apps ask you to stay.we start with your leave.

teadot is a one-time screen diet for your phone. less screen, more walking, a steadier bedtime. then you graduate, not renew.

a turkish tea glass on a café table by the bosphorus, a phone lying face down beside it — istanbul · ince belli

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a diet, not a ban.

three things grow. one thing gets a gentle leash. you see it all in a single glass, and the glass is yours: an ince belli, a to-go cup, a mate. whatever you actually drink from. no points, no badges, no streaks.

the teadot home screen with a turkish tulip glass, 12h 30m eyes up, with a note: 24h a day, minus 7h 30m of sleep, minus 4h of screen — ince bellieyes-up hoursa day, minus sleep, minus screen. what's left fills your glass each morning. *glass wide shut.*

the teadot home screen with a to-go cup and a note: 4,879 steps yesterday, 2,375 your usual, 2,504 above usual — to gostepsread from apple health and compared with your own usual. never with anyone else. *your body, moving.*

the teadot home screen with a mate gourd and a note: your start 5h 40m, minus 2h 20m to take back, plus 15m earned, today's line 3h 35m — matetoday's lineyour start, minus what you take back, plus a few minutes earned by moving and going to bed on time.

some moments are better lived than posted.

a cup, a view, the phone face down. that's the whole idea.

an espresso on a marble table overlooking a glass-roofed galleria in milan, a phone face down beside it — milano · espresso

a to-go cup on a green park table in new york, skyscrapers behind the lawn, a phone face down beside it — new york · to go

a flowered tea bowl on a café table above the seine in paris, the eiffel tower in the distance, a phone face down beside it — paris · un bol

what would you do with it?

tell us roughly how much screen you have a day, then pick what you'd like back. roughly is fine.

screen time, a day5h

what you'd like back2h

14 hours a week

about 30 full days a year. that's yours to take back.

eyes up now: 11h with your goal: 13h assumes 8 hours of sleep.

what the research says, and what it doesn't.

screen time isn't a villain, and the evidence is mixed. so we keep our claims small and show you where they come from.

time taken back from social media mostly went offline.

2,743 adults in the us paused facebook for a month. they gained about an hour a day, spent more of it with friends and family, and reported small gains in well-being.

limits: one platform, four weeks, paid participants.

allcott et al., 2020 · american economic review

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a limit helped. quitting wasn't needed.

143 students kept facebook, instagram and snapchat to 10 minutes each per day for three weeks. loneliness and depressive symptoms went down compared with a control group.

limits: small, young, university sample; three weeks.

hunt et al., 2018 · journal of social and clinical psychology

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screen time alone explains very little.

across 355,358 teenagers in three large datasets, technology use explained at most 0.4% of the differences in well-being. how and when you use your phone matters more than the total.

limits: correlational; teenagers, not adults.

orben & przybylski, 2019 · nature human behaviour

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