Comparison

Tonic vs Eyle

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tonic

This app helps you build good habits by making them unlock your other apps. It allows you to set limits on distracting apps and rewards productive behavior. You can customize rules to integrate with your existing life and achieve your goals.

Highlights
  • Habit-based app unlocking
  • Customizable screen time limits
  • Integration with Apple Health
  • Flexible rule setting
  • Productive minute banking
  • Escalating pause feature
Features
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Your phone works in the wrong order. Tonic isn't just another app blocker: your good habits unlock your apps, and the ones that only need boundaries get limits that fit. You bought the books. You downloaded Duolingo. You signed up for the meditation app. Tonic puts those things first, and lets your phone cooperate with the life you're already building. HOW IT WORKS Set any app as a reward for your good habits. Tonic tracks what would be too hard to log yourself: your progress in apps like Kindle or Duolingo, calories burned, whether you meditated this morning, even whether you've gotten outside. Require your habits each day, or bank productive minutes to spend later. For apps that only need boundaries, Tonic adapts to the problem: screen time limits by hours or by visits, cooldowns between sessions, or moments of pause that escalate the more you reach for it. You choose what locked looks like: a gentle nudge toward the good thing, a strict wall, or a pause that grows each time you haven't earned it. WORKS WITH THE APPS YOU ALREADY LOVE Reading, workouts, meditation, steps, sunlight, and sleep come straight from Apple Health and your Apple Watch, or from time spent in the productive apps you choose. No logging, no proof photos, no check-ins. And the unlock is real: when your habit counts, the shield lifts on its own. You don't open Tonic to prove anything or unlock anything by hand. Finish your reading, and your apps are simply open when you reach for them. WHAT YOU CAN SET UP Every app is a different problem. Rules can look like: "Don't let me into social media for longer than five minutes at a time until my watch has registered 20 minutes of sunlight." "Make it harder each time I reach for Instagram if I've used it more than Duolingo today." "After 5 visits on the weekend, make me pause when I reach for Slack or Teams." "When I reach for social media in the morning, redirect my phone to my journaling app." "Hard block mobile games until I've worked out three times in the last week, then give me an hour each earned day." YOURS TO CONTROL Tonic is self-directed and built for adults. You pick the apps, you set the rules, and you can change them whenever you want. No account. No parent. No lock you can't open. Your habits stay on your device. Tonic never sees which apps you chose, and your rules never leave your phone. Pick one app that gets in your way and one habit you keep meaning to do. Start there. A tonic for your habits. Break the bad, build the good. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tonichabits.com/privacy

About

Eyle

Features
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Eyle does more than block distracting apps. It creates a short decision pause when you open an app on autopilot. If you genuinely need it, take timed access to only the app you choose; when time is up, the access limit returns automatically. PAUSE, DECIDE, RETURN Most tools either block everything or only count time. Eyle adds a deliberate decision point: do you want to continue, or return to what you actually meant to do? LIMIT THE APPS YOU CHOOSE Use Apple's FamilyActivityPicker to select apps, categories, or web domains. Eyle applies access limits only to your selections through Apple Screen Time. TIMED ACCESS TO ONE APP Even when several apps are limited, you can temporarily open only the app you need while every other limit stays in place. When time expires, full protection returns automatically. RETURN TO YOUR FIRST REAL-WORLD STEP While calm, define one goal and three practical steps. After the decision pause, start the first step, make it smaller if needed, and honestly record whether you began. Eyle never assigns progress or focus time that you did not confirm. FREE AND PRO Your first three app limits are free. Pro unlocks new app limits, full return history, and unlimited online plan generation when you opt in. Emergency access and restoring an active limit early are never paywalled. Apple's purchase sheet shows the current price, period, and any offer available to you. PRIVACY Eyle does not read messages, contacts, or the content of selected apps. Screen Time selections stay on your device as Apple opaque tokens. The core flow needs no account or internet connection. Online plans run only with your explicit consent. Privacy: https://webora.team/eyle/privacy Terms: https://webora.team/eyle/terms Subscription rules: https://webora.team/eyle/subscription-rules

Screenshots

Tonic4 screens
Eyle4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tonic and Eyle are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tonic sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Eyle sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tonic ships an update every 4 days, Eyle every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tonic versus Eyle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTonicEyle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (43 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings43 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSets Studio LLCMUSTAFA GOZHAMAM

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tonic

Subscriptions2
  • Tonic Unlimited7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Tonic Unlimited7 Days trial$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Eyle

Subscriptions2
  • Eyle Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Eyle Pro Yıllık$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Tonic free?
Tonic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Eyle free?
Eyle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tonic or Eyle have ads?
Neither Tonic nor Eyle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tonic or Eyle?
Tonic ships an update every 4 days, and Eyle every 3 days. Most recently, Tonic was updated on October 17, 2026 and Eyle on October 15, 2026.

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