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Currently, I use the Moment App on the iOS to keep track of how much time I spend on my phone and it has been immensely useful. Though it only captures my usage and can't actively help me reduce my smartphone usage.

I love the ability to batch up the notifications. In my ideal world, I would get notifications at 8AM, 12pm, 5pm and 9pm. And that's all.

I am jealous of the Android platform that it is possible to create an app like Siempo. I don't think iOS has an API to create a comparable experience.

I wonder what plans do Siempo team have for iOS.

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Moment is great! Android gives devs the freedom to be so much more than just a self control app - we can reimagine the interface from scratch.

We'd love to be on iOS, but b/c of strict permissions we are unable to do the majority of what we have built in the beta so far. A number of our users have actually switched from iOS to Android, not just for Siempo but also for apps that let you set SMS autoresponders, block apps with geofencing, and other cool things that won't be possible unless Apple radically changes their interface or permissions.

> I love the ability to batch up the notifications. In my ideal world, I would get notifications at 8AM, 12pm, 5pm and 9pm. And that's all.

Couldn't you do this manually by silencing your phone except for alarms, and then setting vibrate-only alarms at those times?

Alarm goes off, you check your phone and deal with any notifications you have so far, and then you go back to ignoring it.

For me, this would functionally be no different than just deciding I wasn't going to check.

Alarms would make sense if I had trouble remembering to check if I didn't check constantly, but the problem is the compulsion to thoughtlessly reach for my phone to check for notifications every few minutes. If I could batch up notifications therefore making the act of grabbing my phone and looking at it pointless, that seems like it would have a real impact.

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