Hands Off

What it does

Hands Off is a desktop app that intercepts nail biting, skin picking, and other BFRBs in real time. It runs locally on your device, pops up when your hands get near your face, and gradually retrains your brain. All without sending data to the cloud.

Quit nail biting for good with Hands Off, the AI desktop app that detects and interrupts unconscious nail biting in real-time. Works on Mac and Windows.

Hands Off is a desktop app that helps you quit nail biting, skin picking, and hair pulling by detecting unconscious habits through your webcam and interrupting them instantly. This demo shows how Hands Off uses real-time AI to detect nail biting . Watch as the app monitors hand movements through your webcam. The moment hands move toward the face to bite or pick, Hands Off interrupts instantly with a full-screen alert to stop the habit before it starts. The video shows the login screen, home dashboard, live detection and interruption pop-ups. Besides that you can customize your settings for all five BFRBs (nail biting, skin picking, eyebrow or eyelash pulling, and nose picking.) It also…from handsoffapp.com

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