly.app |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 19:54:44 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T20:07:54.130Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T20:07:54.130Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Screenshots Reviews How It Works Features vs DND Use Cases Pricing ✦ Your Focus Guardian How to Block Notifications on Androidwith Permly Selectively mute any app, per situation. Work. Sleep. Focus. One tap to switch — all on-device, no account, no tracking. Get It Free on Google Play See How It Works ★★★★★ 4.8 on Google Play · 5,000+ downloads Google Play Android 8.0+ Zero Data Collected No Ads — Ever 5,000+ Downloads 4.8 ★ Google Play rating 0 bytes Data collected Free to try, always How Permly Works: One-Tap Notification Control Simple, clean, and focused — just like your notifications should be.
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