A tollbooth for your phone
You earn tokens by doing things that matter. Opening a tolled app costs tokens. When you run out, the barrier comes down. It is not a blocker. You can always get through. You just have to have paid for it first.
iPhone, iOS 17 or laterNo account14 days of Premium on install, no card
Blockers are switched off in a moment of weakness. A toll is paid or it is not. The barrier never argues with you, it quotes a price.
No leaderboard, no chain to protect, no notification designed to pull you back. Toll does not praise you for clearing a task and does not shame you for buying an hour.
No account, no sign-up, no server. Your tasks, your ledger and your balance live on this phone and stay there.
How it works
A day in Toll has four moves, in this order. The numbers below are the shipped defaults. Premium opens them to editing.
Write down a few tasks for the day and pick how each one will be proven. The planning window closes at 11:00 so tasks are set before the day gets away.
Payout per task 5 to 30 tokens
Mark a task done and its tokens land in your balance. A payout matures for 30 minutes before it can be spent, so a task cannot be cleared and cashed in the same breath.
Daily earning ceiling 90 tokens
Pick the apps you want to limit. Open one and the barrier quotes you a price for the minutes you want. Pay it and the app opens for exactly that long.
Base rate 1 token per minute, blocks of 5
Yesterday's discipline does not fund today's scrolling. The balance resets overnight and the rate ladder starts again from the bottom.
Carry-over none
The rate
The rate escalates within a day: 1×, 1.25×, 1.5×, then 2× for every session after that. It prices binges without punishing ordinary use. Try a quote.
15 minutes × 1 token per minute × 1.5. Rounded up to the next token.
Four ways to prove it
Every task carries a verification method. The harder it is to fake, the more it pays.
Say it happened. It pays the base rate. Toll takes your word, and records that it did.
Attach a photo. It pays the same as stated. The photo is for you, not for us. It never leaves the phone.
Run a timer while you work. Leaving the app pauses it. Pays more than a stated task.
Let Health confirm the steps, the workout, the mindful minutes or the stand hours. Pays the most, and it is the only kind that escapes the daily earning ceiling.
The ledger
With the time and the reason. Nothing is summarised away, nothing is hidden behind a score. If you bought an hour at 2× on Tuesday night, Tuesday night says so.
On Sunday it adds up into a receipt: what the week cost, and what paid for it. Share it as an image if you like. It is 1080 by 1920, and it names no apps, because Toll never knows them.
What it does not do
Toll is built on Apple's Screen Time permissions, which you grant explicitly and can revoke any time in Settings. What the system hands over is a sealed token, not a name or an icon.
| Data | Linked to you | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Purchase history | No | App functionality |
| Product interaction | No | Analytics |
| Health, photos, tasks, app list, location, contacts, identifiers | Not collected | |
Tollapp_openedtrial_startedpurchase_completedpurchase_restoredThe screens
Eight screens, the same in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. Dynamic Type and right-to-left layouts are first-class, not afterthoughts.
Scroll sideways for all eight screens, as they appear on the App Store.
Questions
You can always get through, that is the point. But you get through by paying tokens you earned, or by using your one free pass a week. Revoking Screen Time permission in Settings also removes the barrier entirely. Toll is a tool for you, not a lock someone else holds.
No. Toll is a self-control tool for its own user. It has no remote configuration, no second account, and no way for another person to see or set anything.
Any app or category Apple's Screen Time picker offers. The free tier covers two apps, Premium has no limit. Toll never learns which ones you chose.
No. Tokens are earned only by clearing tasks. Premium changes the limits of the app, never the balance.
It is gone. There is no account and no server copy. Tasks, the ledger, photos and the shared container all live inside the app on your phone.
Toll is iPhone only, on iOS 17 or later. It depends on Apple's Screen Time framework, which has no equivalent elsewhere.
Because a day does not end at midnight for most people. Expiring at 03:00 lets a late evening finish as one day and starts the new ladder while you sleep. Premium lets you move the hour.