Unpic for iOS · Waitlist open

Lock focus on real life.

Unpic blocks your distracting apps when your time is up. To get back in, you complete one tiny real-world quest — photograph an everyday thing. Your pic unlocks your phone.

Today's subject
Today's quest subject

A wooden spoon

UNPIC RAW · 35MM ƒ/1.8 · 1/250 · ISO 200 AF-S ▢ LOCKED

The exposure, in three frames

A block screen is dead air.
A quest is an invitation.

AF · LOCK
Hourglass

01 MODE: PROGRAM

Set your limits

You pick the apps. You set the daily allowance. Your rules, your dials — Unpic just holds you to the settings you chose.

AF · LOCK
Wooden spoon

02 MODE: QUEST

Hit the limit, get a quest

Time's up — but instead of a wall, you get a prompt: “Find a wooden spoon.” A small reason to stand up and look around.

AF · LOCK
Open padlock

03 MODE: SHUTTER

Snap the photo, apps unlock

One photo of the real world and you're back in. Phone time is the side quest. Real life is the main quest.

From the quest archive

548 everyday subjects.
Zero treadmills.

Quests are deliberately small: things already in your kitchen, your street, your pockets. Less “go run 5k”, more “go find the kettle”.

NO.01Wooden spoon
Wooden spoonƒ/1.8
NO.02Houseplant
Houseplantƒ/2.0
NO.03Keys
Your keys1/250
NO.04Coffee
A coffeeISO 200
NO.05Flower
Any flowerƒ/1.8
NO.06Book
A real book1/60
NO.07Toothbrush
Toothbrushƒ/2.8
NO.08Candle
A candleISO 800
NO.09Alarm clock
Alarm clock1/125
NO.10Cat
The catƒ/1.8
NO.11Kettle
The kettle1/200
NO.12Headphones
Headphonesƒ/2.0
NO.13Lemon
A lemonISO 100
NO.14Bicycle
A bicycle1/500
NO.15Umbrella
An umbrellaƒ/4.0
NO.16Teddy bear
Teddy bear1/30
NO.17Watering can
Watering canƒ/2.8
NO.18Sneakers
Sneakers1/250
NO.19Mailbox
The mailboxƒ/5.6
NO.20Dumbbell
A dumbbellISO 400
SWIPE TO ADVANCE THE ROLL → ROLL 01 OF 27 · UNPIC RAW

Privacy

Developed in the dark(room).

Like film in a darkroom, everything is processed in-house — on your phone. Nothing leaves the device. Nothing is sent to us, and nothing exists for anyone else to buy.

01 · NEGATIVES STAY HOME

On-device, always

Your screen-time data is stored and processed entirely on your iPhone. There is no Unpic server full of your habits, because there's no upload.

02 · LIGHT-TIGHT BY DESIGN

We can't see your apps

Unpic is built on Apple's FamilyControls framework, which means Unpic never even learns which apps you use — Apple keeps that sealed. Not “we promise not to look”. We can't.

03 · NO SPONSORS IN THE FRAME

No ads. No data selling.

You're the customer, not the product. No ads, no trackers, no brokers — just an app that wants you to use your phone less, on purpose.

04 · MANUAL MODE

You hold the camera

Unpic is for adults who choose to cut their own screen time — not parental control, not surveillance. You set the rules, and you can change them whenever you like.

The waitlist

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