The Sprout line · Arriving in waves · 2026

Put the phone away.
Stay reachable.

UnTechIt designs connected devices that ask less of you. Modern underneath, quiet on the surface — built for the parts of life that don't belong on a screen.

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Sprout Go — a smooth ceramic pebble with a thumb-rest dimple and a warm amber underglow seam, on a pale wood surface. The Sprout line · No. 01

What we make

Intentional devices for the people who are done being interrupted.

We are not anti-technology. We are anti-addiction technology. Every Sprout product is modern, connected, and precisely engineered — what makes us different is what we left out.

No feeds. No infinite surfaces. No apps that quietly compete for your evening. Just a few small, considered objects that do one thing beautifully and then get out of the way.

This is not a return to the past. It is a redesign of the future using everything we used to understand about how good objects feel in the hand.

A family of four outside on a bright day, gathered close. The kids hold small ceramic Sprout devices in their hands and pockets; no phones in sight.

Where it actually lives

The phone stays in the bag. Everyone stays reachable.

The Sprout line is built for the parts of the day that don't belong on a screen — the long lunch, the museum afternoon, the parking lot conversation that turned into the best part of the week.

Carry a stone instead. The people who actually need you can still reach you. Everyone else can wait.

Sprout Go held in a palm — a ceramic pebble with a thumb-rest dimple and a soft amber light along the seam.

Sprout Go · Pocket stone

A stone in your pocket. Not a phone in your hand.

Slim enough for a front pocket, warm enough to hold without thinking about it. Squeeze yours — every Sprout in your circle feels it. A small, quiet way to say I'm here.

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Sprout Home · The bedside stone

Quiet most of the day. Awake when it matters.

One stone on the nightstand. Three states of light. No notifications, no feeds, no glowing rectangle pulling you out of the room.

Sprout Home in Ready state — a ceramic stone with a soft, quiet white seam of light on a wood nightstand. Sprout Home in Check-In state — the seam glows a soft digital green. Sprout Home in Attention state — the seam glows a warm muted red. Ready · quiet

Sprout Stem · The resting nest

Where the stone goes when you're done with it.

A shallow ceramic cradle that quietly charges your Sprout and gives it a home. Two sizes — one cut for Home, one for Go. The same warm surface either way.

Sprout Home resting in the larger Sprout Stem cradle on a wood surface — calm, low, intentional.
Sprout Stem in the Home size — a wider ceramic cradle shaped to receive the Sprout Home stone.

Stem · Home size

For Sprout Home

The wider cradle. Wireless charging, soft silicone underside, sized to receive the bedside stone without ceremony.

Ships with Home $ TBD
Sprout Stem in the Go size with a Sprout Go pebble resting in it on a wood surface.

Stem · Go size

For Sprout Go

The smaller cradle. Lives by the front door or on the desk. Drop the pocket stone in when you walk in; pick it back up on the way out.

Sold separately $ TBD
A connected Sprout handset resting in its olive-green cradle on a wood desk — calm, lifestyle.
Coming soon · Sprout TeleWorks

A connected handset. For calls that still feel like calls.

Next from Sprout — a tactile little telephone that lives in its own cradle. Pick it up to take the call, set it back down to end it. No app to open. No screen to unlock.

See the preview

The problem we started with

The phone in your pocket isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed.

For the last fifteen years, every device you own has been optimized for one thing: your continued attention. Not your wellbeing. Not your relationships. Not your long afternoons.

You noticed. Everyone noticed. The cultural case against always-on devices has already been made — by researchers, by parents, by anyone who has watched a dinner disappear into six glowing rectangles.

What's missing is the other half of the argument: better hardware. Not fewer devices, necessarily. Different ones.

Average screen time 4h 37m per day, per adult — and climbing.
Pickups per day 144 once every seven waking minutes.
Notifications per day 236 most from apps you never asked.
People who feel overwhelmed 73% by their relationship with technology.

Our design principles

Six rules we hold ourselves to.

01 / 06

Do one thing. Refuse the rest.

Every Sprout product has a single, clear purpose. We say no to every feature that doesn't serve it. Constraint is a feature.

02 / 06

Make it tactile.

Buttons that click. Stones that warm to the palm. Weight that tells your hand something. Touchscreens are fine; the world doesn't need more of them.

03 / 06

Design for the off state.

Our devices should look beautiful when nothing is happening. They are objects in your home first, tools second.

04 / 06

No infinite surfaces.

No feed. No scroll that never ends. Every screen has a bottom, and you can reach it.

05 / 06

Respect the people using it.

No dark patterns. No engagement metrics. No notifications we didn't need to send. We don't measure "time on device." We think about it every day.

06 / 06

Built to outlive a trend cycle.

Repairable. Upgradable firmware. Materials that age well. We want these objects on the shelf in ten years, not in a landfill in two.

A small movement

One day a year, the phone goes in a drawer.

UnTechIt Day annually · September

An open invitation, not a campaign. Pick a day. Tell the people who actually need to reach you how they can. Then put the phone in a drawer and live for twenty-four hours like you used to.

No app to download. No badge to earn. Just a yearly reminder that everything important survived without a screen for thousands of years, and probably still can — for one day, anyway.

We'll send a quiet note before this year's date. That's it.

The UnTechIt Manifesto

Keep what matters.

Remove what doesn't.

Fewer screens. Better moments.

Technology should support life — not interrupt it.

Presence is a product feature.

Better is quieter.

Early access

Be early. Be quiet. Be first.

Join the list and we'll send you the Sprout Home reservation window before anyone else — plus the occasional Journal entry when we have something worth saying. Two emails a month, at most. No tracking pixels.