TouchGrass AI — a little less scrolling, a little more living

Description and use

TouchGrass AI is an open‑source, AI‑powered wellness app that offers daily outdoor quests and personalized suggestions to help users reduce screen time and improve digital well‑being.

Problem

People spend excessive time on screens and lack motivation to step outside and engage in real-world activities.

Outcome

TouchGrass AI provides a structured, gamified approach to reduce screen time by offering daily outdoor quests, AI‑generated suggestions, and progress tracking, while remaining functional without AI through built‑in quests.

Workflow

• 1. User opens the app and sees a daily quest or AI‑generated suggestion.
• 2. User completes the quest and records field notes.
• 3. App awards XP, updates streaks, and logs progress.
• 4. User can create custom quests or view built‑in fallback quests when AI is unavailable.

Evidence

we spend so much time looking at screens that sometimes we forget to experience the world outside them.

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touchgrass ai is an open-source, ai-powered wellness app that encourages people to step away from their screens and reconnect with the real world through small, achievable activities.

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instead of just telling you to spend less time online, it gives you little outdoor quests to complete in real life.

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i used the following technologies: frontend: react, vite, and css; backend: python and fastapi; open-source ai: qwen 2.5 3b through ollama; storage: browser local storage; deployment: vercel for the frontend and render for the backend.

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using an open-weight model such as qwen 2.5 3b through ollama gives developers the freedom to experiment with local inference, customize model behavior, and explore different models without depending on a paid proprietary ai api.

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