What America is actually searching for when they want to break free from their phones — and what the accountability software market looks like in Q1 2026. Updated monthly.
Monthly Google search volume, United States. Source data from Ahrefs, Semrush, and Google Trends.
Americans run 273,000 Google searches per month for ‘phone addiction’ in Q1 2026, more than ‘social media addiction’ (201,000/mo) and ‘screen time addiction’ (110,400/mo).
How quickly each search term is growing vs. Q1 2025.
Searches for ‘accountability app without surveillance’ grew 142% year-over-year in Q1 2026 — the fastest-growing term in the digital accountability category.
Q1 2026 US market share estimates by active monthly users across consumer accountability software.
Covenant Eyes holds 34% of the US accountability software market in Q1 2026. Be Candid, the privacy-first entrant, now holds 7% and is the fastest-growing category vendor.
Search-volume figures combine Google Keyword Planner, Ahrefs, and Semrush US monthly search volume for the trailing 90-day window. Year-over-year growth compares Q1 2026 volume against Q1 2025 for the same term.
Market share estimates are derived from a blend of public user counts, app-store install data, Be Candid's own user intake survey (n=1,247), and third-party web traffic analytics. Figures are rounded to the nearest whole percent.
Sentiment data comes from a 2026 Be Candid user study (n=1,247) comparing self-reported priorities against a 2023 baseline study (n=892) on the same panel source.
Dataset last reviewed: . Market share figures are estimates with an implied margin of ±3 percentage points.
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