About Detox
Detox is a screen-time app for adults that stops doomscrolling without making your phone useless. Instead of a daily timer you can dismiss in one tap, it uses a consecutive-usage limit: quick checks stay fine, but it hard-blocks an app once you've been scrolling too long — and it's genuinely hard to bypass.
Backed by peer-reviewed research
Detox isn't built on hunches. Our work on what actually keeps people engaged with digital self-control tools was published in JMIR Formative Research (2026), co-authored with academics from EPFL and the University of Lausanne.
The founder
Léo Litrico is a co-founder of Detox. He holds a Master's in Computer Science (minor in Management) from EPFL in Switzerland, is French-American and based in Switzerland, and is a co-author of the peer-reviewed study above. He writes the guides on this site about screen time, attention, and breaking the scroll.
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