Dumb Phone

Name: Dumb Phone
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Turn your iPhone into a dumb phone.

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Turn your iPhone into a dumb phone.

5.0•1 review•

372 followers

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Want to avoid easy distractions when you pick up your iPhone? Dumb Phone has your back by transforming it into a minimalist style phone to reduce phone addiction, swapping flashy icons / colors with a sleek and minimal Home Screen for accessing essential apps. This removes the addictive dopamine from your phone which helps you think twice about why you just picked it up without realising, like we always do each day!

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Dumb Phone

Maker

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Hey everyone, I'm Michael. Back again with another exciting launch!! 👋 Introducing Dumb Phone - an app that transforms your iPhone into a minimalist style phone. ☎️ After I launched focusedOS last month, which hides all distractions on Mac with one click, I'm bringing that same vibe to iOS with Dumb Phone. It will swap out flashy icons & colors with a sleek and minimal Home Screen that helps you avoid easy distractions and dopamine hits. 🚨 I've been using this every day for the last month and my screen time has nosedived. When I pick my phone I don't open random things anymore and it has completely changed how I interact with it. Here's a few key things it does: 👉 simplify the home screen; replace colorful app icons, wallpapers, and pesky notification badges with simple text buttons 👉 quick app access; select essential apps that you frequently access so they’re always a tap away 👉 style your new home screen; choose from a Dark or Light theme, the text font, size, positioning, color There's more, such as shortcuts support for adjusting which apps are displayed so you can tie this in with any automations. Try it out for yourself, add the apps that you use most of the time, and let me know what you think! I've tried to include many popular + indie apps so you can easily add them to your new Home Screen. 😊 It's free to use with a trial period, has a lifetime option to perpetually upgrade, which you can upgrade at the big existing discount to celebrate this launch. I am especially excited to launch Dumb Phone on Product Hunt today after the incredible feedback it's received on Twitter the past 48 hours. 👉 https://x.com/michael_tigas/stat... Drop a comment below if you have any questions or feedback and I'll get back to y'all. Thank you so much! 🙏 🚀 PS: If you have an Android phone, sorry! Search up Minimalist Phone instead. They are doing incredible work over there. 😁

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2yr ago

@teeeeeegz I know I'm going to love this app so much! Congrats in advance on the launch. I'm confident that the onboarding experience will be so well-crafted and will help me fight my phone addiction!

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2yr ago

mgmate

@teeeeeegz I have principles I see things that built for sun — I support

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2yr ago

Hurrayy

@teeeeeegz Ohhh, this is sooo good! Congrats on the launch! Definitely a game-changer for productivity. It’s like bringing back the simplicity of the old Nokia 3310 – just what we need to cut through the noise and focus on what really matters (though I might miss playing Snake).

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2yr ago

Dumb Phone

Maker

@kostyabolsh Love it 🫡

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2yr ago

Dumb Phone

Maker

@divy_divya_c Thanks Divya! I've received a lot of incredible feedback so far for the onboarding flow in particular. Thank you 🙏

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2yr ago

Mindr - Mindful Reminders

💎 Pixel perfection

I've tried it for a couple of days now and it actually seems to stick. I'm so surprised because none of these focus apps/hacks ever worked for me. But this one is so effective and yet looks sooo good that I don't want to get rid of it anymore. Caught myself a couple of times already where I wanted to check some random shit on my phone but locked it again because there was just no instant stupid app for me to tap apart from my essentials. Absolutely love it and definitely gonna keep using it. Well done Michael!!!

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2yr ago

Dumb Phone

Maker

@fvates Fantastic to hear Florian! Sounds like the blandness/lack of color on the home screen is actually making a meaningful difference. Here's my similar experience: My phone normally sits on my desk since i'm an app developer, but sometimes when i'm waiting for a task to complete I notice I pick my phone up out of habit and try to do something exciting, which is usually on one of the social apps with a colorful icon. But with the blandness applied I see the text of an app name instead and that's enough to make me second guess whether I should tap it. The magic works 🔥 Hope you continue to enjoy using Dumb Phone!!

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2yr ago

Looks like a ripoff of this app: https://apps.apple.com/app/on-po...?

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2yr ago

Dumb Phone

Maker

@alexjonsson Perhaps you could argue the same for the other apps that came before that one, where it took inspiration from. Dumb Phone was going to be another tab in focusedOS until it was too big to be self contained (since focusedOS is essentially DP minimalism for Mac), and I wouldn't be able to market it properly. It takes inspiration from the sleek + well designed Android app called Minimalist Phone. See the maker shoutouts above for more details about that app.

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2yr ago

@teeeeeegz hope people rip off your work and call it „inspiration“ 😂

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2yr ago

The ability to choose between Dark and Light themes, and customize text font, size, positioning, and color sounds great. Are there preset themes or complete freedom to customize each element?

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2yr ago

Dumb Phone

Maker

@xing_lee It's pretty flexible in what you can customise! You're either going to mainly create a light or dark theme. 🙂

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2yr ago

HabitKit - Habit Tracker

💎 Pixel perfection

I love this app so much, congrats on the launch, Michael. The onboarding experience is so well-crafted and helped me to fight my phone addiction!

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2yr ago

Dumb Phone

Maker

@sebastianroehl great to hear you appreciated the onboarding flow! I tried my best to make a tedious set up process into something simple, so that makes me happy 😊 Thank you for the support, hope you enjoy using Dumb Phone! 🙏

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2yr ago