Less screen. Nothing that matters missed.

The idea, briefly

The writer Cal Newport popularised the term: choose the few tools that support what you value, use them on purpose, and let the rest go. Most people who try it find the hard part is not the apps they delete, but the small, useful things that keep pulling them back to the phone.

With a simple phone, or a phone in a drawer

Some people switch to a simple phone; others keep their smartphone but leave it in a bag or a drawer. Lychnos Ring works the same either way once it is set up: it has its own eSIM, so it does not need a phone nearby. It is set up once from our app on an iPhone or Android phone.

You choose what reaches you

You decide whose mail buzzes and what Lychnos tells you about. Everything else waits until you look, or for your morning brief. Every answer starts as a buzz you can feel, and the screen is dark until you turn your hand.

What it does not have

No feeds, no apps, no games, no browser. A see-through screen of 72 by 40 pixels shows a line at a time. It is made to answer and step aside, not to keep you looking. More on how it works without the phone in a phone-free assistant.