Turn your iPhone into a Dumb Phone.
Dumb Phone™ lets you create your very own minimalist-style phone on iOS.
Replace colorful app icons, pesky notification badges, and anything that might give you a dopamine hit when you unlock your phone, with simple buttons to open your essential apps - and nothing more.
Key features:
• Break out of your existing habits
Every time you unlock your phone, all you will see is apps that you need, without being coerced into easy distractions from colorful apps on your Home Screen or the App Library.
• Create a Minimalist Launcher
Select apps and add Dumb Phone widgets to your Home Screen to blend everything together.
• Choose your essential apps
Select apps that you frequently use, so they are a single tap away.
• Style your Home Screen
Choose from a Dark or Light minimalist style, by adjusting your wallpaper, background, text, and more, with themes.
• Adapt to Liquid Glass changes
Reduce the addictive elements of the Liquid Glass Home Screen style, applied in the latest version of iOS.
• Create multiple app launchers
Create launchers for leisure, work, night time, so you see the most important apps in context to your day.
• Detox Mode
Create an immersive dumb phone experience by choosing which non-essential apps to block and/or hide on your device, with the powerful capabilities of Screen Time.
• Control Center widgets
Quickly switch between app launchers from the Control Center with new control center widgets that instantly change your Home Screen.
Download the Dumb Phone app today and embrace the full benefits of minimalism, and turn your iPhone into a powerful utility once more.
Visit the Dumb Phone app website for more info:
https://dumbphone.so/
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https://dumbphone.so/privacy
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I love the app! It’s easy to use and the guides are helpful. It’s very nice that the app is dynamic and the developers are contactable and very kind. I would give 5 stars if the app was cheaper like other similar free alternatives.
Developer Response
Hey Joshua, thank you so much for the super kind review! 🙂 That's fantastic to hear the app and guides have been so easy to use, and appreciate the lovely compliments about the support too.Hope you continue to get heaps of value from using it each day, cheers!Cheers, and enjoy!
Bugs
Hdhsjsbdie
Phone keeps adding random widgets to my stack and I have to manually remove them. Alså please fix the widget borders, this is not what your pictures promise.
Developer Response
Thank you for the review, and sorry to hear you hit a snag with the widget stack adding extra widgets. It sounds like you need to turn off Widget Suggestions by long-pressing the stack → Edit Stack.Also on the widget borders, some of that styling is enforced by iOS 26, so feel free to message us with a screenshot and your iOS version and we will help you get it looking right. Cheers!
Great for taking back control over your own life
August Prior
A great tool to stop yourself from scrolling endlessly all day
Developer Response
Thank you for the super kind review August! 🙏 Really appreciate it and it's fantastic to hear you've been getting so much value from using Dumb Phone to stop the doom scrolling, amongst improving phone usage habits in general. Enjoy! 🍻
Misleading trial/"pro version"
Habidabbi
The widgets and apps are doing what they're supposed to do.What's subtracting the 4 stars is the greedy business model. You start with a trial and no information on what the "pro version" offers. Basically stating "unlocking all features". The caveat is that the unpaid version is a useless piece.. which just causes a pop-up requesting you to pay for the pro version to continue using the app. Further more: pricing is ridicilous for what it does.Don't waste your time setting it up. You're gonna uninstall it in a week anyways.
Developer Response
Thank you for the review. The information about the trial is covered in the Settings screen and also on the upgrade screen.However, sorry to hear that Dumb Phone wasn't a great fit for you. This kind of app is aimed at people wanting to reduce their phone addiction, but would prefer not to purchase and switch to a physical dumb phone, and simply turn their iPhone into one while keeping its utility benefits.It sounds like this might not by what you were looking for in this app, but we appreciate the feedback.
Thank you for supporting Dumb Phone and we wish you the best with being more mindful when using our phones each day!
This update adds the ability to create Detox schedules so you can restrict access to apps and websites throughout the day.
Please consider leaving a kind review if you find Dumb Phone super helpful each day :)
Version 1.15.2
The developer, Michael Tigas, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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