Are You Up to Reduce Your Phone Usage? Check these 10 Apps to Help You Out.

Nowadays, our phone usage has increased up to such an extent that we can’t even keep a track of it. Can you? The number of times we pick up our phone is so huge that if we start counting then it might even scare us. Even the service providers are also asking us to reduce usage. But we can’t help it! Because we are addicted to it. 

Is there any solution to it? Yeah, a kind of! You can try some of the digital wellbeing apps which will help you out if you are the one who loses track of time once you pick up your phone. Thanks to those great people who thought about a solution to this problem. If you are someone who uses a phone for everything like from apps to emails and all at the tip of your fingers, then it might be difficult for you to tear yourself away from the phone screen. It may sound you counterintuitive to use an app to unplug, but when we are using smartphones for almost everything, it just kind of makes sense to fight fire with fire. 

Let’s have a look over some of the apps which may help you to curb your smartphone usage:

1. Offtime 

Can you stop yourself from using social media apps? This app will let you block distracting apps like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. You can also view your information about how much you have used your smartphone. Tailored modes can also be enabled.

2. BreakFree 

This app will not only tell about your usage but also your addiction score for that particular application. It can even keep a track of how often you unlock your phone’s screen. 

3. Flipd 

If you are really serious about curbing your phone usage then you can switch to this app. It will keep your phone locked for a set period of time and once you are done enabling this feature, there’s no going back. Thinking about restarting your phone to disable this feature? Sorry! It’s impossible to cheat here.

4. We Flip

This app is really an interesting one. You can try this with your friends. Once all of you are ready, put down your phones together. After the flip session is over the app will show how each of the members fared and who took a peek into their phone.

5. Post Box

If you wanna schedule all your notifications in order to minimize all the distractions during your work then you can try out this app. This app will categorize all the unread notifications so that can be well organized.

6. Unlock Clock

This app will let you count the number of times you open your phone in a day and that number will be right on your screen. Isn’t it the best thing to keep you aware of your phone usage? 

7. Morph

This app can help you arrange all the apps on your phone according to their use. By this, you can simply distribute your work and personal apps. 

8. Forest

Do you lose track of time once you pick up your smartphone and you just keep on using it for ‘hours n hours’? This app has a really interesting solution for you. In this app, you can plant a seed in a virtual forest and the seed will grow on its own. And if in between you couldn’t resist the temptation and you started checking social media then your tree will instantly wither away. 

9. Action Dash

As the name suggests, this app will keep track of all the actions on your phone. Total usage time, the number of notifications, the total number of app launches and the number of times you have unlocked the device in a day, everything will be noted. 

10. AntiSocial

Are you curious about knowing how others use their smartphones? If yes, then you can try out this app. It tells you about other smartphone users globally that how they are using their devices and lets you compare your data with theirs.

So, are you ready to curb your phone usage? C’mon then, try out these amazing apps.