Dayo v2 · now on iOS
Put your phone down.
For real this time.
Two honest ways to do it. Lock your phone to a real-world object — or get paid for staying under your limit. No willpower lectures. No surveillance.
Free · iOS only · two minutes to set up
Totems
Pick a thing.
Lock your phone to it.
Pick any physical object — a coffee mug, a houseplant, your dog. Snap three photos and it becomes the key to pause apps on your phone. To use it again, you have to find that object, in the same spot, and snap it. The walk back is the friction that fixes the impulse.
Real shielding
Built on Apple's Screen Time framework. Locked apps actually lock — no notification you can swipe away.
Your photos stay home
Apple's Vision API runs on-device. Your images never leave your phone.
Set it and forget it
Schedule Totems for bedtime, work hours, or the gym. They fire on their own.
Yours, solo
No parent. No funder. Just you and a real-world reset button.
Deals
Get paid to put it down.
Set a daily screen-time limit. A parent — or anyone willing to back you — funds the deal. Stay under, you earn real money. Go over, you lose 10¢ a minute. When the deal ends, you cash out.
One-tap deals
Pick your apps, set a limit, set an amount. Send it. Done.
Funded by someone who believes in you
They approve and fund in one tap. Card saved, not charged until you finish.
Real money, 100+ ways to spend it
Cash out to Amazon, Apple, DoorDash, Roblox, Starbucks, or PayPal.
Pay only for what was earned
If the deal breaks, the card never runs. No risk for whoever funds it.
In week one
People picked…
Real Totems, enrolled by real people. The list got weird fast.
What will you pick?
Why you can trust it
We can't see your life. We don't want to.
Most screen-time apps are surveillance with a friendly icon. Dayo isn't built that way — and it isn't paid for that way either.
No surveillance
Dayo can't see your messages, your camera, or anything outside the apps you choose to track.
No data sold. No ads. Ever.
That's not a campaign promise — it's the business model. You pay for the app, not with your data.
Photos never leave your device
Totem matching happens entirely on-device with Apple's Vision API. We store a number, never a picture.
Built on Apple's own framework
The same Screen Time technology Apple uses for Family Sharing. Real shielding, not a workaround.
Less app.
More life.
Pick your first Totem, or send your first deal. Two minutes, start to finish.
Download DayoFree · iOS only