We're not anti-tech. We're anti-autopilot.

Your phone was engineered, very carefully, by a lot of smart people to be hard to put down. When you can't stop scrolling, that says more about the design than about you, and willpower alone was never going to win. The answer is a better system, and we're building one.

An hour spent writing, learning, or talking to someone you love is an hour well spent, even through a screen. An hour lost to a feed you never meant to open is a different thing entirely. Unglue exists to turn screen time from a reflex into something you actually chose.

When you keep failing at the same thing, the useful question is what would make it easier. Block off the first hour of the morning before the day eats it. Add a tiny pause before the app opens, long enough to notice what you're actually feeling. Ask better questions about the habit, rather than kicking yourself.

“The best way to quit an addiction is to replace it.”

Most screen time apps restrict, lock, block, and shame. We've tried them, and they made us feel terrible. Real change starts with a pause: the half second before autopilot kicks in, then a small nudge toward something real. A focus session, a walk, looking up from the screen. Just long enough to come back to yourself.

Unglue is also an app, and the irony is not lost on us. So we built it like a friend in your corner: rooting for you, celebrating the small wins, and quietly handing you back chunks of your real life.