DeBox

Our mission is to bring families back to real moments by making screen-free time something worth striving for, not something enforced. We build hardware and software that turns putting your phone down into a shared family ritual, with goals, progress, and genuine rewards that actually mean something.

Families are losing real time together to screens - and existing solutions make it worse. Parental controls, lockboxes, and screen time limits create conflict and resentment, especially with teenagers. Parents feel helpless. Kids feel surveilled. Nobody wins. There is no product on the market that treats the whole family as a team and uses positive incentives instead of restrictions.

DeBox is a beautifully crafted wooden docking station paired with a gamified family app. Each family member places their phone voluntarily - NFC detects the device, tracks screen-free hours, and feeds a shared scoreboard. Families set goals together and earn real rewards (a dinner out, a day trip). No locks, no surveillance, no conflict. Just motivation, transparency, and something worth putting the phone down for.