About moss
A small product with one idea: the key to your phone should not be in your phone.
Why it exists
Every phone already has limits built in, and most of us tap straight past them. The products that work best take the off switch out of your hand and put it somewhere you have to walk to. moss does that with a small stone: tap your iPhone on it to lock the apps you chose, tap again to unlock.
The part nobody else had built is the household. A phone habit at home is rarely one person's. It is easier to put yours down at dinner when everyone else at the table has too, and you can see that they have. So moss lets the people who live together lock at the same time, as equals. Nobody controls anyone else's phone and nobody sees anyone else's apps.
Why moss
A rolling stone gathers no moss. A phone you put down does. The name is a verb as much as a thing: you moss your phone at dinner, you are mossed for an hour, the house mosses at eight.
What we will not do
- No subscription on locking. Locking your own phone is free. You buy the stone once. Only the household features cost extra.
- No watching. Which apps you lock and how you use your phone stay on your phone.
- No invented praise. You will not find made-up reviews or customer counts here.
- No overclaiming. moss can be bypassed by someone determined, like every app of its kind. We say so in the FAQ.
Who makes it
moss is designed and built by Shane, working alone and without outside funding, in Toronto. If you write to hello@letsmoss.com, that is who reads it.