0° – 20°
Heads up
Full brightness
Phone held upright, eyes level. Natural hand movement is fine — there's a dead zone for comfort.
Tech Neck watches the tilt of your phone. Slouch over and the screen dims. Hold it up and the screen brightens. A calm nudge toward heads-up phone use.
Tech Neck reads your phone's tilt 60 times per second and adjusts brightness in real time across every app on your device.
Phone held upright, eyes level. Natural hand movement is fine — there's a dead zone for comfort.
Start tilting down and the screen gradually dims. A quiet reminder, not a shout.
Phone tilted way down? The screen fades to black. Lift it back up and it comes right back.
Runs quietly in the background. Works in every app. Keeps a calm log of how you've been holding your phone.
Works on top of YouTube, TikTok, games, Chrome — every single app. One Android service, everywhere.
A 4-digit PIN only the parent knows. Kids can't turn it off, uninstall it, or change the sensitivity.
Daily tilt score, weekly trend, session-by-session history. See how your phone habits shift over time.
Set the max tilt angle anywhere from 20° to 80°. Start gentle and tighten the reins as habits improve.
Auto-launches on boot. Persists through app switching and closure. Not an app you have to remember.
Low-pass filter + rate limiting. No flicker, no jitter. Just a steady fade as your head rises and falls.
Install Tech Neck on your kid's phone. Set a PIN. Set the tilt. That's it. Your child can use their phone normally — but only when they hold it up, not when they're staring down into their lap.
"My 12-year-old used to sit at the table with her chin on her chest. Now she holds her phone up without me saying a word. It just quietly became the default."
"We set the PIN together and I explained the idea once. That was weeks ago. I haven't had to bring it up since."
"What sold me is how calm it is. No alarms, no pop-ups — the screen just gets dim when he's hunched and bright when he lifts it. Brilliant little idea."
"I wanted a nudge for myself when I'm scrolling on the couch. It's a small thing, but it works — I catch myself lifting my phone all the time now."
Yes. It runs as an Android system overlay, so it sits on top of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Chrome, games — every app on the device. One service, everywhere.
No. Settings, pause and uninstall are all protected by a 4-digit PIN that only the parent account knows. The foreground service is tamper-resistant and re-launches automatically after reboot.
Android 8.0 (Oreo) or later. That covers almost every phone made in the last several years.
No. Tech Neck only reads one thing: the phone's tilt angle from the built-in accelerometer. It doesn't see screen content, keystrokes, location, contacts, photos or anything else on the device.
The accelerometer is one of the cheapest sensors to read, and the overlay only updates when the tilt changes. In everyday use the battery impact is minimal.
Three days of full access, free. After that it's $3.99/month or $39.99/year, billed through Google Play. Cancel anytime in your Google Play subscriptions — no questions, no emails.
Not yet. Android only for now — the system-wide overlay that makes Tech Neck work across every app isn't possible on iOS in the same way.
No ads. No trackers. Cancel anytime.
Perfect for trying it out.
About $3.33/mo. Locked in for a full year.
Download Tech Neck on Google Play and give your phone one simple rule.