Don’t pay for the Subscription
Truly a waste of time, do not buy this paid app that is just a widget. Set up your focus time on your phone for free. I made the mistake of paying $25 and I highly doubt they will give a refund. They give you a free trial, but I thought the app was just free. I paid $25 looking for a more intuitive, seamless “dumb phone” but it was the same, widget, buggy launcher that I had. Don’t make my mistake, and give me a refund.
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Worth It
I tried other free alternative launchers, but their configuration was more vague and complicated than dp, and their apps were less feature-rich overall. I especially appreciate the breadth of preconfigured shortcuts, custom launchers and Focus Filters, and detailed setup instructions included in dp. As someone with ADHD, the less friction there is with initial setup, the more likely I am to actually stick to a plan. I purchased a lifetime license because I think dp is worth it for helping me reach my goals for using my phone less.
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Dumb phone, not the dumbest app
I got dumb phone as a free alternative to the blank app. I already had some measures in order to stop consuming as much short form content on my phone. Actually, by the time I downloaded dumb phone I did not need apps like TikTok or instagram anymore. This app was more of a means to make my phone less convenient in order to further lessen screen time. Overall, it wasn’t the most effective as it is very easy to overcome its limits if you get incredibly desperate, but its overall not bad, especially for someone who’s already less dependent on the dopamine of short form content. Overall, however, something that I’d recommend much more is something like PushBlock. It’s another free app with a similar but also different usage and structure. On this app, you get to choose different apps that you can restrict almost completely, and the only way to overcome this is, you guessed it, doing pushups. As a lazy bum who’s also trying to get better at body weight exercises like pushups, this has been a very good way of both discouraging myself and getting to do more exercise at more times throughout the day.
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Response from developer
Thank you so much for the super kind review, Cyrus! 🙂 That is fantastic to hear Dumb Phone has helped make your phone less convenient and lowered your Screen Time even further, and thanks for the feedback about the limits being easy to overcome when desperate. We do offer app blocking at the moment through our Detox mode - and we have lots of improvement coming to that real soon! Hope you continue to get plenty of value from using it each day, and good luck with the push ups!! Cheers!
Not yet
Buggy as hell. Not worth the time right now.
Doesn’t Have All Apps
I was giving it a try but noticed it wouldn’t let me add my own company’s Break Diving app. If it won’t let me access my own company app, doesn’t make sense.
