Calm
Week in reviewSunday · Life Score
Steady
Your Life Score closed the week at 72. It rose most on the quiet evenings.
Why ctrl
ctrl is a physical key for your digital life. It was built on one idea. The decision to be present should take one second, not constant willpower.
Designed in Germany by four founders who wanted their evenings back. A key of aluminum and ceramic, a free app, and a philosophy that puts people first. Your phone stays useful. Your attention stays yours.
90.7 percent improved in at least one of three measured outcomes when mobile internet was blocked on their smartphone for two weeks1
Our philosophy
ctrl grew out of a simple belief. A good life with technology is about balance, not extremes. We will not tell you your phone is bad. We built ctrl for the moments you want to give your full self to, and we stay honest about what one small key can and cannot do.
Calm
Steady
Your Life Score closed the week at 72. It rose most on the quiet evenings.
Focus
Present
26 hours in ctrl this week. Tuesday held your longest stretch at 5h 6m.
Together
Rhythm
Twelve days in a row now. The streak grew a little every evening.
Measured, not guessed
device interactions a day at the median, measured in a German sample of 1,797 adults.2
app episodes a day at the median in the Android logs. Many small sessions add up.3
was the typical session length in the Android logs. Distraction often arrives in short fragments.4
What actually changes
No miracle claims. These are measured results from published studies, next to what German data says about the problem itself.
fewer completed openings of selected target apps with one sec
Non-randomized one sec field study · 280 active users · six weeks5
improvement in at least one of three measured outcomes
randomized trial, two weeks without mobile internet1
of German teens are tired in the morning from their phone at night
JIM study 20256
of 18 to 24 year olds say their own use is too high
Deloitte Germany 20247
Your attention is not broken.
A large meta-analysis found no decline in attention performance.8 Your environment got louder. That is fixable.
Material
The Key is a solid piece of precision-milled aluminum with a matte white ceramic face. There is no battery and no charging, so there is nothing to keep alive. It is made to outlast the habit it replaces and to still feel right in your hand years from now.
It compounds
ctrl does not nag. The app quietly keeps score of the time you take back, and the picture gets better every week.
Day 5 of about 66 to a formed habit
Illustrative app views, not measurements.
Where the research is correlational, we say linked, not caused. We never round numbers in our favor.
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