If you spend enough time doomscrolling on social media and arguing with bots, you may have heard the slang phrase, “Go touch grass!” It’s basically, “Get offline, and spend some time in the real world.”
There’s a brand new app called “Touch Grass,” and it forces you to LITERALLY go outside and touch grass before going on social media.
Here’s how it works: Touch Grass asks you to choose TWO apps that are your biggest time sucks . . . that you WANT to limit. It then blocks those apps.
The only way to unlock them is to take a picture of yourself outside . . . actually touching grass . . . and submitting it. Then, you’ll choose how much time you can have on each restricted app.
There are a couple caveats. (In addition to whether you can CHEAT by just uploading the same saved grass photo every day.)
Touch Grass is only available as a pre-order now. It doesn’t come out until this Friday . . . and it’s only for iOS in the Apple app store.
The developer plans to release an Android app in the future. And he also wants to add ways to let users touch snow . . . sand . . . and other kinds of environments. (Maybe CEMENT if you live in an apartment downtown?)
Another thing: The app is free, but upgrading it will cost $6 a month or $50 annually. The premium version will let you block an unlimited number of apps, give you periodic “skips,” and provide detailed screen time reports.
As of last week, the app supposedly had around 30,000 pre-orders.
(CNET)
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