In contrast to Screen Time, one sec delays access to apps and websites instead of blocking them completely – this is fundamentally different than any other screen time tool you’ve tried before! Have you tried a digital detox? And it did not work, because you fall back into your habits immediately? Well here is the solution: one sec solves our unhealthy phone relationship at its roots: by making distracting apps less appealing, our brains lose interest to open them all the time without proper intention. The effectiveness of one sec has been confirmed in a peer-reviewed scientific study with the Max-Planck Institute and Heidelberg University: app usage drops by 57% on average! Long-term! Fight the social media algorithms and win back control over your phone usage & your subconsciousness! “one sec” uses Shortcuts Automation to toggle a deep breath animation whenever you open one of the configured apps (Instagram, Twitter, YouTube…). This breaks unconcious social media habits short-term (literally, as soon as you have set it up) and even helps long-term by adding more friction when opening these apps. Did you really want to open Instagram? Or was it just because you're bored waiting for your bus? This app helps you to reflect your actions, thoughts, and feelings; disrupting harmful social media habits with mindfulness. On top of that, “one sec” also contributes your mindful moments to the Health App via HealthKit. Especially for people with ADHD one sec is a great tool to gain back control for incredible focus and concentration. Integrations and collabs: - You can set up one sec to sync tasks with Structured, so you won't be able to access social media apps during ongoing unfinished tasks. - You can set up one sec to learn a new language with LENGO, so every time you open social media, you have to answer a handful of vocabularies. Available Subscription Options: one sec pro (annual / monthly / lifetime unlock) Terms (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://one-sec.app/privacy/
Size | 236.8 MB |
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Initial release | |
Price | Free |
Platforms | Mac, iPhone, and iPad |
Languages | Arabic, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese |
Category | Productivity |
Compatibility | |
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Mac | Requires macOS 14.0 or later. |
Apple iPod | Requires iOS 15.0 or later. |
iPad | Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. |
iPhone | Requires iOS 15.0 or later. |
Apple Vision | Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. |
App's data is regularly updated.
Last update:
Small, but important bug fixes: - Make sure that up-to-date target apps are available to be selected in Focus Filters. - Fixes an issue where turning on / off the Re-Intervention was not saved for individual target apps. - Push notification permission was not requested when setting up a delayed intervention. - App-based Max. Re-Intervention Time Interval was not permanently saved. - Re-Intervention would only allow you to choose 1 minute (or unlimited) in some rare cases. - Automations would not trigger, if the intervention for a target app had previously been turned off. Sorry about the inconvenience! On top of these bug fixes, this update of course also includes the big new features of the previous version: We’ve been working hard over the past year to offer two new intervention modes: - Delayed Intervention Mode: You can now set up a fixed delay after which the intervention should become active: so you can use a target app within boundaries (e.g. 2 minutes per hour) without getting interrupted - “Always ask” Intervention Mode: Every time you open a target app, you’ll be prompted to set the time you intend to spend on it, and only after the time has been consumed the target app will be shielded – and an intervention is required to unlock more time. These two new intervention modes have been highly requested features and are basically the “Re-Intervention without the initial breathing exercise”. We’ve run one scientific research project on this each with the Danish and German governments and are super happy with the results: This new mode is less frustrating while also being extremely effective in reducing time spent on target apps. one sec’s standard immediate intervention mode remains available unchanged, of course. On top of that, we’ve also improved many smaller aspects of one sec: - You can now add custom apps without knowing their URL schemes (but without that one sec can’t automatically open the target app unfortunately, so you have to proceed to the target app manually). - You can now set the Maximum Re-Intervention Time Interval on a per-app basis. - Intervention & Block Schedules now display the weekday selection in a localized manner (start of week). - Translation improvements throughout the app. - Lock time & time zone settings during strict blocks to prevent cheating. - LENGO integration accessibility improvements for voice over.