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Amazing
Amazing app, so clever, smooth and it looks nice. Two complaints though. 1. Setup is annoying if you are trying to block more than two or three apps. Don’t plan on having it on a lot of apps, let alone all of them. You have to set up each app individually in shortcuts. Not a huge deal, but slightly inconvenient. I was planning on having this on most of my apps, but I quickly realized that was going to be very time consuming. 2. Not all apps are covered. If you have some indie apps (I definitely do) that you would like to apply this to, I’d say good luck, but I doubt it will be available to one sec. 3. This isn’t a complaint, more like a heads up. The only feature available to you without the premium version is a pop-up when you open the app telling you to take a deep breath.
All in all, I think this app is brilliant and I would still give it 5 stars. 😊Show lessKawaiiJalapeño
Instagram becomes more enjoyable, less harmful
Instagram reels to me can feel like getting sucked into a black hole where i lose my grip on reality and can’t stop scrolling. Having one sec interventions makes me aware of my surroundings every 5 minutes meaning i can enjoy the funny videos on Instagram without missing out on my day. I use apple’s screen time feature as well to limit Instagram to an hour per day and I have someone else who knows the screen time password. This means I can only do ‘one more minute’ once when the time runs out. I feel like I am in control of my time now. I like the features one sec has especially the new scrolling wheel to choose the amount of time you want before an intervention which is way more purposeful than before when you hit a button to choose the time. This app is very helpful to my life.Show lessxriyryxituditudktkuc
Gobsmacked
I found this app annoying at first, until I realised that I’m getting annoyed because of how many times a day I muscle-memory into social media. It forces me to stop and think “why did I open this app?” And I find that I generally don’t have any answer. I thought I was doing something, but I wasn’t. It was just habit! This is saving me from so much wasted time. And now I view social media only when it is intentional.Show lessteqteq
Wow. If everyone had this app, we’d be a better world.
I’ve never written a review on anything. Not even a restaurant.
I used to tell myself that I needed social media for my business. That wasn’t true. I was addicted and every instance where I had to be alone with my thoughts, I picked up my phone and scrolled endlessly. Anytime I felt bored I’d scroll. When I woke up and when I when to bed. When I was in the shower. It’s addictive. That’s instant gratification of cured boredom destroys the brain. I went from 4-6 hrs a day on social media. To less than 10 min per day (and only to respond to customers). That compounded and reduced my screen time on other apps as well. Get off social media, it’s not good for you. This app fixed mine addiction. Thank you!Show lesschudfalco
What Screen Time should be.
The barebones version of this app is more than enough to genuinely make an impact on your screen time. Apple's integrated Screen Time feature isn't a realistic way to rework our additions to certain apps. The one minute feature often times isnt enough, and the 15 minute feature allows you to get sucked back into the content, putting you in an endless loop of "remind me in 15 minutes" until it's been hours. One Sec not only forces you to take a moment to make sure that you truly should be using the app, but with the free re-intervention feature, it's far more effective than Apple's own Screen Time.
I can't recommend this app enough. It is truly made with people in mind, and the free features are more than enough to make a tangible difference in your life.Show lessJuliet2000000
Useless.
I’m so annoyed. I was really hoping I could use this app to curb my spending. Unfortunately, it’s useless at best and infuriating to use at worst.
Not only are the directions to set up blocking for websites basically useless (I had to Google and find answers on Reddit to figure out how to actually add websites to one sec’s block list), they also don’t even work. Even if you enable the one sec safari extension, somehow figure out you’re supposed to go to each individual website and tap on the extension button to block that website, and manage to create a block list, it simply will not work.
One sec blocked only one website for me, and the button it presented me to go back to the one sec app did not work. So I was not able to complete the breathing exercise. The app didn’t even recognize that it had blocked the website. Simply refreshing the website let me back in. After that, the blocking didn’t work at all, for that or for any website that I had put on my block list. What on earth is the point of a blocking app that doesn’t actually block anything?
Thank god I canceled before my free trial was up. It would have been a huge waste of my money on a useless app that does nothing when it comes to one of its most advertised features. If you’re looking to block websites, this app is basically a scam (because blocking websites is a premium-only feature). Stay away. I wish I could give zero stars.Show lessExordiuum
This is fabulous
I have never felt I wanted to write a review before, but this app (one sec) is fabulous. You do need to watch the video to set it up (well, I did!) but it is so incredibly worth it to cut back on time wasted doom scrolling or social media. You can use it for any app and once you have tried the breathe function, there are brilliant other ones like a journal prompt which I’m finding really useful to redirect myself
Brilliant thank you!Show lessAndreaodbw261537
I cannot explain how helpful this is
This is honestly the app I have been waiting for my whole life. I’ve been wanting to make this app myself for the last year but man this is so great. A lot of other apps either have terrible UX or they have too little or too much friction in the ability to access apps. This one allows customisation and is so user friendly. I Don’t even write reviews ever but thank you and 10/10 recommendShow lessYenti P
I am over it 👎
I have loved this app since I began using it 6 months ago. It even inspired me to purchase my cousin an iPhone, knowing that I would be able to restrict their screen time and break the dopamine-induced doom scrolling that social media and games can oftentimes induce. When I was going to sign up for the family plan, I saw the price had increased from $25 to $40. For reference, the individual plan is $20. Honestly, if I only intended to add one additional user to the subscription, what incentive is there in not receiving a discount? Look at it this way: 2x individual plans = $40; 2x users on family plan = $40. What's the difference? This is really shortsighted and selfish of the developer, in my opinion, and it makes me want to not even renew the individual subscription. $40 is too much. The app is good and well thought out, but it isn't actually providing that grand of a solution to justify that price, even for multiple users. $25 actually motivated me to add users to the app, given it was only a $5 increase from what I was paying. Doubling the price only frustrates me and makes me want to protest the developer's greed, and it shows that their intent isn't to actually provide a solution and make that accessible to more people, but to squeeze every dollar from their user base. What a careless decision towards users. I'll be deleting the app.Show lesstaylrbrwr
Brilliant
This app is brilliant. I have it on all my iOS devices. I feel like most screen time reducing apps come and go, as half baked ideas put together over a weekend. This one is different. It feels as put together, or even more so, than Apple’s own screen time controls. It’s obvious the creator of this app made this for themselves as it applies to users’ real uses very well. I’m someone who uses various ways to make my devices more “dumb” or minimal. I mix this with feed blockers, screen time settings, greyscale, and not having social media apps on my phone. This is a very important piece of my already pretty elaborate puzzle.
This app can probably do more than I can grasp right now. I just use it to slow load apps and make them get progressively slower overtime. As my dopamine rush gets slower every time I wait for an app to load, I could just delete this app out of frustration. But I don’t. I feel like a kid knowing maybe it’s best if only mom can open the cookie jar. I also use the app for app blocking which is super cool.
My only request is if I could set a timer for app blocking. What I mean: set timer and in 25 minutes all apps on the list will be blocked. That way maybe when I need or want to go down the rabbit hole, there is going to be a hard cutoff upcoming that I can’t stop. Otherwise I’ll just willingly not stop and go down a binge, which I unfortunately too often do.Show lesssmart now
