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Dumb Phone (dp)

Michael Tigas

Minimalist Launcher

4.6 ★3,811 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
389 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases

About this app

Turn your iPhone into a Dumb Phone.

Dumb Phone™ lets you create your very own minimalist-style phone on iOS.

Replace colorful app icons, pesky notification badges, and anything that might give you a dopamine hit when you unlock your phone, with simple buttons to open your essential apps - and nothing more.

Key features:

• Break out of your existing habits Every time you unlock your phone, all you will see is apps that you need, without being coerced into easy distractions from colorful apps on your Home Screen or the App Library.

• Create a Minimalist Launcher Select apps and add Dumb Phone widgets to your Home Screen to blend everything together.

• Choose your essential apps Select apps that you frequently use, so they are a single tap away.…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

8 screenshots
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Independent evidence report

Evidence and review signals

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Store listing and review signals

What we measured

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How these are measured

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Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.

Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured

What the analysis found

App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.

Methodology
Reviewers report clear pricing11 reviews · user report

Highlighted reviews

Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.

Reviewers report clear pricing
“Worth It — I tried other free alternative launchers, but their configuration was more vague and complicated than dp, and their apps were less feature-rich overall. I especially appreciate the breadth of preconfigured shortcuts, custom…”
5★ · App Store · 2026-08-31
Reviewers report clear pricing
“Minimalist simplicity — The app is very helpful and setting it up as a focus mode option is beneficial being able to switch back and forth. However if the lifetime option price was more like 20 dollars, I believe it would increase…”
4★ · App Store · 2026-02-27
Reviewers report clear pricing
“Love it — I love the app and other people who have seen my screen always ask me how on earth I did that. I wanted to switch to one-time purchase and I have no option to do so anymore. I wanted to try the app before purchasing. Tried…”
4★ · App Store · 2026-02-15

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 1.14.5.

What this app sells

Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.

Business modelFree

Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.