Less screentime
More quality time
Meet Stolp
Less distractions, more conversations
"Disconnect to reconnect. Stolp is ideal to put on the table when your digital savvy friends have locked eyes with their phone screens again, and you want some quality time without notifications interrupting your conversation."
"It exists as encouragement to worthwhile human interaction, whether in the boardroom or at the dinner table. It serves as a sophisticated and convivial alternative to up to six lonely on/off buttons. It is a re-usable Pandora’s Box, ensuring that when its users ‘disconnect to reconnect’, they do so with brio and panache!"
100% offline
with one simple ritual
Faraday to the rescue
Stolp is a radiation-free Faraday-cage. Once you close it, no signal will come in nor out.
1 simple gesture, 0 distractions
Cover up to 6 phones, close Stolp, et voilà: no more pings, rings or incoming notifications.
"It's an oasis of rest now during dinnertime. Great product, I recommend it everywhere!"
Jeroen, 41
"I like that using Stolp is also a symbolic act. It's like saying "I give you my full attention."
Harald, 63
"Even my teenage daughter who can't stop scrolling on Instagram said
that Stolp is great during family dinners."
Michele, 45
"I feel like having more time. Simply having a barrier between me and my phone already works for me."
Toon, 30
"It's an oasis of rest now during dinnertime. Great product, I recommend it everywhere!"
Jeroen, 41
"I like that using Stolp is also a symbolic act. It's like saying "I give you my full attention."
Harald, 63
"Even my teenage daughter who can't stop scrolling on Instagram said
that Stolp is great during family dinners."
Michele, 45
"I feel like having more time. Simply having a barrier between me and my phone already works for me."
Toon, 30
But why?
4 good reasons to disconnect
from your phone(s) from time to time
More time
In 2020, daily time spent on our phones was 3 hours and 5 mins. That translates to 15 years in a lifetime.
Smartphones áre great. But what else would you do with that time?
Deepened Conversations
Even having your phone visibly nearby distracts us from real-life conversations and reduces our empathy.
Reason enough to establish new habits: screen-free get-togethers where phones stay in Stolp. Because out of sight = out of mind.
Productivity & Focus
Next to the logical reasons why a smartphone might take your focus away (hellooo notifications & distractions), having your smartphone just in sight even reduces our capacity to focus.
The solution? Out of sight = out of mind, to clear the way for an enjoyable flow of focus.
Less stress & more being present
More laughs & pleasure, less stress. That's what deconnecting from our phones does with us.
Live happens during the smallest moments. Don't miss out on them.
More time
In 2020, daily time spent on our phones was 3 hours and 5 mins. That translates to 15 years in a lifetime.
Smartphones áre great. But what else would you do with that time?
Deepened Conversations
Even having your phone visibly nearby distracts us from real-life conversations and reduces our empathy.
Reason enough to establish new habits: screen-free get-togethers where phones stay in Stolp. Because out of sight = out of mind.
Productivity & Focus
Next to the logical reasons why a smartphone might take your focus away (hellooo notifications & distractions), having your smartphone just in sight even reduces our capacity to focus.
The solution? Out of sight = out of mind, to clear the way for an enjoyable flow of focus.
Less stress & more being present
More laughs & pleasure, less stress. That's what deconnecting from our phones does with us.
Live happens during the smallest moments. Don't miss out on them.
Good to know
Close Stolp =
100% disconnected,
0 notifications, 0 radiation
No power plug nor
app needed
Fits your
charging cable
NFC for smart
automations
Frequently Asked Questions
Stolp acts as a ‘cage of Faraday’, an enclosure to block electromagnetic fields.
The cage, which Stolp is, blocks all signals. This means you won’t have phone reception, wifi or 3G/4G/5G. Nor Bluetooth, RFID, EMR or EMF - might be interesting for your car keys as well.
All radiation is being blocked.
You can still use Stolp and receive phonecalls, as Stolp can be used in two modes.
In the first mode, you're fully disconnected & fully offline. No phonecalls, no Whatsapp notification, nothing comes in nor out.
In the second mode, you do not fully close Stolp. That way signal comes in and you can receive that important phone call.
Stolp still helps you to disconnect as you're being visually reminded by Stolp to put the phone away from time to time & when it's inside, to not to reach for your phone mindlessly. "Out of sight = out of mind" : there's a bunch of interesting research on how this applies to your smartphone and our focus.
Similar to when walking in a building without reception or when being on a plane, your phone will lose connection. When you take your phone out of Stolp again, it takes a couple of milliseconds for your phone to find connection again. Then, all your messages will arrive.
The person trying to call you will be immediately sent to voicemail. After taking your phone out of Stolp, you'll receive a voicemail message if they left one or a message saying who tried to call you.
Yes, we provided a small opening for your charging cable. However, you will not be able to fully close Stolp while charging and thus you'll not be able to go 100% offline as you receive phone signal.
Unfortunately being 100% offline and charging with a cable, is physically impossible as the cable creates a hole in the signal-blocking-cage inside Stolp through which the phone signal can enter.
We're working on a Stolp with wireless charging though to solve this issue. Do you have a phone that allows for wireless charging and are you interested? Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on social media via the footer below to stay up-to-date on the launch.
With NFC, you can create automations: if you perform the gesture of holding your phone against the NFC-tag in Stolp, your phone registers the signal and performs a task you've chosen. This way you can stay off your screen while still benefiting from the wide array of features of your smartphone.
Some examples from our users:
💌You come home and hold your phone against Stolp. A message with your chosen text gets automatically sent to your partners, kids, employees,...
🔋Your phone automatically goes into battery saving mode from the moment it's into Stolp.
✈️ You put your phone in Stolp and your phone turns airplane mode on. Useful if you often use Stolp while charging your phone.
Stolp has two built-in NFC tags: one in the handle on top, one inside Stolp for when you put your phone in Stolp. As there are two different tags, you can set up a different automation for each of them: a different automation if you do the gesture of holding your phone above the handle, and a different automation for when you put your phone inside Stolp.
Setting up the automation needs to be done beforehand on your phone. It works best with an iPhone Xr 11 or higher, as there's passive NFC and it can be easily done in the Apple App 'Shortcuts'.
On the page stolp.com/nfc you can find a short guide on how to set up NFC.
On this page you can check if your phone has NFC. Nowadays almost all phones do.
It gets most interesting when your phone has passive NFC such as on iPhone Xr and higher.
Stolp fits most phones. To give you an idea, the iPhone 12 Max Pro fits in Stolp.
If you want to be sure yours fits, the dimensions of Stolp are 16,7 x 8 cm.
Up to 6 regular smartphones fit in Stolp.
Though this can be less when the phones are thicker-than-usual, or have a cover or cover-wallet wrapped around them.
Stolp was originally founded by Julien Yee & Matthias Vanhoutteghem to design iconic products to positively encourage smart phone habits that bring people closer together.
With the mission to have more face-to-face conversations and time well spent in the era of the smartphone, they started out designing for the meeting room with the 'Arena', a product that won both a reddot design award as an IF design award.
In 2020 the world had to rapidly adapt to a new normal, and so did Team Stolp. Our meeting product went in lockdown, forcing us back to the drawing board to keep the company afloat. The result was ‘Stolp’, a product that brought our mission in its purest form. In a year where people spent more time looking at their screen than into each other’s eyes, our story resonated more than ever. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, we quickly sold out our first batch across Europe and beyond. We now continue to grow our brand every day, with new products in the pipeline in addition to the current lineup.
So, we are Stolp. Five letters, straight out of the Dutch dictionary, representing our core product philosophy and celebrating Belgian design.
That's our story! In the meantime, Stolp was joined by Caro & Steve, two digital wellbeing-enthusiasts who like to slow down from time to time.
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What experts say
"A wonderful project to become indistractable.
What a great way to hack back."
Nir Eyal
Best-selling author of 'Hooked' & 'Indistractible'
" Stolp brings years of academic research into practice."
Prof. L. De Marez
Researcher New Media at the University of Ghent
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It s a good thing and it works wel
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Beautiful design and works perfect!
We bought Stolp to have some proper family time at the dinner table without someone staring at a screen. And it works! Stolp has a fixed place at our dinner table, you only get served if you put your phone in :-)
The Stolp goods have not yet been delivered to me
Hi Isabel,
We tried to get in touch as there's a problem with your delivery address. Can you get back to us at hello@stolp.com?
Many thanks!