Fredericton-based Sapien has launched its Lightdogs app on Apple’s App Store, and people in several countries have downloaded the app in the hope it will ease them off their cell phone addictions.
Sapien’s mission is to encourage people to spend less time on their phones – and odd as it may sound, it’s invented a mobile app to accomplish the task.
Its new app lets people build up points the longer they stay off their phones, and trade those points for animated dogs. As of Monday, 200 people had downloaded the app with clusters of users appearing in such places as Belgium and Hong Kong.
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