Crabapple Technologies, LLC is a technology and innovation company based in Pennsylvania, USA, founded by Evan Hohlfeld. Our mission is to help people—especially students—thrive by solving the online attention crisis.
We created Wedge because nothing else worked to build online study habits, and paper-based learning was not an option in our schools.
Education technology can be powerful. But it can be inseperable from the distractions and habit-forming content on the open Internet that cause brainrot, doomscrolling, anxiety, and addiction. This is one factor in the decade-long decline in learning and mental health outomes in US schools.
We hope our solutions will work for your family, too.
Tell us about your challenges, and we can build tools to help.
US schools have experienced a decade-long decline in learning and mental health outcomes.
One factor is one-to-one device policies: It can be hard for students to stay focused on digital schoolwork when this work comes bundled with limitless Internet content engineered to distract, redirect, and habituate their attention to view ads.
Wedge is a tool that detects distraction and trains your mind to focus better while working online. It uses AI and behavioral techniques to modify your Web experience in response to your actions to reinforce on-task activity and to add friction to off-task activity.
Wedge can also help you build a community around your attention goals — from attention interval training and habit change to persuading school districts to change.