Wellspent: Replace Scrolling

I would gladly pay for the full access to this app, but already on the free version there are bugs and I'm reading that paid users also have these issues. Bugs being that it doesn't nudge you as often as you ask, often giving you longer time to scroll that what you are setting --> big hard limit for me, as that is the primary reason I want to use the app. For it to judge me every x min to get out of Instagram. I look forward to the day it starts to work - then I will commit to the paid version.

This works okay. Free plan allows you to connect it to 1 app. Functionally speaking, it works well. But the messages are repetitive and some incorrect. I’ve set mine to remind me every 5 minutes I spend on the selected app. But several times in row it will say “you’ve spend 15 minutes here today” when that number should clearly have gone up. It ends up annoying me that it’s incorrect rather than encouraging me to stop.

helped me combat my phone addiction, apple screentime reminders never worked but wellspent does:)

Edit: Unfinished product and false advertising I tried reaching out to their support and they basically told me that the streak and average feature is something they are working on - so I basically paid for a product that doesn’t offer what I paid for. Also, they have apparently issues with getting the synchronisation to work. Not at all impressed and pretty disappointed that I paid for this app and didn’t get what I expected to find. Will look for alternatives instead. - I’m currently on the free trial and while I generally enjoy the app, I don’t think I’ll renew to a paid subscription. I would love seeing an overview of averages over time just like you have with iOS screen time. There seems to be at least a weekday overview? It’s being displayed in one of the promo photos but is not something that showed up in the app for me. I don’t get why all features wouldn’t be available in the trial, as that’s supposed to give you a taste of the real deal. Without averages/streaks/etc, it’s basically just a paid alternative to iOS Screen Time. The only difference/improvement to ST is the tone of voice and the fact that it’s set budgets and not collective screen time (ST does count my ebook time or work-related time, which Wellspent doesn’t).

I just paid for a monthly subscription, but now I don’t know how to activate it on the app. Hoping you can help?

It is the only thing that has succeed in helping me to limit my screen time. And it does so in a really kind, fun and reflective way. Thanks so much!

You have to set everything up before it’s clear that you have to pay to use the app. No light version available, and not clear in the “buy in app” information. Set everything up and the ends up deleting the app.

Woke up and needed to access a different App immediately only to find my screen locked. It took scrolling through several pages to unlock it when time was of the essence.

This app worked great the first week or two, my screen time decreased considerably, then I noticed I was not getting notifications consistently. The type of notifications also changed and they became much easier to simply click and bypass (used to be you had to press and hold- which I found much more effective in making me pause and choose to log off). I wrote customer service and was told there was nothing they could do. Then I stopped getting regular notifications. They only popped every 30 minutes even though I set it to 5 minutes. The ap stopped logging how much time I spent on social media. Then it stopped working for days or weeks at a time. Now the app is down completely while they work through “technical difficulties.” Yikes. Customer service has been unhelpful and will not process a refund. Do not waste your money on this app!

Ok so I was only using it for a week after I started paying for it and it was locking me out of the apps that I told it to restrict and I wasn’t on them for very long and I had no indication when I could access them again. Also time spent on the apps isn’t well calculated and I cannot go back and see the times from previous days. Just feel like $60 is not a justifiable price, just wish I would have fully realized that before the week was up.