Dumbify 4+

Minimalist app that turns your phone into something simpler

Really nice app that helps you turn off your phones constant stimulation by just leaving you with a main list of apps. Everything else you remove from your home screen so you just have the main page which is a list and then your App Library. No glitches so far and much cheaper than the alternative app and gives you almost all the same functionality. You’ll still need to do some other leg work to reduce the stimulation from your phone like turning off certain notifications or even using greyscale but this goes a long way. At the moment the developer is very responsive and open to feedback as well which is a plus

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for your feedback, Fasih! I'm so happy to hear that you're enjoying Dumbify! I'm excited to make more improvements to it!

Fantastic

Just what I’ve been looking for I am glad I stumbled upon this I will spread the word. Took a little time to set it all up, well worth it - my mind feels much clearer and everything is so much easier to use and less chaotic for my ADHD brain. The tutorials were super helpful and it was quick to understand what I needed to do. Glad I took a chance and bought it, I’ve downloaded soooo many apps that I hoped would be like this but they were all not only majorly confusing but expensive subscriptions. This RULES.

Too many weird behaviours

I would love to use this but it is refusing to launch the shortcuts app to add fundamental apps to the widgets. Cannot get it to work and I really cannot be bothered trying to debug this any more. Probably Apple’s fault but still annoying.

This app is basically just using the widgets functionality, with each having a list of apps that can be launched, and a matching wallpaper to mask the fact that it’s a widget once pulled onto your home screen.

I’m not sure the price of the app is worth it considering it doesn’t really lock your phone down, just creates a list for you. iPhone OS17 has this functionality built in with Assistive Access and it actually is locked down. This, plus the annoyance of things not working as fluid as I’d like makes it a no from me.

Should be a trial version as I wouldn’t have sunk £5 into something that wasted an hour of my life trying to be functional.

I really do appreciate devs working on apps like this as smartphones are a curse, but I don’t think we’re their yet.

Not to say don’t give it a go, lots of people seem to have success with it, mine just will not link to the shortcuts app after reinstalling both in different orders, restarting my device etc. Seen others on Reddit with same issue