Fewer
The launcher that counts how often you pick up your phone
149 followers
The launcher that counts how often you pick up your phone
149 followers
An Android launcher built around pickups, not screen time. A quiet home screen shows today's task, how many times you've looked at your phone (and how many for nothing) and the six tools you actually use. Time sinks get a pause. No server, no account, no ads.
@alisrc looking at number of time I have picked my phone will definitely help avoiding as much as possible. What I would also like to measure is how many Kilo meters/miles I have scrolled, and equivalent path on map, like "you have scrolled past Paris" xD. Btw Congrats for the launch!
@aryan_thakore Haha, "you've scrolled past Paris" would hit hard! 🗺️
Loved the idea, but as a rule, Fewer avoids background accessibility services to keep battery usage low and privacy at 100%. Measuring pixels/distance requires those invasive permissions.
My goal is to catch you at the gate (the pickup) before you start the marathon! Let me know how the pickup counter feels after your first full day!
That “for nothing” number would probably get me. I can already imagine checking it at the end of the day and wondering why I picked up my phone so many times.
@ezio_magarotto1 That's exactly the effect I was after, and I'll be honest about what it did to me: the first week the number just made me feel bad. Mine sat around 90, a third of them empty. What actually changed things wasn't the evening look — it was seeing it at 40 in the morning, on the screen I'd just unlocked, and thinking "again?"
So it's built to be a mirror, not a scoreboard. No colours, no streaks, no badge, no notification telling you off at 10pm. Just the number sitting under today's task, in the same grey as everything else. You can set a goal if you want ("34 / 40"), but nothing happens when you cross it, I took out every punishment I tried to add.
The seven-day page is where the end-of-day wondering goes: pickups per day, how many were empty, and where the time actually went.
"no server, no account" for something that's supposed to make you self conscious about pickups is the right call, it would feel weird if a habit tracker phoned home. is the pickup count purely from screen-on events at the OS level, or does it need accessibility permissions to tell a real pickup from you just checking the time on the lock screen
@galdayan No accessibility service, and no notification listener either, the app would have to ask for one of those and I'd rather not exist than ask.
It's Android's own UsageStatsManager event stream, read on resume: every time the home screen comes back, Fewer replays the events since it last looked. The pickup is the KEYGUARD_HIDDEN event, the lock screen going away, so checking the time without unlocking doesn't count at all; that never produces one. On a phone with no lock screen set, it falls back to screen-on events and the count becomes approximate.
"For nothing" is the same stream, no timer involved: an unlock where no app was resumed before the screen went off again. Stare at the home screen for a minute and lock it, still empty.
Side effect of doing it this way: there's no background service, the battery cost is zero, and the numbers are retroactive, the first sync fills in the previous seven days.
@alisrc that's a genuinely clean design, no permission you have to justify because the OS is already emitting the event for its own reasons. the retroactive seven-day backfill on first sync is the detail I like most, most habit trackers give you a blank slate on day one and call that fine.