Clearspace

Clearspace is the screen-time reduction app discussed in Trying to stay off your phone? There’s an app for that. In the episode, Maria Hollenhorst describes a user paying for Clearspace to interrupt habitual app use with pauses, breathing prompts, movement checks, and other friction before opening selected apps.

The app matters to the wiki because it turns Screen Time Friction into a consumer product. Rather than removing a phone or banning an app, Clearspace changes the moment before use: a person has to notice the impulse, wait, breathe, or move before continuing.

Connections

• Marketplace Tech and Maria Hollenhorst - source and reporter context.
• Digital Detox Economy - market category Clearspace represents.
• Screen Time Friction - design pattern used by the app.
• Addictive Interaction Design and Attention Industrialization - broader design problem Clearspace responds to.