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A free iOS app that adds intentional friction to impulse in-app purchases — gacha pulls, game packs, live-stream tips, subscription upsells. It reframes every IAP as a cost in the hours you worked for it (using your hourly wage), then makes you pay a small coin toll to open a short buying window before IAP works.

You always have the choice. Spend Toll just makes the cost visible and adds a beat of friction so the decision gets made on purpose, not on autopilot.

1. Pick the apps where IAP gets you — on the Tolls tab.
2. When you open one, Spend Toll's pause screen appears. Press Close to walk away, or Enter — which pauses IAP everywhere on your phone and queues that app up.
3. To actually buy, open Spend Toll, set a $ plan for each queued app, and pay a coin toll 5 coins · 4 if you planned to open a buying window (5 min by default).
4. IAP works for that set of apps during the window. A Live Activity counts it down on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
5. When the window ends, IAP locks again — across your whole phone — until you tap Resume normal IAP.

Because friction is the product. A simple on/off blocker is too easy to disable in a weak moment. Pairing every buying window with a coin toll — plus an honest report afterward — makes you feel the tradeoff in the moment, instead of tapping by reflex.

Fair question. The test we hold ourselves to: does our revenue grow when you fail? Structurally, it can't. Emergency coin packs are hard-capped at 3 purchases a month across all sizes — even a complete relapse is worth at most ~$18 to us, and you can't build a business on that. That's the point: the business has to live on Pro, and Pro only renews if the tool actually works for you.

Coins are earned back free through honest reports, so the packs are a safety valve, not an engine. And Pro never sells a way around the friction — it sells stricter tools (Hardcore Mode) and deeper stats. Spend Toll isn't against spending; it's against unconsidered spending — our own prices are flat, disclosed, never discounted into bulk bait, and the trial reminds you before it charges. If we ever remove the monthly cap or start discounting bigger packs, hold us to this answer.

You start with a balance, and earn more by filing an honest report after a buying window — what you actually spent, even if it was $0. File within 24 hours for the full reward +2; later still earns +1.

If you run dry, optional emergency coin packs are available — but they're capped at 3 purchases per month, on purpose. We never translate earned coins into a dollar figure; coins are a friction unit, not a currency.

When a buying window ends, IAP stays locked across your whole phone — not just guarded apps — until you open Spend Toll and tap Resume normal IAP. That one extra step is deliberate: it's the accountability beat that closes the loop and gets non-guarded apps (Spotify, your newspaper, etc.) buying normally again.

Go to the Tolls tab → tap the app → Remove. The button shows Remove · instant if you've never opened a buying window for that app, or Remove · tomorrow if you have — a one-day delay (anti-cheat), so removal can't be used as a one-tap bypass.

Open Settings → Troubleshooting → Delete usage data, then uninstall the app. Screen Time / Family Controls permission is revoked automatically when you delete the app. Coins you purchased through Apple are preserved.

Check that Family Controls authorization is still granted. Open Spend Toll → Tolls tab → if you see a Reconnect Screen Time card, tap it to re-authorize. Spend Toll can only show its pause screen on apps you've added on the Tolls tab — apps you haven't added are never touched.

Your coin balance and hourly wage back up to your own iCloud (Key-Value Store). Sign in to the same Apple ID on both devices, and make sure iCloud Drive is on: Settings → [Your name] → iCloud → iCloud Drive → On. Then open Spend Toll on both devices.

Note: only those two values sync — no usage history leaves your device.

Coin packs are processed by Apple. If Apple confirms the purchase but coins didn't arrive, force-quit and reopen Spend Toll — it re-syncs entitlements on launch. If they're still missing, email hi@spendtoll.app with your Apple receipt and I'll resolve it manually.

That's your receipt confirmation — +N coins after a pack, or You're on Pro after a subscription. The sheet auto-closes a moment later. If you don't see the green banner and the sheet stays open, the purchase didn't go through — try again, or email me.

That's by design. When a window ends, IAP re-locks across your whole phone, not just guarded apps. Open Spend Toll and tap Resume normal IAP to restore in-app purchases everywhere.

Spend Toll Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription — $39.99 USD / year, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.

To manage or cancel:

• Inside Spend Toll (fastest): Settings → Pro card → Manage subscription.
• From iOS Settings: Settings → [Your name] → Subscriptions → Spend Toll Pro.

Both routes open the same Apple-managed sheet.