Phones Down
A calm, social focus app

Put your phone down. Get your time back.

Start a session — alone or with the people around you — and the time you stay off your phone is measured, shared with friends, and turned into a weekly last-one-standing game. The only score is time off your phone.

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Free · iPhone · Works offline

Phones Down session setup — pick a countdown or open-ended, solo or with others
How it works

Three steps to a phone-free hour.

1

Start a session

Go solo, or start one with everyone in the room. Set a target time to survive, or play open-ended and see who lasts.

2

Put your phones down

Lock it and leave it — a locked phone still counts as focused. Switch to another app and a short grace window starts before it ends your run.

3

Get seen

Your time lands in a private feed your friends can like, climbs the weekly leaderboard, and builds your streak. Staying off your phone, finally earned.

Features

Simple on the surface. Serious about your time.

Solo, or last one standing

Focus alone, or make it a game with the people around you. In a group it’s last-one-standing — the first to cave is out, and everyone sees it. The last phone down wins the week. Join by code, by QR, or just tap a friend’s live session.MJAYou3 still in

Time always counts

A break ends your run but banks every minute you earned up to the moment you caved. Even a force-quit counts as a break — your time is never lost.

A feed built for real life

Sessions land in a private feed for you and your friends. Likes are simple hearts, one per session. No strangers, no noise, no points.

Leaderboard & lifetime stats

Compete each week on total phone-free time. Your profile keeps the receipts: total time, longest session, and your current streak.

Works offline

Airplane mode is the whole point. Solo sessions run fully offline and sync the moment you reconnect.

Phones Down session summary — 19 minutes phone-free with a 7-day streak and milestones
Every run ends with the time you banked, your streak, and milestones worth chasing.
Phones Down profile — weekly and all-time phone-free totals with current and longest streaks
Your profile keeps the receipts: weekly and all-time totals, plus your current and longest streaks.
Focus mode

A screen worth looking at once.

When a session begins, everything else falls away. A warm, quiet timer and a slow breathing ring — designed to be glanced at, not watched.

  • Lives on your Lock Screen while you focus
  • A slow breathing ring to settle into
  • Monospaced timer, readable across the table
Phones Down focus screen — a gold timer counting down inside a slow breathing ring

Ready to put it down?

Join the beta, start a session, and see how long you last. Better with a friend in the room.

Join the beta

Free on iPhone.