PhoneLess

PhoneLess helps you stop losing time to distracting apps by turning screen time into something harder to ignore: real app blocks, daily challenges and friends who keep you honest.

Most screen-time tools are easy to override when you are tired, bored or already scrolling. PhoneLess is built around commitment: choose what you want to protect, block the apps that pull you back in, and make progress visible every day. Free for you.

What you can do with PhoneLess:

- Block distracting apps at all times, on a schedule or after a daily limit
- Start Focus Sessions when you need a clean work, study or sleep window
- Take on Deep Challenges and the 7-Day Less Screen Time Challenge using your real screen time
- Join groups, compare progress and stay accountable with friends
- Build streaks, complete quests and earn daily rewards
- Track your screen time, Doom apps and focus habits from Home
- Customize Doomi and share progress with your profile
- Add home screen widgets to keep your progress visible
- Optionally turn on the Adult Content Block, an on-device filter that stops adult websites from loading (uses Android's VpnService, explained below)

PhoneLess is for people who want more than a timer. It helps you build better digital boundaries, stay focused, reduce doomscrolling and make your phone feel useful again.

Permissions PhoneLess uses on Android:

Usage access: PhoneLess reads how long you use each app so it can show your screen time, your Doom apps and your challenge progress. Your daily totals are saved to your account so your stats, groups and challenges work.

Accessibility API (AccessibilityService): PhoneLess uses Android's Accessibility service only to block the apps you choose. It detects which app is opened and, if that app is on your block list, shows a block screen over it. It never reads your screen content, messages, passwords or anything you type, and this information never leaves your phone. You can turn it off anytime in Settings > Accessibility > PhoneLess.

VpnService (optional Adult Content Block): The Adult Content Block is an optional feature you can turn on from the Boundaries tab. It needs Android's VpnService because a VPN is the only way an Android app can filter which websites other apps (such as Chrome) are allowed to open. When you turn it on, Android asks you to allow a VPN connection. PhoneLess then runs a local filter on your phone: it checks the names of the websites your apps try to open against a list of adult websites and stops those sites from loading. All other lookups go to your network's usual DNS server, just as they would without PhoneLess. The VPN does not send your traffic through PhoneLess or any remote VPN server, does not change your location or IP address, and does not store, share or sell your browsing activity. It is not a general-purpose VPN. While it is on, Android shows a key icon in the status bar.

PhoneLess Pro unlocks advanced history, customization, challenge modes and group upgrades.

Less doomscrolling. More living.
More "want to hang out?" Less "wait, why am I still on this app?"
Less phone. More life. Together.

Less life in here. More life out there.
Much love.

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