Google Released 3 More Apps to Cut Down Smartphone Usage

Apart from previous digital well-beingness apps like Morph, Unlock Clock, Postbox and We Flip, Google is trying to cut down smartphone addiction in youths and young adults with 3 more digital well-being experimental apps for Android users.

I installed the apps on the Pixel 3 XL to test them out and I constitute them quite interesting. And so let'south dive into a few details that I wanna share.

ane. Envelope

In a word, this app is "unusual". The app is not nevertheless available in the Play Store, but you tin can get the APK file (link below). Envelope is designed to cutting down your smartphone usage by converting your "smartphone" into a "dumbphone". Remember the Palm Phone? Envelope turns your smartphone into a feature telephone like the Palm Phone.

At present the "unusual" feature of this app is that it provides you with a PDF which you tin can print and make a concrete envelope to put your telephone inside. As of now, the concrete envelope is only made for the Pixel 3A. This envelope features a printed num-pad on the front and just a unmarried cut for the single lens of the Pixel 3A. I could not test out the physical envelope, just if you lot are rocking a Pixel 3A, you tin can download the PDF right from the app and check it out yourself.

Download Envelope (Not Rated)

2.Action Bubbles

Activity Bubbling is simply a alive wallpaper app which shows a visual representation of your smartphone usage right on your home screen, but with a twist. When you set the wallpaper, at first it will prove a plainly black screen. Now only lock your telephone and unlock over again. As soon as you commencement using your phone, a white chimera falls from above the screen and settles at the bottom. The catch of the app is the size of these bubbling.

The bubbles represent the corporeality of time yous spent lilliputian with your smartphone in your previous session. The more than time y'all spent, the bigger will be the chimera. And so at the end of the mean solar day, you will exist able to run into a bubbly wallpaper which will likewise bear witness the cumulative time you spent using your device.

1 imperfection of this app is that it is not at all customisable and users made that clear with the reviews on the Play Store.

Download Activity Bubbles (Rated 4.0 ⭐ on Play Store)

3.Screen Stopwatch

The Screen Stopwatch is pretty similar to the previous app. This is another live wallpaper app that shows a stopwatch covering the habitation screen. This also has a patently black backdrop showing the hour at the peak, minute in the middle and the bottom shows the seconds. This app constantly ticks as long as the screen of your device is on, showing the amount of fourth dimension you are spending using the phone.

The watch will terminate ticking every bit soon as you lock the device and volition keep the tape until you unlock your device again. So unlike the Activity Bubbles, instead of the visual representation, this app will give yous the actual amount of time you spent fidgeting or working with your phone.

I flaw of this app is that, as it is constantly updating the fourth dimension, it affects the battery performance of the device heaily.

Download Screen Stopwatch (Rated four.0 ⭐ on Play Store)

So these are the new Google Digital Wellbeing Experiment apps. Y'all can apply these to monitor the amount of fourth dimension yous spend staring at your smartphone screen. These apps might assistance people to be more than active, social and clear-minded. So, what are you waiting for? Get ahead and try them out.