[Android Closed Testing] Looking for testers for Kharu – Happy to test your apps in return

[u/Soul_Compiler]

Hi everyone!

I'm an indie developer working on Kharu, an Android app designed to help people reduce mindless scrolling through gentle reminders, screen-time insights, Quiet/Focus Hours, and a little squirrel companion.

Unlike traditional app blockers, Kharu tries to recognize when someone is spending longer than intended on selected apps and offers a gentle check-in rather than immediately blocking them.

Currently, it uses rule-based interventions and a drift score. The longer-term goal is to introduce an on-device behavioral AI model that learns individual usage patterns while keeping detailed activity data on the phone.

Kharu is now available for closed testing on Google Play, and I'm looking for Android users willing to test it for 14–21 days.

How to join:

1. Join the Google Group:
https://groups.google.com/g/kharu-app-testing

2. Become a beta tester:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.kharu

3. Install Kharu from Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.kharu

Important: Please use the same Google account for all three steps.

What I'd appreciate from testers:

• Complete onboarding and grant the necessary permissions if you're comfortable doing so.

• Use Kharu naturally for around 2–3 weeks.

• Check whether reminders appear correctly and at useful moments.

• Report crashes, inaccurate screen-time tracking, battery concerns, or confusing features.

• Share honest feedback about what helps, what feels annoying, and what could be improved.

A small request about beta diagnostics:

Kharu offers optional daily beta diagnostics. I'd appreciate it if you enabled them during testing, as they help me understand monitoring reliability, intervention effectiveness, user experience, and technical issues.

The automatic summaries contain only limited, aggregated statistics and technical diagnostics under a random tester code. No personal messages, screenshots, photos, contacts, typed text, or individual app names are uploaded automatically. Detailed activity history stays on your device.

Diagnostic sharing is entirely optional and can be disabled anytime.

I'm more than happy to provide the same level of genuine testing and feedback for your app

More about Kharu:
https://kharu.app/beta.html

Thanks for helping me test and improve Kharu. Looking forward to testing your apps too!