Disconect
Welcome to our collection of products and ideas designed to help you reduce your screen time and reconnect with the world around you. Here, you'll find a variety of tools and resources that will help you establish control over your phone and live a truly free life. Explore our carefully curated selection and discover ways to unplug, unwind, and enjoy more meaningful moments away from your screens.
Dumb Phones
Are you ready to ditch your smartphone for a dumb phone? Here are a few options that provide essential features without the extra distractions. Welcome to a simpler life and more time in the real world.
Wisephone II
This stylish phone comes equipped with a camera and access to a pre-set list of apps, but reduces distraction with no access to emails, internet, or social media.
Punkt MPO2
Operable with only a text-based interface and buttons for navigation, this bare bones phone only allows for calls and texting.
Sleke Phone
Made from refurbished Google Pixel phones, this device has access to a curated app list and an answer-based browser without the distracting links.
Light Phone III
This compact phone features a black and white screen with minimal apps along with a two-step shutter camera.
Mudita Kompact
Designed to reduce blue light and eye strain, this phone features a paper-like display and prevents access to social media and other distracting apps.
CAT S22
The classic flip phone design has been upgraded with a touchscreen and rugged build.
Landlines
Solutions to reduce phone time can lead to some practical challenges - one of which is still maintaining contact with friends and family. This curated list offers products that still allow for contact with loved ones, whether near or far, but without the additional distractions that come with a cell phone.
Black Bluetooth Rotary
Style Phone
This Bluetooth-connected landline phone lets you place and receive calls without touching your smartphone. The retro look adds a fun touch of nostalgia.
Xtreme Technologies
XLink BT HD
The XLink allows any landline phone to place and receive calls from your cell phone. Finally put that antique rotary phone back to use!
Tin Can
TinCan is a WiFi landline for kids. It doesn’t have apps, texting, or games. It encourages real conversations with friends, neighbors, or whoever you add to your approved contact list.
Apps and Features
Not ready to fully give up your phone but still want to decrease your screen time? Browse these apps and features that will allow your phone to work with you, not against you.
Screen Zen App
ScreenZen is the only free screen time app for Android & iPhone that helps you pause before opening apps, track usage, and set limits to break the cycle of endless scrolling.
Freedom App
Freedom is the only app that works across platforms and devices to sync blocking sessions.
Digital Well Being
This Android feature helps users monitor and manage screen time and digital habits to foster a healthier relationship with technology.
Minimalist App
This minimalist launcher app can help you use your phone in a mindful way. Its simple and modern interface minimizes toxic usage patterns and extends your battery life.
Forest App
The Forest app plants a virtual tree when you want to stay focused on your work. The tree grows as you work and dies if you get distracted. Users can also earn credit that can be used to plant real tress.
Screen Time
This iPhone feature monitors, manages, and helps limit your screen time.
Roots App
Roots uses its fun and motivating interface to encourage activities away from the screen and allows users a range of app controls and limits. It is also the only app with a risk-free money back guarantee.
Thrive App
Thive helps you limit anxiety-triggering apps, schedule time for you and your goals, and silences notifications so you can focus.
Greyscale Mode
A display setting on your phone that removes color and helps to reduce phone addiction by making it less visually stimulating.
Working with Tech
Have a knack for finding screen time workarounds with apps and features? Try out these items that rely on physical space and proximity to limit your screen time. At Raise Your Gaze, we found these products to be the most helpful for us to break our phone addiction.
Bloom Card
Bloom is a stainless steel keycard that locks and unlocks your distracting apps and websites.
Phone Lock Box
If all else fails, this phone lock box will prevent access to your screen for a specified amount of time. A small window still allows for calls to be answered.
The Brick
Brick creates separation, requiring a physical scan to access blocked content, which reinforces intention and keeps temptation out of reach.
Mindsight Timed Lockbox
A simple tool that helps you reduce screen time, break bad habits, and stay focused—one locked moment at a time. An added bonus is this box not only fits phones but gaming controllers and other distractions that come in small packages.
Blok
Blok is a physical solution. Tap the card on your phone to begin a session and apps remain blocked until you tap it again.
Snugbox
Lightweight, durable, and stylish, this 3-digit lock box is perfect for limiting kid's screen time.
