one sec | screen time + focus

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4.8of 5 · store
23,056ratings on the App Store
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An editorial reading of the saved reviews

A minimalist mindfulness tool: before opening a blocked app you take a deep breath or do a short exercise, which genuinely breaks autopilot and reduces social media use. The weak point is that the free tier blocks only one app, making it nearly useless when you need to limit several social networks.

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What people use it for

People who want to mindfully cut back on social media rather than block it by force

What reviews praise

A pause before Instagram breaks the conditioned reflex better than a hard block.
Several reviews describe real habit change within weeks.

What reviews complain about

Hard blocking is easy to bypass even in the paid version, and one app on the free tier is far too few.

What users experience

6 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

It sounds trite, but this app absolutely changed my life for the better. I have effectively cut out all social media except for one website that I allow. This app effectively broke the muscle memory habit of opening up Instagram or other endless scrolling apps whenever I had a free moment or picked

It does the job. Just making me take a moment and asking "Do you really need to took at this site? Do you need to do it NOW?" is enough of a prompt to stop my mind from wandering.

I had a bad habit of doom scrolling Instagram and even LinkedIn (lol). I just started using this app yesterday, and I already am no longer reflexively hopping on the app.

It's a great app. But it triggered too easily. I sometimes want to turn off dnd or something in the control center and re triggered it. If intential app switching is going to be under the pro version, then at least allow small out of app access like using flashlight or accessing control center to no

Overall, this app has helped me stay away from Instagram for some amount of time. What I've come to strongly dislike is the inability as a free user to turn off haptics for the breathing intervention. I get stressed by haptics and turn them off whenever possible, and I'm not in a condition to be abl

This is the only app that has truly had an impact on reducing my doom scrolling and I'm so grateful!

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Notice the automatic opening of social apps and choose whether to carry on with it now or go back to the task.People who want the phone to distract them less often