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Sign the contract
Pick the apps that own you — Instagram, TikTok, whichever. Set your price per unlock: from $1 to a number that actually stops you. Cap the weekly damage so one bad week can't ruin you. Sign.
The app that charges you real money to open Instagram.
You pick the apps to block. You set the price per unlock. When you can't wait, that price is charged — for real. When you can, waiting is free.
Yes, we keep the money.
Phone addiction is well studied. So is what interrupts it: a cost you feel. In a six-week PNAS trial a forced pause alone cut target-app opens by about 57%. We charge for the pause you'd skip. The research
— your weakness, itemized —
Live demo
Blocked
Instagram
This door opens for $1.
PAYWALL INC.
FAILURE DIVISION
RECEIPT #00489:41 AM
1× OPENING INSTAGRAM$1.00
DOPAMINE, ~15 MINFREE*
DAMAGE THIS WEEK$7.00
YOUR CHANGE$0.00
*while it lasts
RETAIN THIS RECEIPT.
IT IS THE ONLY THING
YOU WILL BE GETTING BACK.
IT IS THE ONLY THING
YOU WILL BE GETTING BACK.
Confirmation required
A real $1. For Instagram.
The wall has reviewed your circumstances. It found them billable.
Price set by you. Past you.
Complaints go to them.
How it works
02
Hit the wall
Reach for the app; meet the wall instead. Two exits. One bills. The other has always been free: wait out the delay you chose, and the door opens for $0.00.
03
Pay or don't
Can't wait? That's a real charge, gone for good, printed on an itemized receipt. Wait it out and a receipt still prints: 1× WAITING … $0.00. PAID IN FULL.
The boring part: it's science.
Among people who accept them, deposit contracts — your own cash on the line — produce some of the largest behavior-change effects ever measured (NEJM). A forced pause alone cuts app opens by 57% (PNAS).
Where does the money go?
To us.
Yes, we keep the money. Every dollar of it will have been paid voluntarily, at a price you set, by someone who could have waited for free.
Collected in unlock fees, to date
$0.00
The app is not out yet. The wall is patient.
Pricing
FREE, UNLESS.
PRICE LIST
RESISTING$0.00
WAITING$0.00
NOT WAITINGYOUR PRICE, FROM $1
WEEKLY CAPSET BY YOU
ARMING THE WALLSUBSCRIPTION
IT IS THE ONLY APP ON YOUR PHONE THAT GETS CHEAPER THE LESS YOU USE IT.
Frequently filed complaints
COMPLAINT LOG
Q: DO YOU ACTUALLY KEEP THE MONEY?
— YES, WE KEEP THE MONEY.
Q: IS THAT ETHICAL?
— ITEM NOT FOUND.
Q: DO YOU WANT ME TO FAIL?
— THE LEDGER BALANCES EITHER WAY.
Q: HOW MUCH?
— YOUR PRICE. FLOOR: $1. CAP: YOURS, WEEKLY.
Q: IS THERE A FREE OPTION?
— YES. WAITING. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN FREE. (SEC. 12.4B)
Q: WHAT IF I JUST DELETE THE APP?
— THE WALL DOES NOT TAKE IT PERSONALLY.
Q: WHEN?
— IPHONE FIRST. US FIRST. THE LINE DECIDES.
Q: WHO ARE YOU?
— THE DEPARTMENT THAT ANSWERS THIS QUESTION IS CLOSED. SEE: RECEIPT.
The same answers in plain English, no jokes: /honesty — prices, the free wait, refunds, cancellation.
Get in line
WAITLIST RECEIPT
POSITIONSECURED
COST TO JOIN$0.00
FUTURE LOSSESTBD (BY YOU)
WE WILL EMAIL YOU
WHEN THE WALL IS READY
WHEN THE WALL IS READY
demo mode: waitlist API not connected — this email was not stored
The paperwork
Filed reading: what blocks, what fails, and what the research says. All of it free, like waiting.
- The best app blockers for iPhone, ranked8 blockers, by what a bypass costs you
- Why app blockers don't workevery one is consensual; here is what holds
- How to block apps on iPhoneevery method, and how each one fails
- How to block Instagram on iPhonefive honest methods, one that sticks
- Earn-your-screen-time appstouch grass, squats, steps — why they stop working
- Opal alternativessix apps like Opal, free to hardcore
- Apps that charge you to unlockthe category, priced
- Does money on the line break habits?the evidence, plain English