Spend Toll: Curb In-App Buys

Most impulse-spending apps can only remind you. Spend Toll pauses in-app purchases themselves: enter a game or streaming app you guard and buying is off, phone-wide, until you resume it. To buy, come back to Spend Toll and open a short window for that one app. The friction sits before the purchase, not in a ledger after it. The pause screen carries one more line: a $39.99 pack ≈ 1.3 hours of your work. THE FRICTION MODEL Pick the apps where IAP gets you: games, streaming tips, subscription upsells. When you open one, the pause screen appears. Press Enter and IAP pauses everywhere on your phone, not just in the app you opened. You still walk into the app and use it: purchases are what pause. When you're ready, open Spend Toll. Every tolled app carries monthly limits you set when you add it: a few free window-opens, plus an optional spending line. Under those limits, opening a buying window is free. The pause and the math are the friction. Past either limit, that app costs a coin toll: 5 coins, or 4 with a plan (a one-line note of what you intend to buy). Either way a 5-minute buying window opens and IAP works for that one app during the window. A Live Activity counts the window down on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. When the window ends, IAP locks again on every app until you tap Resume normal IAP. Past your limits with no coins left? Then no window opens and IAP stays paused. Coins come back slowly: honest reports earn them one at a time, and emergency top-ups are capped at 3 a month, on purpose. PRICED IN YOUR HOURS Set your hourly wage once. Every IAP cost is reframed in hours of your work. A $9.99 cosmetic stops reading like "ten bucks." It reads like "20 minutes of work." NO "MONEY SAVED" MATH We never show "money saved." Stats only show real reported spend, real withstand counts, real time spent in buying windows. Draw your line: the monthly IAP amount you're OK with. Today shows where the month stands against it. End-of-month reflection asks you to guess what you spent versus the actual. The gap is the point. SPEND TOLL PRO: $19.99/YEAR, 7-DAY FREE TRIAL - Stats deep-dive: trend lines, top apps, reflection accuracy. - Hardcore Mode: pre-commit how many emergency coin packs you can buy in a month, below the built-in 3. Loosening it takes effect next month, by design. Tighten anytime. - Night Rule: a nightly stretch you set where no buying window can open. Tightening lands now; loosening waits until the night ends. - Frequency Bump: past a monthly window count you set, each further window that isn't free costs a few more coins, up to a cap. Loosening waits until next month. - Custom window duration: pick 3, 5, 10, or 15 minutes (Free is locked to 5). - Widgets: today's bill in work-hours on your Home Screen. EMERGENCY OVERRIDE For moments when reflection and waiting aren't enough, optional coin packs ($0.99 / $2.99 / $5.99). Capped at 3 purchases per calendar month across all tiers. If you find yourself hitting the cap, the friction is working. NO ACCOUNTS, NO SERVER, NO ANALYTICS The app runs entirely on your device. iCloud syncs your coin balance, hourly wage and coin pack receipts between your iOS devices. We have no servers and no behavioral analytics. Settings has an opt-in anonymous feedback form if you want to help us improve, but nothing tracks you by default. PART OF THE TOLL SERIES Spend Toll is for IAP impulse. Its sister app Dopa Toll handles screen time the same way: minutes of scroll, priced in your hours of work. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Spend Toll Pro is $19.99/year with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://spendtoll.app/privacy Made by Alex in Vancouver.