# Potato Phone - Digital Detox — Text-Only Home Screen Widgets > Text-Only Home Screen Widgets (iPhone/iPad app by chanhyeok choi.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/potato-phone-digital-detox/id6823266702 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [chanhyeok choi](https://appshunter.io/developer/1799983470) - Category: Productivity, Lifestyle - Price: $2.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 58 MB - Languages: American English, Japanese, Korean - Released: 2026-10-31 - Data updated: 2026-11-10 ## What is Potato Phone? Use your phone less, without fighting it. Colorful icons and red badges are made to catch your eye, so you open apps out of habit. Potato Phone makes your iPhone boring, like an old flip phone. Pick the few apps you actually need, and a widget on your Home Screen lists just their names in plain type. No icons, no badges. Tap a name and the app opens. Move everything else off your Home Screen. It stays in the App Library, out of sight. That's the whole digital detox: when there's less to look at, your iPhone is easier to put down. It doesn't replace your Home Screen. You add a standard iOS widget, and the app shows you how, step by step. After adding your widget, three optional setup steps help you tidy your Home Screen. Choose Later to skip them, or reopen them anytime from the app's Settings > Home Screen setup. TEXT WIDGETS • Page 1–6 widgets: up to nine app names each. Stack them to swipe between pages. • Medium widgets show up to six apps in two columns, or seven to nine in three columns. Choose Large for a single column. • Spacer and Date & Time widgets for a calm layout • Light and Dark appearances, plus support for iOS 26 Clear and Tinted Home Screens STYLE • Ready-made looks: Paper, Sage, Midnight and Rose, with coordinated fonts, spacing and colors • Themes: Minimal Dark, Minimal Light, Auto, Ink, Gray, Feature Phone, Feature Phone Night, and your own colors • Solid-color or subtle paper-texture surfaces • Font, size, line spacing, weight, alignment, and letter case • Keypad-style numbering and your own standby text, like an old feature phone • Apply a look and save a matching wallpaper image to Photos. The same colors and finish are applied to your widgets after saving. Set the saved image as your Home Screen wallpaper in iOS. • Alternate app icons LISTS • Make up to 10 lists of apps, each with up to 54 apps: one for work, one for the weekend, one for winding down. • Let each Focus show its own list, or switch from Control Center (iOS 18 or later) and Shortcuts. ONE PRICE, EVERYTHING INCLUDED Pay once on the App Store and every feature is yours. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads. GOOD TO KNOW • Potato Phone appears for a moment before opening the app you tapped. • Phone, Camera and a few other Apple apps open through a small helper shortcut you add once. • Not in the list? Add any app with your own shortcut from Edit apps. • Clear and Tinted use iOS's appearance effects in place of your chosen colors and paper texture. Use the normal Home Screen appearance to keep them. PRIVACY No account, no tracking, no analytics. Potato Phone collects no data, and your lists stay on your iPhone. Questions or ideas: teamhyeok@gmail.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://choichanhyeok.github.io/kkangtong/privacy/ ## Is Potato Phone safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Potato Phone. ## Is Potato Phone legit? Potato Phone - Digital Detox appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Potato Phone is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2.0 — 2026-11-09 Version 1.2.0 • Fixed Phone, Camera and other apps not opening. If you added the old shortcut, the app will ask you to add the new one, just once. • Messages now opens to your conversations. • Open the app and use the new button at the bottom right to send us an idea or a bug report. • The app now tells you when a new version is out. • Long names get cut off less on Medium widgets. • Clearer guides for adding the widget and tidying your Home Screen, plus small fixes in Style. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-11-04 Version 1.1.0 • Four ready-made looks: Paper, Sage, Midnight and Rose, with fonts, spacing and colors chosen together. • Choose a solid color or a subtle paper texture for your widgets and matching wallpaper. • New Medium widgets: two columns for up to six apps, or three columns for seven to nine. Large widgets remain available. • Apply & save wallpaper keeps your widgets and saved image in the same colors and finish. Set the saved image as your Home Screen wallpaper in iOS. • Improved font display and cleaner alignment for numbered app names. • An easier first run and Setup guide help you choose your apps and add widgets. • Three optional Home Screen setup guides help you tidy up after adding your widget. Choose Later and reopen them anytime in the app’s Settings > Home Screen setup. Questions or ideas? teamhyeok@gmail.com ### 1.0 — 2026-10-31 No release notes. ## More apps by chanhyeok choi - [Neko Tuner – Guitar & Bass](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/neko-tuner-guitar-and-bass/id6749933012) - [Self-Suggestion: Affirmations](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/self-suggestion-affirmations/id6754752885) - [WhenToSleep - Bedtime Alarm](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/whentosleep-bedtime-alarm/id6758732586) - [Dare30 - Daily Habit Trackerm](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dare30-daily-habit-trackerm/id6760480813) - [aeiouJP - Learn Japanese](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aeioujp-learn-japanese/id6761683071) - [Sojung Filter - Film Editor](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sojung-filter-film-editor/id6762511423) All apps by chanhyeok choi: https://appshunter.io/developer/1799983470 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-10.*