This App Brutally Shames You by Tracking How Many Hours You’ve Lost to Scrolling

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You know that phone addiction has become a big issue when even Google and Apple are bundling time management tools into their handsets—Digital Wellbeing and Screen Time, respectively. There are now also a plethora of apps looking to help you cultivate a healthier relationship with your device.

One of the newer ones, which takes a slightly different approach to the norm, is Oh My Hours for iOS. (There's no sign of an Android version yet.) Rather than giving you a mass of menus and options to wade through, it simply splits each day into blocks of hours that you can either waste or use productively, then puts a black mark next to the hours during which your phone has distracted you.

It's simple, it's effective, and it just might work. Rather than seeing how long you spent on X and Instagram, you see the hours you've lost to social media...

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