Illustration: a pre-production render. The final design is confirmed before the first batch ships.
Why now
Every generation has its health crisis. Cigarettes. Lead. Sugar. Plastic. Somewhere along the way, we traded smoking for scrolling.
4h 37m
the average UK adult's phone use, every day
70 days
what that adds up to, every year of your life
£59
the introductory price for the first batch
The app
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.
The Dock becomes the place your phone lives when you're home. It charges; you don't scroll.
02
Run challenges with your club
Screen-free mornings. Overnight charging. Family evenings. You take them on together — the leaderboard keeps score.
03
Notice what comes back
Whole conversations. Bedtime stories with no half-checking. The odd bored minute — it turns out you missed those.
Oura integration
See what your evenings off your phone do for your sleep.
Connect your Oura Ring and the app lines up each night's sleep, HRV and resting heart rate with the time your phone spent on the dock.
01
Connect your ring
Link your Oura account once, in the app.
02
Dock your phone in the evening
Nothing changes. The dock counts the time as it always does.
03
See the night beside the hours
Each morning the app shows your sleep score, HRV and resting heart rate next to the time your phone spent on the dock, night by night and week by week.
Twelve weeks, side by side
Sample data
Phone on the dock, average per evening
An illustration of the view in the app, drawn with sample data. Your own numbers will differ.Show as a table
Week
Docked per evening
Sleep score
1
24m
71
2
36m
72
3
54m
72
4
1h 06m
74
5
1h 18m
75
6
1h 30m
76
7
1h 36m
76
8
1h 48m
78
9
1h 54m
79
10
2h 06m
80
11
2h 12m
80
12
2h 18m
82
Oura and ŌURA are trademarks of Oura Health Oy.
How it works
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.
01 — the dock
Distance
Your phone lives on it when you're home, so it isn't in your pocket.
02 — the app
Company
Friends and family run the same challenges and see the same numbers.
Fig. 01 — The Mute Dock, taken apart, assembled, and from the front — pre-production
The device
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 line of light tells you it's counting.
enclosureink-glazed ceramic — locked before the first batch
Fig. 02 — Pi Zero 2 W wired up, in front of the new site — Cardiff
Building in public — v.0.2 — August 2026
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
Building in public — v.0.1 — October 2025
“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.
The mission
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.
