r/apps • u/Emergency-Year-9618 • 59m ago
App Made a unique doomscroll app that actually works
Looking for genuine feedback on my app ! (Early stages)
I actually work in healthcare with addiction patients so I have a good 2cents to add to this topic which everyone these days seems to struggle from. The best way to quit something you're addicted to isn't to go cold turkey or delete the apps, everyone will work around it some way or another.
The best way is to manage your expectations of reducing your screentime. If you're on 9 hours a day, just try to go down to 8 hours for a few weeks. It's a marathon not a sprint, genuinely your brain receptors are used to a certain level of stimulation so you need to reframe the reduction to be much slower - allow yourself to still use your phone without full blocking it out, but just be more conscious of it.
So I coded an app (android only, sorry) just for this , because I had the same situation as you. Everytime I deleted social media I just worked around it, and I also hated not being able to reply to messages if I was fully locked out.
The app idea is that it allows you to use whichever app you're addicted to (tiktok, insta etc) for a short period of time that you set (E.g. 10 mins) and then it locks it for only a short period afterwards (E.g. 30 mins). This way you don't get stuck in those massive doomscrolling sessions lasting hours, and are able to slowly reduce app use over time by constricting the time limits as you please. You just set it and forget it, it runs in the background.
It's pretty new and has a few glitches (will be fixing them after my exams lol) but if you wanted to try it out here's the link :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.getrecess.app
It's called recess - stop doomscrolling
