minimalist phone®: Launcher

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Use your phone in a mindful way to improve happiness, productivity and stay focused

A minimalist home-screen launcher designed to reduce distractions, increase productivity, and break free of procrastination. Your launcher for digital detox

Screen time control (not the other way around) to live a happier life

No distraction interface that supports productivity, positive habits, and happiness

About this app

Turn your phone into a minimalist phone. Screen time control and app blocker to stay focused and increase productivity. Boost productive habits, filter notifications, and improve concentration by setting a time limit for apps

FAQ:
• What plans does the minimalist phone offer? You can choose from monthly, annual, or one-time purchase. All 3 plans include a free trial. Please see purchase screen for details.
• How to uninstall the minimalist phone? To go back to your original home screen uninstall the simple phone app by clicking on "Uninstall" here in the Play Store.

Features

👍 Minimal or dumb phone interface that supports productivity
👍 Notification filter - move unimportant notifications out of your sight for improved productivity avoid procrastination.
👍 Customizable color theme, font, and font size, grayscale
👍 App blocker
👍 Rename apps
👍 Blocking schedules for productivity and focus
👍 Supports work profile apps (install minimalist from non-work profile first)
👍 Monochrome mode (similar to grayscale) - view selected apps in black and white (requires activation on pc)

Use your phone in a mindful way to improve happiness, productivity and stay focused

Open the apps that you need to reduce screen time and avoid distractions. Using the dumb phone launcher with app blocker, grayscale and blank space to develop your own digital detox habits to control your focus and increase productivity.

A minimalist home-screen launcher designed to reduce distractions, increase productivity, and break free of procrastination. Your launcher for digital detox

The minimalist launcher allows you to block and hide undesired apps and notifications to avoid unwanted activity. Set a time limit or activate the app blocker to help you decrease screen time and start your digital detox with your dumb phone

minimalist launcher and dumb phone is designed to direct your focus on your most productive apps, and help with productivity and digital detox. Its app blocker feature, grayscale, blank space will help you focus, increase productivity, reduce screen time and stay away from social media and distractions. Your dumb phone launcher

Screen time control (not the other way around) to live a happier life

minimalist phone will become your new home screen and help you limit app usage in a positive way. Your dumb phone launcher with grayscale, blank space and app blocker for your digital detox

Reduce screen time by using our dumb phone launcher and app blocker. Or set a time limit to reduce screen time, improve concentration. Simple Phone launcher and Digital Detox app

Start by replacing your current home-screen (launcher) with our minimal launcher. This dumb phone helps you reduce your screen time with a time limit. The minimalist phone launcher is more than just an app theme or home screen - hide apps, rename apps and restrict addictive apps and games and use grayscale and blank spaces

No distraction interface that supports productivity, positive habits, and happiness

Phone addiction can affect your physical and mental health, your relationships and productivity - do digital detox to avoid procrastination and stay focused. Start feeling the benefits of app detox immediately. This minimalist launcher app or dumb phone launcher can help you use your device in a mindful way by increasing your focus and encouraging positive habits.*.
*applies to dark theme and OLED displays.

minimalist launcher may use Accessibility services for in-app reminder and blocking. No personal information provided by accessibility services is collected.

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Ratings and reviews

Needs a lot of improvement, esp for what they ask for $. I like the idea but the execution is lacking. I have no way to find contacts besides either using the contacts app (terrible), or changing an icon on my desktop to go to messages then going from there. Also, when you change the camera icon to another app on the homepage, the icon stays the same which is confusing. I'd recommend using another more well flushed out app. I REALLY like the feature that monitors your usage of certain apps tho!

I was very skeptical about this, but it instantly halved the time I spend on my phone and even recontextualized my phone when I take it off (so it's like rehab). I have to take it off sometimes when I am traveling and need to find stuff "habitually", but it's really a very boring launcher. the app features like timers and blockers work even if you don't have the launcher running on the whole phone. I feel funny about paying for something so ugly and boring but that's what I needed.

it's great for staying off of your phone, genuinely. However the UI is slightly glitchy - sometimes when you unlock or try to switch apps it doesn't register your actions (sorry I'm trying to explain this well for developers but it's hard to explain), not that it freezes your phone, just seems kind of "stuck" - it goes away when you unlock and then lock , and it doesn't happen very often. it's also nice to have most of your notifications in a place to sift thru - love this!

What’s new

* Stricter blocking schedules
* Fix Android 14 screen freeze
* Double-tap to lock
* Block websites of blocked apps (enable Precision mode)
* App shortcuts (e.g. from Chrome, Maps)
* Optional mindful delay when opening an app
* Folders
* Customize camera app, phone app and clock app
* App blocker
* In-app time reminder
* Choose search provider for swipe up gesture
* Monochrome mode for selected apps (requires activation on PC or Mac)