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Key info about Dumb Phone.
Smart Phone.
Dumb Phone.
Dumb Phone helps you avoid distractions and dopamine hits on your iPhone.
Key Features
Dumb Phone transforms your iPhone into a minimalism styled phone.
Simplify Your Home Screen; replace colorful app icons, wallpapers, and pesky notification badges with simple text buttons
Break Bad Phone Habits; use your phone without being coerced into easy distractions when you pick it up, and forgetting why you needed it in the first place
Quick App Access; select essential apps that you frequently access so they’re always a tap away
Style Your Minimalist Phone; choose from a Dark or Light theme, the text font, size, positioning, color, and more
Create Multiple App Launchers; make one for work and another for leisure, then easily switch between them so you only see important apps during the day
Automate With Shortcuts; link Dumb Phone’s shortcut actions to automations and seamlessly adjust your minimalist home screen
Who is this app for?
Dumb Phone is purpose-built for people who want to reduce cognitive distractions that come with owning the modern day smartphone, by applying a minimalist styled user interface.
After adding the Dumb Phone widget and wallpaper to your Home Screen, and selecting your essential apps, Dumb Phone completely transforms your device into the helpful utility your iPhone was intended to be - not a doom scrolling machine.
It lets you quickly open your most important apps with just one hand, even with the biggest iPhone in-hand, since everything is in reach of your thumb.
You can also create multiple app launchers to show specific apps during the day, such as work related apps.
Why did I create this?
It began as a feature for my app focusedOS to further reduce distractions on iOS, and follow the popular dumb phone / minimalist phone movement.
I wanted to permanently reduce the amount of visual distractions when I pick up and use my phone, such as colorful app icons and wallpapers, since I would always naturally be drawn towards them.
After creating Dumb Phone and using it every day for over a month, my screen time has nosedived. I notice I’m only opening apps if I really need to use them, since I no longer see their icon and associate it with the dopamine rush I’d get when tapping it.
Every app is just text on a page. Sleek and minimal.
Pricing
Dumb Phone is free to try. Folks can upgrade for $2.99/month, $9.99/year, or $24.99/one-time to gain access to all functionality & configurations.
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