You can download Space on Google Play and iTunes. You can check out stats of your most-used apps, use the screen-dimming and notification-blocker tools and compare your results with friends and family. Space, which used to be called BreakFree, provides a personalized program based on your own phone usage habits and patterns.
More: The 7 Best Grocery-Delivery Apps for When It’s Just Too Cold to Leave Your House Space Image: Space If you have kids, use this app to control their screen time. Whenever you violate your own rules, AppDetox will remind you to take a break and will also keep a log of all your violations. AppDetox Image: AppDetoxĪs the name suggests, this app allows you to take a digital detox by setting your own rules - and even take it to the extreme and lock all your apps. Writers and students: This app is perfect for you. You can use this to track your work sessions too. StayOnTask checks up on you to make sure you’re doing your work - and aren’t scrolling through Twitter - via a random timer so you’ll never know when it’ll go off. Offtime is available on Google Play and iTunes. Plus, you can restrict access to any apps and take a look at the activity log that lists everything you missed while you were “unplugged.” The coolest part? This app will even provide analytics, so you can compare your phone behavior with others. Nineteen percent of employers think their workers are productive for less than five hours a day, and more than half believe that cell phones are to blame. With this app, you can block your calls, texts and notifications. Cell phones are driving many of us to distractionand taking a toll on productivity in the workplace.
With a name like Offtime, it’s pretty clear what this app does: keep you off your phone and focused on your work. More: 10 DIY To-Do Lists That Are as Pretty as They Are Useful Offtime Image: Offtime That’s not all the app will help train you to use your phone less. Want everyone to stay off their phones during dinner? Easy: Start a dinner timer on the app, and whenever anyone picks up their phone, an alert will go off. Not only will it show you what apps you use the most and how often you pick up your phone every day, but you can also monitor every family member’s screen time. Similar name, but different goal: Moment automatically tracks how much time you and your entire family use your phones and tablets. Once you go over your daily limit, In Moment will block access to the social media app(s). It’ll also show which apps you use the most and allow you to set a time limit on app usage. In Moment automatically tracks how much time you spend on social media (a number that’s likely embarrassingly high for most of us). “Unless you’re an advisor to the president and we have a national emergency, you can wait an hour to get a text.More: 7 Social Media Habits That Disqualified Real Candidates, According to Hiring Managers In Moment Image: In Moment “I’m not sure how many people’s text messages are that important,” he said. “Mobile communication devices such as phones may, by their mere presence, paradoxically hold the potential to facilitate as well as to disrupt human bonding and intimacy,” it concluded.Ĭell phones play a significant role in today’s social engagement, but Thornton nonetheless suggests that people just put the device away for awhile. Having the phone out stifled “interpersonal closeness and trust” and kept study participants from feeling empathy for one another, a 2012 study in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships found. The study builds on previous research that suggests that having your cell phone out reduces the quality of social interaction, even if you don’t engage with your phone. Of course, those conditions rarely exist. “You could probably text and drive somewhat safely if you’re on a straight road, and there’s no traffic, and you take your time,” says Thornton. Thornton says the same applies to texting while driving. While performance on complex tasks suffered, the presence of cell phones did little to keep people from successfully finishing easy tasks. “Even if it’s just mental, your focus is not on the task at hand, whether it be trying to write an article, get this spreadsheet set up, or just socializing your mind is elsewhere.” “With the presence of the phone, you’re wondering what those people are doing,” says Thornton, a University of Southern Maine professor. MORE: Why People Text And Drive Even When They Know It’s Dangerous The sight of a cell phone reminds people of the “broader social community” they can access via texting and the internet, says study author Bill Thornton.
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