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Trying to stay off your phone? There’s an app for that

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The digital detox economy is estimated to grow to $20 billion by 2032. The gamification that got you addicted to your phone might be the key to putting it down.

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Have you tried putting your phone down recently?

0:35.1

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

0:44.4

How many of you have spend less time looking at your phone on your New Year's resolutions list. According to

0:56.5

Healthcare Data Company Harmony Healthcare IT, the average American spends around five hours and

1:03.0

16 minutes on their phone every day, and more than half of us are looking to cut down on that

1:08.5

usage to improve mental and physical health. Well,

1:12.1

turns out there's an app for that. Actually, quite a few apps. And market researchers have

1:18.1

estimated this so-called digital detox industry could swell to almost $20 billion by

1:25.2

2032. Marketplaces Maria Hollenhorst has more.

1:29.7

About a year and a half ago, a friend of mine told me about an app she downloaded to help curb her screen time.

1:35.6

It turns on a camera and it watches me.

1:38.9

Like camera physically tracking your movements.

1:41.3

And I have to do either push-ups or squats or something like that for every minute of free use

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