SPACE - Break phone addiction

This app is very useful; it tells you how long you’ve been on your phone and how many times you’ve unlocked it that day. You have a little galaxy/solar system thing that gets smaller the more you use your phone. The challenge is to keep your space bubble as big as you can. There are set limits for the number of minutes and unlocks for your phone that is either default or changed by you. Fortunately, you aren’t forced to turn off your phone or quit apps when you go over your limit, it’s just kind of like an “oh no! do better tomorrow!” type of thing. It’s very useful because I tend to lose track of time when i’m on my phone, so seeing how much I really spend on it helps me not waste as much time. It does periodically send you notifications when you’ve been on your phone for awhile which are helpful as well. The only problem I have with the app is something that I think is a glitch with the pause feature. The app lets you pause it so it won’t track your usage if you’re using your phone for work or something else productive. But I’ve noticed that if I keep the app paused for any amount of time longer than 10 minutes or so, the numbers completely reset so i’m back to 0 minutes and 0 unlocks at the end of the day. Which isn’t an accurate representation of my usage. If this is a glitch, I hope it gets resolved soon. Besides that, this is a recommendation from me!

I’ve found the app helpful for helping me keep myself from being too distracted by my phone. It may not do anything to keep particular apps from distracting me, but it still tracks my progress and lets me know how much I’ve used my phone over the course of the week and over the course of however long I’ve used the app. When I first set it up, I answered a few questions about how often I use my phone and the app automatically provided a set of default options for the app, which I have the option to change later on if I decide to. I’m even able to set notifications for myself to remind me to get off my phone now and then. However, as useful as the app is, I’ve had some trouble checking my live daily progress on app’s home page. More specifically, I often have to close the app and quickly reopen it due to the counter not updating right away without doing so. I’ve also noticed a flaw with the unlock counter. Sometimes, when I close the app and click on the notification stating the app is closed while on the home screen and not the lock screen, the unlock counter thinks I’m unlocking my phone when I open the app again.

I'm a teenager who downloaded this app because I have to admit that I do have a bit of a problem with my screentime. It tracks your time on your phone and how many times you unlock your phone (which is good for you to know) the only things I have for suggestions are the following. 1. I wish it gave me the little messages more often. (Sometimes it likes to point out, "Hey, ____, studies show that you are happier if you go outside more." Or my personal favorite, "How about you spend sometime in the real world?" They're a funny reminder to stop using my phone for a bit. But sometimes I give myself 5 minutes after the reminder to continue watching which leads to an hour. 2. I also suggest that the app could maybe have a more in depth survey to figure out what kind of phone user I am. Because sometimes I use my phone for 2 different purposes all the time, and I might use my phone for drastically different amounts between days. I did have another suggestion but I forgot what it was. Overall, this is a great app if you're working on breaking a screen habit.

Great app! This is a good tool for monitoring your own phone usage and helping cut back. I wish the messages were customizable (the whole "Don't you want to be more productive in the real world?" is way too specific and actually does the opposite of helping me and I've had to turn those messages off completely even though having some sort of reminder pop up would probably help me more.) It hasn't been working great lately though. It completely stopped tracking my progress for a few days and then said I spent 26 hours on my phone in one day. Lately, it only sometimes tracks my usage. I've definitely been using my phone for most of the morning (a couple hours) and it says I've only been on for 10 minutes. I always have the app open in the background. Do I need to "check in" at the beginning of every day to tell it that it's a new day or something?

I really wanted this to work and motivation wise it does, I know it’s there and I feel guilty being on my phone to long regardless of whether it works or not. The problem is that it doesn’t actually work. Everytime I lock my screen it stops working so if I don’t immediately go to that app and turn it off and then turn it on again then it doesn’t track anything. It also sends me a notification to tap to turn it back on when it stops tracking but the notification disappears if you forget to do it on your lock screen and it’s nowhere to be found in the app. I’ll get in the app to get it running sometimes and then go do my thing and come back to it only to find it didn’t track anything. Fix the glitches and then it’ll be awesome but for now it only works in theory. Oh and I do have my location services on “ always on” if you want to know