Ascent Alternatives

Ascent is described as 'The main goal of Ascent is to build healthy phone usage habits in the long term. Ascent pauses destructive apps giving the ability to avoid procrastination loop from the start. App prevents undesired scrolling through news feeds and short videos' and is a anti procrastination tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ascent for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Android, Windows, iPhone and Google Chrome apps. The best Ascent alternative is ActivityWatch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ascent are Mindful : Focus & Screen Time, TimeScribe, LeechBlock and DigiPaws.

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  1. Wisdom Tree icon
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    Wisdom Tree is a tui concentration app. Inspired by the wisdom tree in Plants vs. Zombies which gives in-game tips when it grows, Wisdom Tree gives you real life tips when it grows. How can you grow the tree? by concentrating!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Use Android's Digital Wellbeing tools to find better balance with your phone. More productivity, more time unplugged, or more controls for the whole family.

    95 Digital Wellbeing alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  3. Focusbar icon
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    Bring your tasks to a focus with Focusbar - simple but powerful tool to help you work on one thing at a time. Stop multitasking and stay focused.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Quiet icon
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    Push distractions aside, silence disruptions and enter a zen like state of focus with Quiet for Mac OS X. With the push of a button, silence noisy applications and fade out all unwanted windows. It gives you that moment of peace you need to get on with work.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Stay Focused icon
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    Stay focused helps you focus by restricting the daily usage of selected apps to the selected time. Spending too much of time Social Networking or Messaging Apps? Focus it and it will help you reduce the usage.

    87 Stay Focused alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  6. App Usage is the easiest to use but powerful app/device usage management app. It provides the following key features: App usage history: gather the usage time about apps that you used Activity history: gather the time that you open apps -Play Store.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  7. Time Sink icon
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    Time Sink helps you track how you spend your time on your Mac. It automatically logs opened windows and applications, and keeps track of how long you've spent using things in total (i.e. running), and in the foreground (i.e. actively using).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Anti-Social icon
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    Anti-Social is a productivity application for Macs & Windows that turns off the social parts of the internet.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. Offtime icon
     5 likes

    Unplug yourself in a hyperconnected world.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  10. Temptation Blocker is a program that lets you lock yourself out of specific applications for a specified period of time. A window displays how much time remains. In order to unblock a program you must enter a 32 character string as a disincentive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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