Have you tried putting your phone down recently? From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

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

According to Healthcare Data Company Harmony Healthcare IT, the average American spends around five hours and 16 minutes on their phone every day,

and more than half of us are looking to cut down on that usage

to improve mental and physical health. Well, turns out there's an app for that. Actually,

quite a few apps, and market researchers have estimated this so-called digital detox industry

could swell to almost $20 billion by 2032.

Marketplace's Maria Hollenhorst has more.

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

It turns on a camera and it watches me.

Like camera physically tracking your movements.

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

of the apps that I have chosen to lock.

I know.

Terrifying.

Her name's Hannah Palma, and the app is called ClearSpace.

You can tell it how much you want to use certain apps, like Instagram or TikTok,

and it will prompt you to do an exercise or take a deep breath each time you open them.

Oh, and it costs $50 a year, which Hannah pays gladly.

I realize, like, it's kind of silly that I'm paying monthly for my phone,

and then I'm paying yearly to not use it.

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