Dumb Phone - Turn your iPhone into a minimalist style phone

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. 😁

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

Congratulations on the fantastic launch of Dumb Phone, Michael! You mentioned that your screen time has significantly decreased since using Dumb Phone. How has the app quantitatively affected your daily screen time?

This is a great idea. Any plans on making an android app as well? Also do you have a subscription plan or any way to monetize?

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!!!

Part of me thinks that your version is the actually smart one, and the usual phone is dumb haha. Love what helps to decrease distractions.

Congratulations on the fantastic launch of Dumb Phone! The idea of transforming an iPhone into a minimalist style phone to help reduce distractions is intriguing. You mentioned that your screen time has significantly decreased since using Dumb Phone. How has the app quantitatively affected your daily screen time?

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?

This is a great idea and cool design. I know a few people who have gone back to physical dumb phones so that they can't waste time on their phone anymore, I wonder if this would have worked for them.

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Wow, Michael! This sounds fantastic! Love the idea of simplifying our screens and cutting down on distractions. I totally get lost in random apps, so a minimal home screen sounds like a game changer. Can't wait to try out Dumb Phone and see how it helps with my focus! Keep up the amazing work! Also, super cool that you're supporting indie apps!

Something we all need! Congrats on the launch!

Hey Michael, I love the idea of simplifying the home screen. How customizable is the app in terms of which essential apps you can select for quick access? Are there plans to add more themes in the future? Congrats on the launch!

Hey Michael, The idea is amazing. All the best with your launch 💥🥳 upvoted!

society needed this. society now has this. humanity is saved.

I have seen this on Twitter. Looks great! All the best!

Sometimes I feel the inexplicable urge to turn my $1500 iPhone into a potato phone 🥔 Now I can thanks to Michael 🫶🏼

This app just works! Tried similar solutions before, but the setup was a hassle. This one is well-built with great onboarding. Congrats Michael, wishing you more success!

Wow Michael! Back to the basis to boost our performance. Love all these minimalist tools and you're actually helping to focus on what we really need. A big clap buddy! Keep on that way

I know quite a few folks (myself included) who want to have a bit more control over distractions. I normally just switch my phone to black-and-white mode, but this looks way more powerful!