A keypad on your home screen. Nine people, not nine apps. Everything distracting is one slow, deliberate dial away.
THE PROBLEM
I'm a medical student, and somewhere between lectures and late nights I noticed I was reaching for my phone at the exact same reflex speed as everyone else — for no real reason, dozens of times a day. People already pay real money for a modern flip phone to get some distance from that, and give up half of what their phone actually does in the trade. I didn't want to give any of it up. So I built the thing I actually wanted: the flip phone feeling, on the iPhone already in my pocket. Nothing new to buy, nothing thrown away — just a different front door to the same phone. It's helped me. Figured it might help you too.
Slow Dial is the free version of that feeling — on the phone you already own. Nothing to buy, nothing to give up. Just a different front door to it.
HOW IT WORKS
Nine keys, styled like an old backlit LCD. It sits over a matching wallpaper until the widget itself disappears.
Keys 1–9 are the people you actually talk to — a message or a call, one press. Apps live one key away, not scattered across a grid.
Instagram isn't on the keypad. To open it, you spell its name on the keys and wait out a short call. Every call today makes the next one longer.
JOIN THE WAITLIST
Leave your email and you'll hear the moment Slow Dial is out — nothing else, no spam.