Moment: Cut Screen Time Reviews

Coaching crashes a lot importing screenshots

OrionEridanus

UPDATE: I tried a couple of more times after I arrived at work a couple of hours later, deleting all the prior screenshots each time through. It finally worked. During he fourth import attempt, someone called. I wonder if that messed up the process. but that does not explain the first three crashes and the failures to do anything a couple of times after. A lot of users will give up trying after so many failures. This needs addressing. I donated $9.99 at the beginning of the free coaching segment because I do believe it is important for people to be more conscious of their phone use. Then I began the coaching. The first step is to take screenshots of the battery app so moment can log how much time I spend in each app the past week. It is supposed to look at the screen shots and digest them. Sadly the operation where the app actually reads the screenshots consistently crashes the app (iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 11.2.1). I note that my version of iOS only shows the last 5 days rather than the last 7, so the top of the first screen is slightly different, but I hope the scan is not that fragile! I gave $9.99 willingly and cannot even complete the first day of coaching. I suspect subsequent days will be inaccessible until I do. I want my money back. The irony is that I have spent over a half hour running the coaching, messing around In Settings, taking screenshots, deleting screenshots restarting moment a few time and trying again a couple of times, and now I am going to be late for work and have not done my morning meditation yet and am stressed.

Great Idea - Pretty Great Execution

mercantilever

Definitely something we need to start taking seriously. Thanks!

Okay concept- if it worked

Rach_1

Unfortunately this app does not do what it says it will do. The first week or so it worked somewhat. But after I bought premium it started inaccurately tracking time spent on the phone. I was on my phone at midnight and by 12:30 it said I had already been on my phone an hour and a half that day, when there had only been 30 minutes in the day! This is a trend I am noticing. It monitors time incorrectly. It also is very finicky when it comes to tracking app usage. For instance, you can take the battery screenshot like it says each week, but I have only had it actually translate the screenshot correctly into actual usage one time. Ever since then it has said the report is ready, but it was blank, it does not actually work. And even if it did work, it is basically just taking the information your phone already tracks and putting it in a different format. Not worth it. This would be a great app if it worked and didn’t give you false data and was able to do what it says. I would not recommend downloading this app or upgrading, it really isn’t worth it for the false information you get.

Super Awesome!

Reggae Ball

The developer Kevin is super awesome, super responsive (I pretty much always owe him a late response when we’re emailing haha) and continues to improve and take my suggestions into account. Thanks so much! The app itself is great, I use this and one of his other app Focus (which reminds you to not use your phone while driving). The battery issues really seem to have gone away from when it used to eat up a lot of space, but it was worth it anyways :) iOS can be really tricky to code around with all their restrictions, but Kevin is really creative to getting around some of these issues. For example how he uses screenshots to track the app usage (one iOS note, that took me a while to figure out, is that it won't track specific app usage if you're using your phone while it's charging, since it's getting its screenshots from the battery usage section. But that's the best possible solution under iOS right now) :) Thanks again Kevin!!!

Location services on “always” ruins this for me

Fingerinmychris

Love the app. Really. But if you don’t give the app permissions to be using location services always, it doesn’t track your usage. I don’t care about where I am when I’m using it, I just care about time and pickups. It’s clearly collecting user data and most likely selling our usage habits. But besides that I don’t want this app always using my GPS. It’s a battery drain.

Wow ?

#the truth hurts

Never realised how much time I was spending on my phone!!! Only wish I could get more without paying

Not reliable

beihaihomes

Good but when I try to set a screen time block that is timed (I paid for it!) it sometimes works sometimes doesn’t work and overall is not reliable. Is this app was reliable it would be a great app.

Not sure how they are getting numbers

Ashliek123

I've really been trying to use my phone less so I wanted to find an app to help me see how much I was using it. I'm not going to pay for an app like that, don't really see the increased value. So I gave this a try since a lot of features are free and you can upgrade for more. I know I use my phone a lot but this was telling me I was using it in hours I wasn't even awake to use. Is this just tracking hours your phone is on? I can't even tell without upgrading. When I looked at the broken up time periods it came out to only 35 minutes but it said I was using my phone for over 8 hrs and it was only 9 AM. Not impressed. ?

Give me my money back

Iggy.Ariana

I never pay for apps, and the one time I did, the app kept shutting down and kept deleting my data. Not worth it.

AMAZING

loveroflifehaterofscreens

Honestly never thought I would tackle my phone addiction like I did with this app. This is such an amazing way to know how long you really do spend on your phone, when and where you usually pick it up, and overall tracking all of your habits. Believe in yourself because this app will help guide you to being as phone free as possible!!

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