The phone doesn’t live in your bedroom anymore.
The secret to a peaceful bedroom
isn’t stronger willpower. It’s a smarter boundary.
Away gets the phone out of the room entirely. Alarms still sound. The emergency line stays open for the people who matter most.
The problem
It isn’t that people lack discipline. Leaving the phone outside the room means giving up being reachable and reliable when it counts.
“No more 2 AM doomscrolling. No more waking up and immediately checking work emails with one eye open. Away gave me my nights and my mornings — back.”
Mobile phones are designed to keep you hooked. Your bedroom is not a place for their experiments.
You tell yourself you will leave it in the other room. Sometimes that works, for a night or two. But willpower alone rarely holds.
What if there is an emergency? I cannot go to sleep without my alarm.
It always ends up right back on the nightstand. Or worse, in your hand. That is the trap.
One more scroll. Then another. Then tomorrow, you’re tired again.
Why we are different
Everyone else makes you choose between being unplugged and being reachable. We do not.
Every existing product forces a trade-off. Lockboxes and app-blockers lock the whole phone, so you are unreachable. That is what people cannot accept. Bedside clocks give you a nicer alarm, but the phone stays on the nightstand, so the problem never leaves the room. Do Not Disturb alone is easy to cheat.
Away keeps your phone in a dock outside the room, with a receiver that lets through only the calls that matter. A child. An elderly parent. Your boss in a genuine crisis. They can still get through, on a device with no way to scroll. That is the fear, gone. The reason people keep their phone next to them, gone.
The ritual
Putting your phone away becomes as natural as brushing your teeth.
You already have an evening routine. Lock the door. Brush your teeth. Now add one more: dock your phone. It takes five seconds. It changes everything.
Once docked the receiver activates. The dock charges your phone through the night. The receiver in your room keeps the emergency line open and your morning alarm on track. You do not need to check anything. You do not need to set anything. You just sleep.
“I tried leaving my phone downstairs. Felt amazing for two nights. Could not stick with it. Now I dock it outside the room and never think about it.”
— Dan, co-founder
The morning
Wake up without reaching for a screen.
The receiver sits on your nightstand. When your alarm goes off, the display lights up with the time. A small digital screen shows you what you need to know: the alarm time, who is calling if the phone rings. You can snooze or stop the alarm with a physical button, without ever touching your phone.
No notifications. No feed to scroll. Just the time, your alarm, and the people who matter. You wake up on your terms, not your phone’s.
The embossed Away wordmark on both the dock and receiver is the only branding. Nothing shouts. Everything whispers.
The product
A place your phone lives at night, that is not your bedside table.
A small physical action that tells your brain the day is done. No willpower. No app to fight with. Your phone goes to bed when you do.
The Dock
Wall-mounted, outside the room. Phone snaps to a magnetic 45° wedge in one motion. 15W Qi2 wireless charging. A small digital screen shows the time and charging status. The embossed Away wordmark sits subtly on the front tray. Finishes: forest green silicone, walnut wood, matte white.
The Receiver
A small, pebble-shaped unit by the bed. A basic digital screen shows the time, your alarm, and who is calling. Four physical buttons: answer, hang up, snooze, stop. Whitelisted calls and alarms come through here. Answer without ever touching a screen. The embossed Away logo sits subtly on the front edge.
The App
A two-minute setup that configures your phone’s own emergency bypass and alarms. Its job is to make the whole thing effortless, then get out of the way. You never need to open it again.
Configurations: Solo (one phone) · Duo (two phones — the couples setup).
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Introducing
Away
The wall-mounted dock that charges your phone outside the bedroom. A receiver in your room keeps the emergency line open and your morning alarm on track. No subscription. No app required. Just sleep.
How it works.
Three steps. No app required. No subscription. Just sleep.
Dock
Your phone snaps to the magnetic 45° dock on the wall outside your bedroom. It charges while you sleep. Out of sight. Out of reach.
Charge
15W Qi2 wireless charging through the night. Hidden cable management. Your phone wakes up fully charged when you do.
Sleep
The receiver on your nightstand lets through only what matters. Emergency calls. Your alarm. Its small screen shows the time and caller ID. Nothing else gets in.
What comes back
The things people quietly stopped doing.
Reading before bed. Waking up without reaching for a screen. Talking to the person next to you. These are not luxuries. They are the things that used to be normal, before the phone moved into the bedroom.
The e-reader you bought and abandoned. The book on the nightstand you have been meaning to start. The morning you used to have, before checking WhatsApp became the first thing you did. It is all still there. You just need the phone somewhere else.
See the product“It feels like I'm actually putting my phone to bed, the ritual has changed everything.”
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Why nothing else has worked
The free alternative is the real competitor.
Phone settings and a cheap alarm clock do the basic job for nothing. So why does it not stick? Because free solutions do not address the fear. You still worry about missing the call. You still need your phone for the alarm. So the phone creeps back in.
You have probably tried. Screen time limits: downloaded and deleted. Do not disturb: works until you wake up at 2am and check anyway. Leaving it on the landing: works for two nights. It is not that you lack willpower. It is that willpower alone was never going to be enough.
The other products in this space are not much better. Some want you to subscribe to a clock. Some have no physical buttons. Some lock your phone away with no emergency access. Some are just an RFID tag for fifty quid.
Away is a one-time purchase. No subscription. No app to babysit. Just a dock on the wall, a receiver in your room, and the peace of mind that comes from knowing the things that matter will still get through.
“If you have to get out of bed and walk to another room to fetch your phone, you are no longer doomscrolling by accident. You are choosing to. And most people will not.”
Try it for 30 nights.
If Away does not help you sleep better — if the emergency line fails, if your alarm does not sound, or if it simply does not work for your home — send it back. Full refund. No questions.
For parents and families
Your kids have phones in their rooms. That doesn't mean you have to.
Every night, parents across the country go to bed with their phone on the nightstand — not because they want to scroll, but because their children are one room away with their own devices. The fear is real: what if they need you? What if something happens? The phone stays because the love does.
Away lets you dock your phone outside your child's room or in the hallway. The receiver keeps the line open for the calls that matter. Your kids can still reach you. The emergency line is always on. But the phone — and the endless scroll it brings — stays outside the room where it belongs. You stay reachable. You stay rested. You stay present.
You are not alone in this.
These are real words from real people. The problem is bigger than you think.
“Scrolling with one eye before I have even properly woken up. I start checking WhatsApp to see what has happened overnight. It is maddening.”
Real person, Reddit
“I feel like a zombie. A 5am lump unable to look away from a six-inch glass and steel object that has mastery over me.”
Real person, online forum
“Innocent dread. I think I actually hate my phone. I bought a Kindle to stop scrolling and relapsed within a week.”
Real person, product review
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