Comparison
Not too much, not too little.
We think today's solutions are either too restrictive or not restrictive enough. Some take away almost everything, and people end up giving them up because they need their phone. Others keep everything, and you get around them in two taps. Livetime sits in the middle: you keep everything that's useful to you, and what sucks you in is reined in at the one place you can't avoid, your home screen.
Too restrictiveLivetimeNot restrictive enough
What's out there
Every solution, at a glance.
- Physical objects
- Timed lockboxes, Brick, Bloom, Unpluq
- Feature phones
- Nokia, HMD
- Dumbphones
- Light Phone, Punkt
- E-ink smartphones
- Mudita Kompakt
- Locked-down smartphones
- Balance Phone, Fairphone Moments
- Phone settings
- Screen Time, Digital Wellbeing, grayscale
- App blockers
- Opal, AppBlock, ScreenZen, one sec, Forest
- Minimalist home screens
- Olauncher, Niagara
- Browser extensions
- Unhook, UnTrap, SocialFocus