SPACE - Break phone addiction
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | Free | Mrigaen Kapadia | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
#1 App to break phone addiction#
#Stay focused, break phone addiction and manage your screen time#
#Change habits with friends & family across platforms#
#Take our 8 Day Course to find your phone/life balance#
Are you addicted to your phone? Spending too much time scrolling, swiping and staring? Want to change these habits and feel more in control? SPACE will help you find your phone/life balance.
With SPACE you can:
• Set goals for phone usage and unlocks, track progress against these goals over time
•Take our 8 Day Phone/Life Balance course - relatable, informative and easy to action research and recommendations delivered day by day (pro)
• Share your progress with friends, families and colleagues, building new habits together (pro)
• Benchmark performance against other SPACE users (pro)
• Understand what ‘type’ of phone user you are - be it boredom battler, social sticky-mitt, rabbit hole wanderer or busy bee
• Unlock top tips to achieve digital balance
Smartphones are an essential part of our daily lives. But the constant flow of interruptions and information can leave us feeling distracted, disconnected, overwhelmed and removed from the people we love rather than lost in the moment.
Supported by research from leading universities, our personalised digital behaviour change program will help you take back control of your phone, to find more space in your life, to find the moment. SPACE helps you to set goals for your phone use, it monitors your behaviour and tracks progress, plus you can share your results with friends and family.
If you think you’re spending an unhealthy amount of time on your smartphone and getting distracted or feeling addicted, SPACE will help you take control of your phone life balance and connect you with the real world.
Note: SPACE requires Location Services to be ON to track your time effectively. The use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life; however significant improvements have been made from the former Breakfree product.
If you encounter any issues or have any suggestions to improve the app, please write to us at [email protected].
SPACE is free, however, you can purchase SPACE Pro for a one-time payment of $3.99 USD
Note: SPACE requires Location Services to be ON to track your time effectively. The use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life; however significant improvements have been made from the former Breakfree product.
If you encounter any issues or have any suggestions to improve the app, please write to us at [email protected].
Terms of Service: https://findyourphonelifebalance.com/terms-of-service/
Reviews
Useful but needs work
emiliabroon
This is a great app and I’ve been looking for an app like this for awhile. The achievements that you can earn are a good start, but aren’t exactly motivational. Plus, even when I go over my time/unlock goal, I still earn the achievement. Like, if my time goal was 3 hours, graph will say that I spent 4 hours but I still earned the stars for “meeting my time goal.” It’s hard to be motivated to meet the goal when I earn the “prize” for going over my time.
Nice idea
zenrocks
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
Does Not Work
shadikarimii
I have activated/allowed access to and refreshed all that was required; however, the app does not work.
Actively tracks location. No thanks.
airGOAT
App will not work unless you let it continually track your location. Not in the background. It tracks your every movement as if you were using your gps. I’m not interested in giving out that information. Forget for a second the battery drain this causes. With all the nefarious data collection we are learning about right now, I’m not interested in providing this information to a random developer who says “our app won’t work without it” There can only be three reasons they would say “it won’t work”: 1. It’s a lie. It could in fact be made to do so, but they won’t do it. They want the data for reasons likely inherent to their business model. In this case they are dishonest and can’t be trusted with said data. 2. They can’t figure out how to do it. In which case, they are incompetent and shouldn’t be trusted with said data. 3. It really can’t be done. They are telling the truth. Which means there is a massive inherent battery drain baked in, no matter what. In which case, their app is broken and it’s not worth it to trust them with said data.
Good, but needs a notification system upgrade
hjceghhgcg
This app is excellent, but it needs a system to where that if you spend over a certain amount of time on your phone, it will notify you. Overall, it was a pretty good app.
Unlocks inaccurate
Andi8290
I will wake up in the morning and it’ll tell me I’ve unlocked my phone 7 times and I know I haven’t even used it yet.
Great App- One Suggestion
Doog Doolan
This is a great app and I love (and hate) seeing how much I’m on my phone. One thing I’d love to see is a notification every thirty minutes I’m on my phone. I get the notifications every ten minutes but I can ignore them easily. I can easily ignore “Hey we just saw you!” but it’d be harder to ignore something like “You’ve been on your phone for 4 hours today.” The latter would shame me to get off my phone and be more effective. Overall, though, great app!
Am I just using this wrong or is this a bug?
Alicia92
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?
