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Most phones are built to keep you scrolling. We built ours to do the opposite; a device that stays out of the way and gives you your attention back. Whether you choose the Balance Phone or the Pro, you don't have to choose between a phone that performs and a life that stays present.
Balance Phone Guides
View AllGuide 01
THE CONVERSATION GUIDE
How to open the topic with your child: how to frame it, handle objections and reach an agreement that lasts. Includes scripts for ages 10, 12 and 14.
Guide 02
AGE RECOMMENDATION
How to open the topic with your child: how to frame it, handle objections and reach an agreement that lasts. Includes scripts for ages 10, 12 and 14.
Guide 03
MANAGING APPS AND SCREENS
How to open the topic with your child: how to frame it, handle objections and reach an agreement that lasts. Includes scripts for ages 10, 12 and 14.
Balance Phone University
View AllLesson 01
What's really going on with screens
An honest look at why screen use has become the defining challenge of modern childhood.
Lesson 02
Why phones are so hard to put down
The design tricks that keep us hooked, and what that means for children.
Lesson 03
The effects of heavy phone use
What excessive phone use does to children and teenagers, backed by research.
Lesson 04
What is Balance Phone?
A short introduction to the phone built to give attention back.
Lesson 05
What changes without addictive content
What really shifts when a child uses a phone with no addictive apps or content.
Balance Phone Articles
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Article 01
A 40-minute wait changed everything
Something happened at the doctor's office the other day.
Article 02
The brain your teenager is building right now
Experience is not optional. It's how the brain builds itself.
Article 03
From a play-based childhood to a phone-based childhood
The loss of unstructured play didn't begin with the smartphone. But the smartphone may have made it permanent.
Article 04
What the internet is doing to our attention span
Your phone is on the table, switched off. Your focus has already dropped 9%.
Article 05
What's left when the phone goes quiet
These things never disappeared. They just stopped being the default.
Article 06
Balance Phone use in patients with addictions
What we learned from a four-month pilot with a Barcelona addiction treatment centre.
Balance Phone Tools
Balance Phone Picks
View AllWorth reading
The Book Of Tea, Okakura Kakuzō
A quiet classic about finding beauty in simplicity, presence and the rituals of everyday life.
Worth watching
Aftersun, Charlotte Wells
A quiet, sun-soaked film about memory, childhood and the moments we only understand with time.
Worth visiting
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Modern art, sculpture gardens and Mediterranean light. A place that rewards taking your time.