Out of sight.Out of mind.Out of scroll.
It's the nicotine patch for phone addiction.Join Mute Club — the physical dock and app that rewards you for putting your phone down.
Compete with your friend to be on your phone less.
Your phone charges on the dock, and the app counts every minute it sits there — nothing to press, nothing to log. Run the same challenge as your friends and the leaderboard shows who is ahead, and by how much. Most hours off the phone wins.
Screens from the app — pre-release build
Nothing blocked. Nothing locked. Just less, week by week.
A dock and an app that gently wean you off the scroll — a freer life, with less phone in it.
Distance
Your phone lives on it when you're home, so it isn't in your pocket.
Company
Friends and family run the same challenges and see the same numbers.
Every generation has its health crisis. Cigarettes. Lead. Sugar. Plastic. Somewhere along the way, we traded smoking for scrolling.
Fig. 00 — The Mute Dock, side elevation — pre-production
Not willpower. Not lectures. A better place to put the phone down.
The Dock becomes the one place your phone charges at home. Walk in, dock it, and dinner happens without the glow. A shelf for your attention — no screens, no speakers, nothing to configure. One LED tells you it's counting.
- enclosureunder evaluation — locked before the first batch
- chargingqi wireless, 15 w
- dimensions240 × 90 × 52 mm
- sessionsper-person, automatic
- firmwareupdates over wi-fi
- notificationsnone — it never nags
- priceexpected £39–89
- shippinguk first, q4 2026
Relearn what it feels like to disconnect.
Dock your phone
The Dock becomes the place your phone lives when you're home. It charges; you don't scroll.
Run challenges with your club
Screen-free mornings. Overnight charging. Family evenings. You take them on together — the leaderboard keeps score.
Notice what comes back
Whole conversations. Bedtime stories with no half-checking. The odd bored minute — it turns out you missed those.
Make presence a shared habit.
Challenges you run solo or as a club — quieter mornings, better sleep, dinners with everyone actually there.
Screen-free mornings
2/5 · 40%Keep your phone docked for 2+ hours between 8–11am, five weekdays running.
Overnight charging
5/7 · 71%Charge away from your bedroom for better sleep.
Family evenings
4/7 · 57%Phone docked between 5–8pm, at least four nights a week.
7-day streak
7/7 · 100%Dock your phone for more than an hour every day for a week.
The docks arrive Q4 2026. The club starts now.
Fig. 02 — Pi Zero 2 W wired up, in front of the new site — Cardiff
A second baby, and a second dock.
Our second child arrived in April. The case for this thing stopped being theoretical somewhere around the third night feed — two small children, and the phone still the loudest thing in the room.
Diana and I are finding our ways. Phones face-down at teatime, out of the room at bedtime. It's an uphill battle, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
So the next dock is Diana's. Two docks, two counters, one leaderboard — the smallest club there is. We'll see how that goes.
Alongside it: new app mockups, a new site — the one on the screen behind the board — and the admission that the latest LLMs have made the hardware side considerably less frightening than it was in October.
Fig. 01 — Prototype, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 — Cardiff
“What is a soldering iron anyway?”
I'm getting my hands dirty and learning some new skills to build the very first version of the Mute Dock. I'll be sharing my journey here as I build it.
I'm using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and a few other components just to prove out the concept, and home in on how I'd like it to work.
1,000,000,000
hours off screens by 2030.
Every hour your phone sits on a Mute Dock counts towards it. Bath times, bedtime stories, dinners with no glow under the table.
Mute.Club started because we realised we were losing something we couldn't afford to lose — our attention.
Soon, you'll crave your mute time as much as you once craved the scroll.
The first batch makes you a founding member.