What dumbphone brain does
Everything marked Live works today for members. Beta works and is still being tuned. Later is planned and honest about not existing yet. Updated 2026-10-04.
Reach it from any phone
One number for everything Live
The same dumbphone brain number takes calls and texts. After payment, save it with Add to contacts or enter it manually on a basic phone. Find it again any time under Call & text or in the Account menu; refreshing does not lose it.
Call the AI Live
Ring dumbphone brain from any ordinary phone; mobile, basic handset or landline; and talk through multi-turn conversations. Say “end the call” to finish politely; press star when you finish speaking, hash to skip a reply, zero to hang up. English replies use an English accent by default. Short waiting announcements are spoken as a connected phrase.
Text the AI Live
Send an SMS and get a concise reply back. Long answers are split sensibly; the useful part always arrives as a text.
The web hub Live
Call, text and web conversations land in one private hub, with search and continuing history. Signed-in visitors go straight to their hub. The public homepage pairs “Get the answers. Protect your attention.” with a clear explanation of AI by call and text, a real subtitled call demonstration with playback on demand, a two-field signup form and clear UK membership, allowance and cancellation details. There are no social links or video tracking embeds. Longer stories and practical guides remain available on the Field notes page. Saved light and dark themes work on desktop and mobile.
No app required Live
The intelligence lives on the line, not on the handset. A twenty-year-old phone gets the same brain as a new one.
Simple UK signup Live
Start with email and UK mobile number on the homepage or signup page. Open your signup email link and verify your phone with the received code. If the incoming text is delayed, send a short verification text from your registered phone instead; the page confirms receipt. Both email and phone ownership are checked. New members continue to secure payment for the £9.99 monthly UK membership, then see the number to save and call. Existing signed-in members return to their hub.
Contact support Live
Report a problem or suggest an improvement using the Support form. Your email and submitted message go privately to the service owner; your chats and recordings are not attached.
One continuing record
One live conversation Live
Calls and texts from any of your phones continue the same conversation. Ask for a named plan or one of its sections without repeating it. On a call, a long plan starts with a short overview; you can ask for a section or text the full plan to your phone.
Two phones, one account Live
A distraction-free phone and your main phone can share one account and one conversation record. Give each number its own name, like Main phone or Nokia, and choose a primary phone: replies normally go back to the phone you used, and the primary is used when no sending phone is available.
Chat controls Live
Rename, search, archive and restore your chats from the hub, and delete ones you no longer want (with a confirm step; nothing vanishes by accident). On a call, say “switch to the chat about …” and the conversation moves there. You can still start fresh chats or carry a summary forward, from the hub, by text or by voice.
Recap to your phone Live
Use the hub’s recap button, or ask “text that to me” on a call or in web chat. After a spoken RECAP, this sends that summary, even if you change back to Normal mode first. You can also name something from the conversation, such as “text the workout to me”, or request a specific section, such as “text the third part of that plan to me”. The app sends the stored content to your verified phone and asks if the requested section is unclear. To send your own wording, write “text this to me:” followed by the message. Send confirmations reflect the texting service’s result.
Live call view Live
While you're on a call, the hub shows the real state of the line; listening, thinking, speaking; and the transcript appears as you go.
Remember this Live
Say “remember that …” and the fact carries across every chat and channel; ask “what do you remember about the van?” from any phone. See, search, add, edit and delete everything held at /memories. Nothing is remembered unless you ask.
Notes that organise themselves Live
Say NOTE MODE on a call and just talk; every thought is kept word for word and sorted into notes, ideas, action points and decisions. Your saved notes live at /notes (linked from Memories) and stay searchable and editable.
Dark mode Live
Choose a soft pink light theme or a deep plum dark theme across the website and hub. Both use the dumbphone brain logo, clear text and distinct controls. Your choice is remembered.
What it can do
Honest live answers Live
Current information is checked against live sources. If a lookup fails, dumbphone brain explains what could not be checked and offers a next step. Recording feature ideas or discussing a failed answer does not trigger another lookup just because live information is mentioned.
Current crypto prices Beta
Ask for a cryptocurrency price by call, text or web chat. Quotes come directly from CoinGecko, with a currency and update time; US dollars are the default, with pounds and euros also supported. Prices older than five minutes are rejected. Ambiguous coin names need clarification. Data provided by CoinGecko.
Send an email Live
Dictate an email by voice or text. dumbphone brain drafts it, reads it back, and only sends after you confirm.
Contacts Live
Save people by voice (“save Henry as 07700 900123”) or on the Contacts page in the hub; search, add, edit and delete, with a real dial pad for typing numbers. From any of your phones, “text me Henry's number” arrives as a plain dialable SMS. UK numbers can be typed naturally.
Compose a text for forwarding Live
Dictate a message; “text Henry saying I'll be there at six”; and the finished message lands on YOUR phone, ready to forward to Henry from your own number. dumbphone brain never messages your contacts directly.
Modes Live
Say NOTE MODE, “let’s enter note-taking mode now”, or “can we do notes for a bit?”; and dumbphone brain listens: thoughts are recorded with a quiet “Noted.”, no analysis, no searching, until you say NORMAL MODE (RECAP summarises your notes on demand). CONCISE MODE and DETAILED MODE change answer length, and natural phrasing works throughout.
Focused chats Live
Say “start a new chat about my holiday” and a fresh chat opens with that focus. Add how you want it to behave; “be straight with me”, “keep replies brief”, “let me think out loud”; and it holds for that chat only. See and edit both in the hub.
Silent mode Live
Say SILENT MODE and dumbphone brain records without talking back; just a quiet checkpoint tone now and then while you speak. Say STOP SILENT MODE to finish (or simply hang up) and the whole session lands in your hub as one transcript.
Private transcription Live
Talk instead of typing. Silent mode records you without interrupting and lands one clean transcript in your hub; Note mode captures thought after thought word for word; and every call keeps its transcript.
Transcribe recordings Live
Upload a voice note, meeting recording or video and get the text back. Video works too; only the sound is read, so there is nothing to convert first. Everything you transcribe is saved in your hub and read page by page, and the uploaded file is deleted once it is done.
Live voice conversations Live
Call and speak naturally. Answers stream as they are spoken, and you can interrupt. Note mode saves your words with short acknowledgements; say NORMAL MODE for answers on the same call. Hang up during an answer and its written text stays in your hub to read later.
SMS reminders Live
“Remind me to take the bins out”; with or without a time. Say “remind me in five minutes to record the birdsong” or put the time at the end; a timed confirmation tells you when the text is due. A reminder doesn't need a date to exist; add one later by voice (“set the bins reminder for Friday at 7”) or on the Reminders page, and the text arrives on the phone that asked. Ask “what reminders have I got?”, mark things done, and see everything honest and current in the hub.
Email a conversation Live
Say “email me this conversation”; or use the hub button; and a readable transcript with call markers lands in your account email inbox. Always your own email, always confirmed first.
Timers Live
Say “set a timer for 10 minutes” on a call or by text. For a quick SMS shortcut, send “3min”. dumbphone brain starts a real timer, confirms straight away and texts your phone when the time is up. Ask how long is left, or cancel it, any time.
Yes or no answers Live
Ask for a straight answer; "tell me yes or no, is palm oil bad for you?"; and the reply starts with Yes or No, with at most a short qualification.
Plans & trust
One simple membership Live
£9.99/month covers calls, texts, the hub and both phone numbers, with clear monthly allowances shown in your hub.
Fair-use allowances Live
Voice minutes, texts and AI replies per month, always visible in the hub. When an allowance runs out you're told plainly; your record is never held hostage.
Plain-English privacy Live
What is stored and why, stated plainly at /privacy. No optional website analytics or analytics consent popup.