Spend Toll: Curb In-App Buys

By HON TAT CHOU on AppTrack Ninja.

Limit IAP · priced in hours

A $39.99 in-app pack = 1.3 hours of your work. Spend Toll shows that math every time you reach for IAP, and adds enough friction that the math gets seen before the tap. THE FRICTION MODEL Pick the apps where IAP gets you: games, streaming tips, subscription upsells. When you open one, Spend Toll's pause screen appears: "A $39.99 pack = 1.3 hours of your work." Press Enter and IAP pauses everywhere on your phone, not just in the app you opened. The queue starts. You still walk into the app and use it: purchases are what pause. Open more apps, press Enter on each, queue them up. When you're rea…

Categories: Finance, Productivity

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