Screen Shot 2014-06-18 at 4.13.36 PMWhile many of us joke that we’re addicted to our phones, a new app is about to shed light on how true that may be.

Designed to facilitate a healthier balance between real life and digital life, Moment tracks how much you use your phone each day, helps you create daily limits on that usage, and offers “occasional nudges” when you’re going overboard.

To get started, allow the free iOS download to run on your phone for a day or so. It will quietly track your behavior, then let you know how much time you’re spending playing Candy Crush, responding to emails, or scrolling through social media feeds. But be warned: When Moment creator Kevin Holesh asked people how much time they spend on their phones, they underestimated the amount by a whopping FIFTY PERCENT. The real numbers may shock you.

Once Moment gauges how much time you really spend on your phone, it will encourage you to set a reasonable daily limit–say 90 minutes. From then on, it will continue to track your daily habits and ping you when you reach the halfway mark. (“You’ve been on your iPhone for 45 minutes,” for example.) Should you reach your prescribed limit, the app will nudge you once more before shutting down the phone.

Holesh says he built Moment after realizing how much his digital dependence was affecting his real-life relationships. After moving in with his fiancée, their default way of unwinding at the end of the day was to scroll through their iPhones instead of spending quality time together, he explains in this blog post.

The goal is not about getting you to “put down your phone forever and go live in the woods,” Holesh notes on Moment’s website. It’s about curtailing digital habits and obsessions. The app also has an optional function that tracks where you’ve been throughout the day, to ensure that you truly unplug rather than move your browsing to another device. Best of all, after you set up Moment the first time, you never need to open it again. The app will simply run in the background, alerting you when you’re going over your daily limits.

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