QualityTime - My Digital Diet for Android
I like this app. I find it very useful to know when I'm going overboard with using my phone. I appreciate that there is the notification now because it's easier to remember to actually keep tabs on how long I use my phone. My only problem is that on the timeline throughout the day it says frequently at early in the morning( like 1:00 or 4:00) that I've been on Snapchat for a few seconds or 10 minutes. I know for a fact that I wasn't because I'm never awake at that time. Please fix it.
I like that this app shows what your most used apps are within the day and week. I like how you can schedule a break within your desired time, but it also allows you to give special access to certain apps that you need to use with the break. I think it would be a perfect app if it showed your most used overall apps but still a good app to have on your phone.
You can schedule breaks that dont let you on your phone and you can choosr certain apps that you still can use. But i think it should pop up as a notification at the scheduled time and you tap it to start the break. After 5 minutes it starts it for you. However long your break is, the time starts when you hit the notification. Something important came up around my scheduled time that i had to do. I never had the chance to save it before the break, and everything was deleted.
User interface needs a lot of work. Concept is OK but if I want to restrict access to a few specific apps I don't want my phone all locked up. It should really disappear into the background more than it does.
Good app, but there is one problem I wish they would fix. On my old phone in the notification bar it had how much time you had used that day, but on the Galaxy S7, it does not have that on the notification bar. You just have to go to the actual app which is annoying. It would be 5 stars if that were fixed. Edit: FIXED
The auto-play fullscreen ads with loud sound since this version are ridiculous (certainly not "unobtrusive"). Also: when manually unlocked, it locks again at 00:00 o'clock. And if you manually unlock and re-lock before 00:00, you have to unlock twice in a row after 00:00. Otherwise has some useful features.
The app was great until the last update. It stops monitoring the activities and was not even working in the background. I reinstalled it and gave it all the permissions it needs to monitor the device but no luck the app still not monitoring any app and for today the activity is zero same as yesterday.
This app is great and I love all the different ways to view the data, but it gets my usage very wrong sometimes. It often reports multiple consecutive hours of usage on apps when in reality my phone was locked the whole time. I think what happens is that sometimes it doesn't notice when I've locked the screen while still on an app, and so instead of seeing the time as locked it just thinks I'm still using it. If you fix this, 5 stars.
This has quickly become one of my must-have apps. Displays neat usage reports that are connected by intuitive navigation. It really shows how often we underestimate the time spent on a particular app. By looking at the gaps in the daily timeline, one can also quickly find out how much time some screen-off (sleep/dine-out) activities took. I don't use the "break" functionality much, but it seems to be solid too.
The first time I installed this app (more than a year ago), it was not reliable with the time and stopped working altogether after a week or so. I decided to reinstall the app about 4 days ago, hoping that with updates and bug fixes, it would be more reliable. Lo and behold, it stops working after 4 days. This time, I'm uninstalling for good.
Very insightful stats on your phone usage and the option to stop tracking certain apps is very helpful (since I tend to sleep through my alarms and that can rack up the usage stats to a few hours haha). I would like a slightly more invasive way to make you stop using your phone if you've overshot your time limits but I understand that's not completely feasible so this is pretty much the best that can happen. Thank you for this app!
Fantastic app, love the breakdown and surprisingly love the permanent notification when I expected to hate it. To bring it up to 5 stars, I'd love to see a day start/end time setting. I say this because I often stay up after 12am on my phone, and when I wake up and see multiple unlocks etc, it can be a little annoying to track my daily habits.
Used to be a great app, the last update makes it unusable. Massive screen-blocking ads have been added, and it's impossible to access any apps during breaks, even ones previously defined by the user. Really disappointing.
Worked fine as a timer to totally turn my phone off when I didn't want to use it, but I couldn't make it work to block some apps while allowing others. Most annoyingly, it made it imposible to turn off an alarm. So I paid the $2 for ClearLock Pro instead.
The app does exactly what it says. My biggest complaint is that I cannot download the database so I can run my own analysis on my app usage.
You don't realise how much you use your phone. This app has been great for showing me how much I use mine and where I waste the most time. Now it's helping me where my self-discipline fails by reminding me it's time to take a break and preventing me from using my phone unnecessarily. I'm just embarrassed I need an app for that!
This apps successfully destroyed my bad habits! Use this apps to develop self discipline and you'll see your life will improve. Thank you so much developers :D
I used to love this app! It was perfect! But now it's stopped working and I can open all my apps when they should be locked so I'll have to uninstall...
This is a great app. It really helped me find some balance. I'd love to give you 5 stars, but ever since the update included ads, it really lost some of its appeal. I'd love to see some sort of ad-free version so I don't look for another option.
EDIT: All fixed, back to awesome!! Live tracking in the notification bar doesn't work since I updated my s7 (same app version). For a few updates now. Still a permanent slot in the drop down, but it's BLANK. Otherwise it was 4/5 star before.
Would be 5 stars without the aggressive ads. Please allow me to buy an ad-free version. Audio ads with machine gun sounds when you brought the kids to bed and want to check your mail (i exit family time once they are asleep) are a no - go.
Only 1 problem is that.... App don't have feature like off time. In that time app dont calucate any usage. All other thinks are good.
I hadn't realised how much time I spend on my device before I started using this app. It has made the systematic reduction of my screen-time an easy task. Thanks :)
Failing to plan is planning to fail: putting ads on your app without offering the ability to pay to remove them cheapens your app and gets it deleted. Bye!
It's a meditation. Yeah, Ad's help keep the stuff free of charge / gratis, and help us fill our bill. But a donation button is definitely recommended (maybe, not sure though).
Simple and detailed at the same time. Nice interface. Good solving family disputes :-) Apparently I do use my phone more than my daughters
This is B's! I definitely should have listened to everyone else. It don't matter what apps I have in the apps you can use list during scheduled breaks, it doesn't let me in my whole phone! How is that safe if someone only has messaging to communicate and or what if there was an emergency and they had to message 911 but y'all are basically saying "nope! Too bad! You have to wait it out while you're dying" are you serious? Fix this and reply to me or I'm deleting within a half hour. Thanks!
It's a great app to understand how you're using your phone. It's amazing how much time I spend on things!! A real eye opener
This app is great. Really useful, simple to use, and effective. As a teenager this is definitely a lot better than just trying not to use your phonre- invariably you pick it up habitually without realising sometimes. However, I think having a reset function might be beneficial in the settings.
I missed 2 alarms because of this. It shuts down my phone audio even after I'm done
Brilliant! So simple but absolutely does the job and gives you a wake up call tobhow much time you're wasting
Awesome app. Keeps a track on unproductive screen time.
Excellent... It gives you back your quality time This helped me discover my phone usage habits and I greatly reduced few addictive habits.
A very useful app, would give it 5 stars but it sometimes monitors when apps (even the quality time app itself) are open in the background, meaning my usage has been logged at several hours more than it actually is.
It does not record all my tume spend on phone after the recent update. I watched 15 minutes of youtube and yet only 4 minutes is recorded. This only happens after the latest update. Hope you can fixed it soon.
This app is very easy to use and helpful to show the daily usage time of phone. By this app u can easily get idea about the usage of your app with time also.
It's not working properly. It's telling me I've been in my phone for 7 hours plus when it's been less than an hour. I think it's counting background running apps.
Login & restore takes ages after installing the app.. and once you skip the restore there will be no restore option within app.. 5 star to straight 1
The interface is nice, clean and very user friendly. I like that you can set overall sot alarms as well as alarms for sot on a per app basis; however, it seems to continuously log whatever app I had opened last I once I go into power saving mode on my Nexus 5x. One night I had a lengthy time away from my charger and by the time it got plugged in it showed a crazy 8 hours of sot. I didn't have my display on or anything. Once this is fixed, it will easily earn my 5 star rating.
by J####:
would be a great app, but it doesn't track right. I just spent at least 10 minutes reading an article online (linked from facebook) but the number on "today's usage" stayed the same. could it be that it's only tracking the time you spend directly in an app? please fix this, would love this app otherwise!