Addicted to smartphone? This app can help

10 years, 6 months ago

Addicted to smartphone? This app can help

Washington: A new app is here to not only help identify your bad habits — such as spending an inordinate amount of time on the phone — but also suggest ways to get rid of them. A German psychologist Alexander Steinhart has developed the app called OFFTIME in collaboration with the Humboldt University of Berlin and designer Michael Dettbarn. The app can also auto-respond to incoming messages on your behalf while maintaining a careful activity log of everything you missed, while away, so you can quickly catch up. Offtime also provides similar insights about your usage of your phone like charting out hours spent on the device, and even detailing which individual apps are consuming your time the most.

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