Beware: Don't Addict Android Apps!

Dinesh Vishwakarma · 发表于 2019-04-21 01:39:40

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[br][br]What we’re looking at here are tools that are slightly different from the broader, more comprehensive time tracking tools like Toggl or Hours that let you know where all of your time is being spent. If you really want to dig into how you spend your days, those more detailed apps are worth a look. What we’re focusing on is how you spend your time on your devices.[br][br]The one major caveat is that most of these apps require you to give that usage data over to the app maker. So check and double check the terms of service for the application you’re interested in to make certain you’re not giving over more data than you might be comfortable with.[br][br]Quality Time (Android — free)[br][br][br]

[br][br]Quality Time is one of the most well-established time trackers for Android, and it’s easy to see why it’s broken 1 million downloads—everything’s clear and cleanly laid out, showing exactly what you need to know about what you’re doing with your device. It can show total usage as well as individual app usage, plus the frequency with which you launch each app.[br][br]The app comes with a bunch of other features too, like a daily usage alert warning so you get a pop-up when you’ve been on Instagram (or anything else) for too long, and the option to set scheduled, forced breaks from your phone, with muted notifications. You can also set up custom profiles, like Family Time or Office Time, when certain apps are banned.[br][br]App Usage (Android — freemium)[br][br]App Usage is very similar to Quality Time in the features that it offers, letting you dig into your app and phone usage in all kinds of ways, whether you want to see everything you’ve done today or just your most used app for the month. You have the option of keeping a counter on screen at all times, in a little bubble that expands out to show the app’s key features.[br][br]You don’t get quite as many ways to actually manage or control your app usage here as you do with Quality Time, but you can set up reminders to ring whenever you’re spending too much time with your apps without a break. App Usage is also able to keep tabs on other apps you’ve installed and uninstalled, making it easier to bring deleted apps back again.[br][br]RescueTime (Android and Web — freemium)[br][br][br]

[br][br]RescueTime has been diligently plotting the habits of its users since long before the practice became fashionable, and for Android and the web it remains one of the best options for seeing which apps and sites you’re addicted to—all in a very clear, easy-to-read, non-judgmental set of reports, broken down by app and site category.[br][br]You can teach RescueTime which apps and sites are actually helping you be productive and which are just wasting your time (or let the service have an educated guess instead). This gives you a little more insight than just a long list of apps you’ve opened and when. For usage alerts and more detailed reports, a premium account costs $9 per month.[br][br]Webtime Tracker (Web — free)[br][br]Find out exactly where your online time is going—in Chrome at least—with this add-on, which chops your daily browsing up into smart-looking charts and reports. You can see how your usage varies over the week or the month, get daily averages for sites you visit the most, see stats across the whole time the extension has been installed, and more.[br][br]It’s smart too, and will stop tracking if it detects no activity for a certain amount of time (a delay which you can set yourself). Meanwhile the developer promises all the collected data is kept locally and never sent anywhere else. There’s no exact equivalent for Firefox, but Mind the Time is a less feature-rich though still very handy tracking extension you can try.[br][br]Source: GIZMODO[br][br][br][br]My Usage Apps[br][br][br]

[br][br][br]Thank-you!