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The DisConnect Card · NFC · iPhone & Android

The app for people who f*cking hate apps.

Tap the card and the feed locks. The app shows you three things happening within 10 minutes of you. Go, tap in at the door, get paid in perks.

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Your data stays on your phone. Zero tracking.
40,116 phone-free minutes logged by DisConnect users in the last 90 days.
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Apps locked● 1,452 pts
Disconnected for
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Within 10 min of you
Thursday 5K run clubMove · 0.7 km · 7:00pm · +50
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Pints $2 off till 7Drink · 0.4 km · now · +30
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The tap

Tap on. Tap off. The hours come back.

"Ignore limit for 15 minutes" was designed by someone who wanted you to press it. The card puts a physical step between you and the feed. To get your apps back, you need the card in your hand. By then you've noticed it's 11pm.

And when the feed goes dark, you don't get a lecture. You get somewhere to go.

Get a CardNo charging. No batteries. It's a card.
The vacuum

You're not addicted. You're bored.

Nobody scrolls because they love scrolling. It's 8pm, making a plan means texting three people who won't answer, so you open the thing that asks for nothing. The feed doesn't win because it's good. It wins because everything else takes effort.

There's nothing wrong with you. You're up against a machine with thousands of engineers on the other side. So we built one on yours.

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The average person touches their phone
2,617
times a day. — Dscout Research

Since you opened this page, that's 0.0 touches. Keep reading, it'll go up.

4.5 hrs
24
Between now and 80, that's
10.5 years
of round-the-clock screen. Not a stat we looked up. That's your math.
Take a year back — get a card
Status: it's not youIt's the machine
The loop

Everyone else asks how to use your phone less. We ask what you'd rather be doing.

1

Lock the feed

Pick the apps that eat your evenings. Tap the card. They're gone until you tap again.

2

Get told where to go

Twenty minutes into a scroll, the app pings: three things happening within 10 minutes of you.

3

Tap in at the door

Your card is your check-in. The venue knows we sent you. Leave your phone at home if you want.

4

Cash it in

Points, perks, free rounds, early entry. The app learns what you actually say yes to.

The Discover tab · Toronto

Boredom is a location problem.

Run clubs, happy hours, standup, pottery, the café that won't give you the Wi-Fi password. Mapped, within walking distance, tonight.

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Three things within 10 minutes of you

Sample listings for this preview. Members earn points at every tap-in.

You are here: Queen & Ossington10-min walk ≈ 800 m
What you get

Free gets you the app. The card makes it stick.

Every tier includes the whole loop: detection, suggestions, the map. Members get paid for going.

Side by side Free app$0 forever Just the Card once Founding 500Card + Membership/yr
App blocking & screen-time scoreboard✓✓✓
Suggestions & the Discover map✓✓✓
Modes & schedules2 modes · 1 schedule4 modes · 3 schedulesUnlimited
Physical NFC card (tap to lock)✕✓✓
Real rewards & perks at partner spots✕30 days free✓
Member number & tap-in check-ins✕30 days free✓
Heirloom welcome kit✕✕✓
30-day money-back guarantee—✓✓
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The welcome kit · Members only

It shows up like mail used to.

A textured envelope. Collectible stamps. Stickers for the laptop you'll use less. A numbered Founding Member certificate. And your card, with your member number on the back.

The best thing your mailbox has seen since 2006. Also: an excellent gift.

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day three, no signal
Why this exists

Three days. No signal. Mom was right.

At 23, Max Ward went on a fishing trip with no reception. Day one was twitchy. By day three he felt like a person again. Back home, the time was there. What to do with it wasn't.

So he started Before The Internet, now the largest phone-free experiential brand in North America, with shows alongside Miley Cyrus, Charli XCX, Chris Stussy, Billboard, Warner Music Group and Heineken. DisConnect is the same idea, in your pocket.

"Build a life so good you don't want to be on your phone in the first place."

Max Ward
The question we get 400 times

"You made an app to stop using apps?"

Yes. You won't out-muscle a machine built to beat you. So we built one on your side, and ours tells you where to go.

Read the rest of the FAQ →
What does the card actually do?

It's an NFC card that pairs with the free DisConnect app. Tap it to your phone and the apps you picked lock. Tap again to get them back.

Members also use it to tap in at partner spots: that's how the venue knows we sent you and how your points get credited.

Is this a subscription?

It's a membership. Founding annual is a year, and that rate holds for as long as you stay. work too.

Cancel from the app any time. Your card keeps working as a blocker either way.

What rewards do members actually get?

Points every time you tap in somewhere instead of scrolling. Points turn into perks at partner spots: free rounds, discounts, early entry, members-only nights. The network is filling in city by city, starting with Toronto.

What do you track?

Your screen-time data stays on your device. We don't sell it, share it, or look at it.

For companies and schools, admins only ever see anonymous totals like hours reclaimed and events attended. Never names, never who scrolled.

For teams

A perk, not a policy.

$40 per employee, per year. Run your team's numbers in 30 seconds.

DisConnect for business → For campuses

The phone policy students actually want.

From $3 per student. Cards in every orientation kit.

Universities & schools →
Put it down. Go here.

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