We love technology.
We love humanity.
This is our manifesto. A love letter to both.
This is our manifesto. A love letter to both.
Let's get something straight: we are not tech haters.
We love what our phones give us. Social media connects us with people we would never otherwise meet. YouTube teaches us things no classroom could. Maps guide us through unfamiliar cities. Music soundtracks our mornings. Messaging keeps us close to the people who matter most. Our cameras turn ordinary moments into memories we will carry forever.
We have learned new languages on our phones. Found jobs. Fallen in love. Navigated foreign countries. Discovered music that changed how we see the world. We have video-called our parents from the other side of the planet and felt, for a moment, like we were sitting at their kitchen table again.
Our phones are genuinely, deeply, remarkably incredible tools. And we are grateful for every single thing they make possible.
The quick check became 45 minutes. The notification became an interruption reflex. The scroll became a coping mechanism. We were not choosing to use our phones anymore. We were being pulled into them.
It crept up slowly. We did not notice the shift from intention to compulsion, from choosing to reaching, from using to being used. By the time we looked up, we had lost hours. Days. Weeks of our one precious life, spent watching strangers do things we would never remember.
We would put our phones down at night and feel a strange emptiness, as though something had been taken from us without our permission. And then we would pick them right back up again.
And the strangest part? We knew it was happening. We could see it clearly. We talked about it with friends, complained about it over dinner, joked about our screen time reports. We just could not stop.
So we tried everything.
And for a while, each one worked. That first week of a digital detox feels incredible. Deleting Instagram gives you a rush of control. Grayscale makes everything feel less magnetic.
But then Monday comes. You need Google Maps to get somewhere. You need WhatsApp to coordinate with your team. You need YouTube to learn how to fix the thing that broke. Slowly, inevitably, the walls come down. And you feel worse than before, because now you have failed at the thing that was supposed to save you.
None of them stuck. Not a single one. Because in the end, we get too much value from our phones to live without them. You cannot solve a nuanced problem with a blunt tool. And you cannot win a war against something you genuinely love.
Blocking does not work because the phone is not the enemy.
So we stopped asking "How do we stop people from using their phone?"
And started asking something different entirely.
"How do we help people use their phone with awareness?"
That question changed everything. Because the answer was not about taking something away. It was about giving something back: a moment of choice.
Not a block. Not a timer. Not a restriction. Not a guilt trip or a usage report or a disappointed notification telling you that you failed again.
A smile. A moment of consciousness. A physical action that snaps you out of autopilot and into presence. Your face lights up, your front camera sees it, and for just a second you are no longer a passenger in your own life. You are awake.
That is the entire mechanic. You smile. Your phone recognises it. And then you choose. How long. Which apps. On your terms. No one decides for you. No algorithm judges whether your usage is "healthy enough." No weekly shame report lands in your inbox.
Because you are not a child who needs to be locked out of the cookie jar. You are a human being who deserves to make conscious decisions about how you spend your time. And the most beautiful thing? Once you start smiling before you scroll, something shifts. The habit does not disappear. It transforms. From compulsion into choice.
That is what EvilEye is. Not a cage. A mirror.
We want to build the ultimate platform to protect you from the negative sides of your phone while you still enjoy everything good about it.
Not a hack. Not a trend. Not a phase. Something sustainable that you can use for years. Something so simple that it requires no complicated settings and no learning curve. Something universal that works for everyone, regardless of age or technical ability.
We imagine a world where technology and humanity coexist beautifully. Where your phone is a tool that serves you, not a trap that holds you. Where screen time is a conscious choice, every single time. That is the world we are building toward, one smile at a time.
Here is what that looks like in practice:
Works for everyone, at every age. From teenagers locked in a battle with TikTok to grandparents who just want to put down their iPad before bed. No technical knowledge required. If you can smile, you can use EvilEye.
Not a 30-day challenge that ends in relapse. Built to be a quiet, steady part of your life for years. A lasting companion that grows with you, not a temporary fix you eventually abandon.
The easiest setup possible. No complicated configuration screens. No confusing dashboards or analytics. No settings you need a PhD to understand. Just smile, choose your time, and go.
Shields you from the bad while letting the good flow freely. Because your phone is both the poison and the antidote, and the right solution knows the difference.
We are XY.CO, a small team based in Bondi Beach, Australia. Our parent company is built on a simple belief: humans are extraordinary, and the right tools can help them become even more so.
We are passionate about guiding people to their best potential through fun, playful solutions. Not through guilt. Not through restriction. Through joy. Because we have seen, again and again, that the things that stick are the things that make you smile.
We built EvilEye because we needed it ourselves. Every single person on our team has felt the pull of the infinite scroll, the late-night rabbit hole, the "just five more minutes" that turns into an hour. We are not preaching from a mountaintop. We are right there in the trenches with you.
We believe the best tools do not fight human nature. They work with it. A smile is human nature. It is the first thing we do when we see someone we love. It is instinctive, universal, and deeply wired into who we are as a species.
We just gave it a superpower.
Viktor Frankl
EvilEye lives in that space. That tiny gap between the urge and the action. Between reaching for your phone and losing yourself in it. We built a home in that space. And we filled it with a smile.
We appreciate you reading this. We appreciate you caring about your relationship with technology. We appreciate you being here.
Sending you lots of love from Bondi Beach, Australia 🐨
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