Prevents me from spending an unwell amount of time on instagram and twitter. It shows you how many times you’ve tried to get on an app in the previous 24 hours and makes you do some extremely annoying task beforehand. Bonus points if you turn on front facing camera so you are forced to look at yourself every time you go to sad scroll. It is rewiring my brain to feel disgust when I click on those evil apps
something unique about me is that I need to be on my phone less. this app has been the most helpful deterrent for some reason...don't want to spoil how but every time I want to open instagram, for example, I have to do something humiliating like "exercise patience."
Like lucius says about adding friction: there’s an app called One Sec that simply puts a couple seconds between you and an app (like Instagram). It’s supposed to make it annoying for you each time you open the app so over time your mind desires to open it less and less. It prompts you to breathe during those seconds too, to get you to be mindful instead of impulsive with your phone use. I’ve been using it with Instagram and it has worked to stave off my phone addiction, at least on the front of removing the mindless impulse to doomscroll.
It’s an app that you can use to block certain apps on your phone that has helped me greatly decrease my social media time without quitting cold turkey (though I’m trying to do that too, recently). I have it set so that I can only open instagram 7 times a day in 5 minute increments. I spend much less time doomscrolling but can still look at things my friends have sent me, etc.
