Phone addiction often starts because people passively look at content, having no specific goal for this action.
When a user opens apps helping them solve tasks or grow a hobby — they change from a passive consumer to an active doer.
For example, instead of scrolling through social media, they can open an app to learn about a plant or find a lost device.
Such actions need attention and active participation, making self-control stronger.
Purposeful use of mobile devices reduces the time spent on bad interaction with the screen, making the time spent with the phone more meaningful, putting real interests and hobbies into the digital space, helping to manage the habit of constant distraction.
Coin ID Scanner
The coin values checker app helps to quickly and exactly identify a coin, only using the phone's camera.
Identification
The main function of the app is recognizing a coin from a photo → upload a ready photo from the gallery or take a new picture directly in the app. After recognizing the coin, the app shows a detailed information card.
Information
The coin card has full information, including the years of minting, the country of origin, the coin type, its edge (the side part), the composition, and physical details like diameter and weight. Also, the app gives estimated data, including the coin's approximate price.
Database and Collection Management
The app has a very large database, containing more than 187,000 coins from all over the world. This lets users find information even about rare coins.
Users can add identified coins to their collection, and for finding needed coins, a manual search, a search using the coin ID, or special "smart filters" are available, being featured in the paid version.
AI Helper
For extra help, an AI Coin Helper is available for users, answering questions about coins and collecting.
The app uses the Freemium model, being available on Android and iOS.
AI Plant Finder
This plant snap app is designed for plant lovers and gardeners, allowing users to quickly identify any plant and get advice on how to care for it correctly.
Identification
The user simply takes a picture, and the app finds the plant's type.
The app has a large database, including more than 300,000 plant species.
You can search for plants manually or by their ID.
Disease Diagnosis
If a plant looks unhealthy, the user can take its photo — the app will find the possible problem, suggest the causes of the issue, and also create a treatment plan and prevention methods, helping the plant to recover.
Care Tools
For each plant, you can set separate reminders for watering, trimming, adding fertilizer, or turning the plant.
Water and Light Calculation
Additionally, the "Water Calculator" is available in the app, calculating the amount of water needed.
For the calculation, you must enter the plant type, pot type, current temperature, and air humidity.
There is also a "Light Meter," using the phone's camera to measure the level of light in luxes.
Expert Advice
The AI Botanist helper is also available for users, giving expert advice on plant care.
The app uses the Freemium model, being available on Android and iOS platforms.
Number Tracker
The Number Tracker app is a tool made to track a phone number and ensure the safety of close people, such as family, children, or older relatives.
Circle Creation and Tracking
The app allows users to create "Circles Creation" — you can add friends or family members to these circles for sharing their current location with each other, allowing users to always know where others are, ensuring safety for everyone.
Movement History
An important function is viewing Movement History, saving data about where and when the user was. This allows checking routes and movements during the day.
Additional Functions
The app offers a "Fast Check-In" function, allowing the user to quickly mark their current location on the map.
All other members of their circle will see this mark immediately.
You can also mark important places on the map, but the free version limits the number of places.
Find Devices
The "Find Devices" function allows not only adding devices to favorites but also tracking them.
The app shows the signal strength from the device, helping a lot to find a lost phone or another item.
Virtual Helper
The app has an AI Virtual Helper, answering questions, helping with settings, and requests.
There is also a Fast Request by Number function.
The app uses the Freemium model, being available on Android and iOS.
Conclusion
The described apps, focusing on hobbies, safety, and personal tasks, are a good choice instead of useless and endless scrolling of phone content — instead of simply taking attention away, tools like Coin ID Scanner, AI Plant Finder, and Number Tracker give users the chance to reach real goals in their lives.
For collectors, this means exact coin identification; for gardeners, it is plant care and diagnosis; and for families, it is ensuring mutual safety and quickly sharing location information.
When the phone is used to check a plant's health, find a device, or confirm one's location, this action is finished and limited in time.
The user opens the app, does the task, and closes it.
This cycle is very different from endless viewing, creating addiction.
Useful apps change the time spent with the screen into an investment in real interests or well-being, making the mobile device a useful helper, not a source of constant distraction.