A new app that makes you literally touch grass while scrolling social media has gone viral, leaving many impressed.
Interest in social media has skyrocketed over the years, and apps like TikTok and Instagram are super easy to spend hours scrolling each day.
So easy, in fact, that TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, and Meta (the parent company of Instagram and Facebook), have faced lawsuits over its addictiveness.
To help curb doom-scrolling, iOS developer Rhys Kentish has created an iPhone app that literally makes you touch grass by blocking access to social media apps until you take a picture of yourself doing so.
Users impressed with app that makes you literally touch grass
“I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass,” said Kentish in his reveal post on X.
In the accompanying video showing the app, which is aptly called ‘Touch Grass,’ you can see the user tapping on a notification that opens it straight into the camera viewfinder.
Once you go outside and take a picture of yourself touching grass, it lets you unlock your apps for 15 minutes, 60 minutes, until sunset, or for the rest of the day.
You can already pre-save the app, which will become available on March 14, 2025. According to its App Store listing, you can purchase the ability to skip past having to touch grass and 50% of all profits from these purchases go towards UK Rewilding Projects.
“Reduce your screen time while helping restore natural habitats,” it reads.
The app quickly went viral across X and fans flocked to the replies to share their thoughts about the revolutionary computer program.
“If we’re being honest, a lot of people need this. Unfortunately, social media addiction is a real thing,” one user said.
Another asked: “Where has this been over the past few years?”
“What if there’s no grass outside and only snow What do I do… no app for the whole winter?” a third user commented.
This comes just after two AI chatbots left the internet stunned after they switched to a different language while in the middle of a conversation with each other.
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