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Complete Gamechanger, Bye SM Addiction
This app is helping me immensely with ending my social media addiction after multiple failed attempts to for way too long. I usually don’t write reviews but felt compelled to due to this positive experience.
The external structure this app provides for quitting social media is exactly what I’ve been looking for. By making me wait before using configured apps (for me Reddit, Instagram etc.), it removes the dopamine hit I get from instantly accessing sm and gives me the chance to say no instead of being sucked in which has helped so much.
Aside from that, the best thing about one sec is that it shows how many hours it’s been since I’ve last used social media apps. From this, I’ve been setting goals around the number of hours and rewards for when I surpass a milestone such as 100 hours no Instagram. Due to this external/internal structure, I’m FINALLY making progress with quitting social media. I highly recommend this app to anyone trying to quit too!
Devs, if you’re open to suggestions, I’d love to see the Last Use metrics in the configured app summary or page in one sec and especially in the one sec widget. Thank you for making this app!Show lessProm night dumpster baby7764
No Words Can Describe This One
I have so many feelings and emotions to express but I’ll keep it brief. I don’t ever review apps, but I just had to with this one. You already know how awful social media and smartphone addiction can be. We’re fighting a psychological war against our devices everyday with very little control over our time. For some, it has become a life-destroying experience, taking away time, decreasing productivity, increasing the risk of depression and more. It’s also impossible to simply delete and remove completely because of how embedded they are in our lives.
That’s where this app comes in, to curb our impulsive behaviors that make us doom scroll to no end. Days upon days I’ve lost before I had this app, and I wish I was joking. Although extraordinarily simple, the intervention feature of this app has instantly shown me how often I truly use these apps.
There have been times where I close the app due to intervention, and open it again just seconds later not realizing that I’m being stopped multiple times.
Has my memory deteriorated this much? It’s eye opening. The sheer level of benefit this app has is beyond anything I’ve experienced before, and I’d like to thank the developers for creating it.
Thanks for bringing time back into my life, I can finally enjoy doing other things instead of mindlessly scrolling away like a zombie. What a world we live in.
GET THIS APP NOW! I also hope Apple makes intervention a default feature at some point.Show lessEchoration
Developer Response
WOW!!! Thank you so much for your beautiful words here! :) You are speaking the truth 100% - and we love to hear that one sec helped you so much! We appreciate your rating and hope that you will have a lot of time soon :) -See you in the real worldHighly Recommend
Downloaded this app maybe two years ago with only a couple thousand reviews so it’s awesome to see it blossom like this. This is my first and only review on the App Store just because I love this product so much. As someone with ADD this app is a godsend and I happily use the Pro version. Seriously this app has saved me hours of time and I am truly grateful to the developers. Not only that but you’re able to maintain digital privacy as your data is the harvested and/or sold which is unfortunately a luxury in today’s world. To anyone w ADD or ADHD or any kind of attention issues or executive dysfunction this app is a game changer.Show lessAnonymous player46
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your review! We love to hear that one sec helped you and you recommend it! :) Awesome that you use one sec for so long! We appreciate your words and hope that you will have another great years with it. :)Great idea, helpful app, got annoying quickly
I really liked having a chance to breathe and think before automatically opening an app, helped me cut down on my usage quick! But the ability to switch between apps is a premium feature, meaning that you have to stay on the app unless you want to see the Onesec waiting screen again. I’d often forget and it just made it aggravating.
The app has other cool premium features, like changing that waiting screen into a little game and much more. I definitely think it’s worth it if you’d like to try it, and maybe pay for it if you’re so inclined.
Overall, It’s a great idea, helpful app, that I wish had one feature included I’m the free version, the ability to switch between apps.Show lessColt CC
great app
i instantly feel better and ready to get back to studying 😄U.N.G
Works well
Doesn’t allow you to move off the app and reopen it within a grace period without paying.
Opened Instagram, got presented with the delay, then before I could enter it kicked me into one sec to ask me to rate/review - which restarted the Instagram delay. 🙃TheIansanity
Wow
This app is pretty great, easy to use and a good reminder to not waste time!Roxyross2
Amazing
Great idea!! I get so distracted whenever I pick up my phone. Automatically go to social media even if that’s not the reason I went on my phone in the first place. Being able to pause and think twice is everything in this day and age. Just taking a deep breathe helps so much with my anxiety! I’m grateful that my friend put my onto this app. Setting up wasn’t the easiest but also doable if you just minimize the app screen as the video is playing.
Thanks!Show lesscharl.cymru
Lifechanger!
As someone with ADHD, who finds it incredibly difficult to finish work, this app is amazing and a lifechanger! It helps me stay off of Instagram (which makes me depress every time I get on it) and it also helps me get work done! Not only that, it's amazing in the sense that it helps you think about if you really need to be on social media/websites instead of doing work.
There is one thing that I wish would be possible: to be able to sync apps and websites through a single account across different platforms. I want to be able to set up interventions on one device (e.g. iphone) and have it automatically transfer over to my ipad and mac.
Thank you for such an amazing app!Show lessphotosynnthesis
Helps fantastic with productivity!
Often I find myself struggling with focusing on a long task and end up drifting away into my phone far too easily when I want a break. This app has been a great way to control the use of my time appropriately rather that mind numbing scrolling.
I’ve only been using this app for one day and already have found that my productivity has increased. It’s very easy to navigate once you’ve got it up and running, no problems as of yet.
I’m utilising this app that integrates to a planner app that I also use and found this to be a seamless process.Show lessDDT_54
