You know that phone addiction has become a big issue when even Google and Apple are bundling time management tools into their handsets—Digital Wellbeing and Screen Time, respectively. There are now also a plethora of apps looking to help you cultivate a healthier relationship with your device.

One of the newer ones, which takes a slightly different approach to the norm, is Oh My Hours for iOS. (There's no sign of an Android version yet.) Rather than giving you a mass of menus and options to wade through, it simply splits each day into blocks of hours that you can either waste or use productively, then puts a black mark next to the hours during which your phone has distracted you.

It's simple, it's effective, and it just might work. Rather than seeing how long you spent on X and Instagram, you see the hours you've lost to social media algorithms and the infinite scroll. Here's how Oh My Hours works on your iPhone, plus some other apps to check out if you’re looking to develop healthier phone habits.

You can get started with Oh My Hours for free on iOS. But to really make the most of it, a $10-per-year or $20 lifetime payment is required. This lets you customize what counts as a “lost” hour or day, and it gives you access to month and year views, which provide the best insights into how you're spending time on your phone.

Here's how it works. First, you indicate which apps you consider distractions, either by category (social media apps and games, for example) or by selecting apps individually.

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