Originally published on February 6, 2015 Kevin Holesh, the developer behind the Apple app Moment, and Mrigaen Kapadia, the developer of the Android app BreakFree, have been helping us keep track of our progress during the Bored and Brilliant challenge week. But it's not an exact science. They're working on different operating systems that allow different access to time-tracking apps. This likely explains why the averages for Apple devices have been so different from the Android ones. Here they answer your questions about the apps: BreakFree/Moment seems to be counting time when my screen is off. Mrigaen with BreakFree: It's understandable if this happens once in while, since Android could have killed BreakFree's background service due to low resources. This could lead to a higher count. Let's say that you open your screen at 9:00 AM and BreakFree is running. The app records the time and starts the counter. But then while you are still working on your phone, your phone memory resources run low and Android needs to kill the BreakFree process. Now you switch off your screen at 9:10 AM. But because the BreakFree process was killed, it will not record the screen being turned off. Android or you restart the BreakFree process again. You open your screen at 9:15 AM and switch it off at 9:20 AM, the BreakFree process will record the 9:20 screen off against the 9:00 screen on since it missed the 9:10 screen off. So, instead of counting phone usage as two sessions of 10 (9:00 - 9:10) and 5 (9:15 - 9:20) minutes, it will be counted as one session of 20 (9:00 - 9:20) minutes. And that's how you could get over counting.This could also happen if you frequently kill BreakFree from the Task Manager, please avoid doing that.BreakFree does not count phone usage based on apps running in the background, it uses the screen on and screen off times only. Kevin with Moment: Sometimes Moment isn't perfect at detecting your phone use. One thing you can do to make sure these weird results don't happen again is to put your phone in your pocket upside down (top facing the ground) with the screen facing your leg when you're not using it. Also, you can place your phone laying flat on a table with the screen down. Moment is designed to specifically ignore those two positions. That should really help eliminate any weird results you're getting with Moment incorrectly detecting your phone use. If you want Moment to be super accurate (and save a ton of battery), the best thing to do would be to set up a passcode or Touch ID to unlock your device. You can do that from your Settings app > Touch ID & Passcode. That will make Moment 100% accurate in tracking all of the time your phone is unlocked, and skip the entire calibration process Moment goes through at the beginning of using the app. If you have a passcode or Touch ID set up and Moment still doesn't seem correct, check out your Settings app > Touch ID & Passcode, and see the "Require Passcode" setting. If that's anything other than "Immediately" your iPhone remains unlocked even after you turn the screen off with the power button. Moment counts all of the time your iPhone is unlocked, so it adds 5 (or so) minutes onto every time you unlock your iPhone. That setting needs to be set to "Immediately" in order for Moment to track your iPhone use accurately. Moment doesn’t seem to be counting all of my time. Kevin with Moment: Sometimes it takes a few days, an...