OnePlus' Digital WellPaper app, launched today, lets you track your app usage in a more subtle and less intrusive way, with three wallpaper options that change when you unlock your phone.

It divides its apps into six categories: social, lifestyle and communication, entertainment, games, information and business, and tools. Each category corresponds to a color in the wallpapers, and the colors become more or less prominent depending on the apps you use. The wallpaper options are Composition, which shows a graphic inspired by the works of Mondrian; Glow, which presents blurred colors; and Radial, a graphic with neon colored circles.

According to OnePlus, the app generates the wallpaper once when you unlock the phone, so the app is not constantly updating the graphic and thus it does not consume a lot of the phone's battery.

This is an initiative, according to OnePlus, aimed at digital well-being, a topic that has gained attention recently with people spending even more time in front of screens because of pandemic. It's a way to monitor your own mobile usage habits. Together with Digital WellPaper, OnePlus has created a internet portal with more information and recommendations for digital wellbeing tools.

Android 7.0 and above users can also download Digital WellPaper is available on Google Play, not just for OnePlus users, and the app is free. OnePlus says it hopes the app will help users “better visualize and understand their digital habits.” You can also see more details, such as the exact time spent using apps in each category, in an option within the app itself.

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