Hey welcome, my name is Paul. I'm here to tell you why we made EvilEye 🧿

I've been taking a multi year sabbatical after product owning the Android team at Canva, travelling the world. Instead of enjoying my new found freedom I often found myself getting lost in my phone mindlessly for hours. I noticed that even in the most beautiful places in the world everyone was constantly glued to their phone, unable to break their addiction.

We looked around for existing solutions. After going through countless apps and dealing with complex setups, we were often disappointed as the apps did not adapt to our actual lives. Existing solutions tended to be focused on blocking or limiting social media features and thus we would get frustrated and uninstall them quickly. My goal was to turn a difficult problem and reframe it into something fun.

We made sure EvilEye is

Easy to setup: Simply select your app and you are done. No schedules or complex setups required.
Realistic and sustainable solution: If you need 1h to connect with social media at a party you can, however if you’re just checking your IG DMs you know you won’t get lost in the algorithm again. Be in control of your time.
Interrupt the addiction hook with science: Smiling, even a fake smile, has a positive effect on the nervous system and can interrupt the addiction loop. Combined with the effectiveness of mirror therapy that brings the necessary dose of consciousness to know what you are doing. There’s something extremely powerful about seeing yourself unhappy, laying on the couch that make you think twice and realise it is better to go outside instead.

EvilEye is free to use for one app forever. If you want to add multiple apps it's a small monthly fee. We don't make money from selling your data. Your privacy is at the core of the apps design. Our amazing developer Alex has made sure EvilEye is a native and fast SwiftUI app with no unnecessary overhead.

We hope Evil Eye can make a little dent in the world and help bring more empowerment to people like yourself, who love using technology and feel the empowered it brings, but at the same time don't want to be sucked into mindless consumption that can happen so easily even with our best intentions.

We've been working on Evil Eye full time for the last 3 months, and are excited to share more as our bigger vision comes alive.

Let's solve phone addiction with one smile at a time.

Much love,

Paul ❤️