Making the phone calmer
Unplugg replaces my Android home screen with limits, a pause before launching apps, and a grey screen.
Most of my phone time was not decisions. It was reflex: unlock, tap, scroll, put it down, repeat.
Unplugg is a launcher, the app that is your home screen. That is a good place to intervene, because every app launch passes through it. Mine does three small things.
- A pause. Launching an app waits a moment first. Often that is enough to change my mind.
- Session limits. A cap on how long an app can be used, enforced from the launcher.
- Monochrome. The screen goes grey. Colour is what makes feeds feel like candy.
It is built in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose for one phone, and installed by hand, not through a store. That is a feature: no accounts, no ads, no growth plan. It only has to work for me.