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Tollie is an iPhone app blocker for adults. To open a blocked app you walk to a spot in another room and scan it, or walk a few hundred real steps. No passcode, no "Ignore Limit" button, no subscription needed.
The one-paragraph version
Every screen time tool fails the same way: the way out is one tap away. Apple's Screen Time ends with a button called Ignore Limit. Blocker apps unlock with a passcode you know. Brick fixed it with a $59 gadget on your wall. Tollie fixes it with a corner of your kitchen. During setup you scan a spot in another room; to open Instagram at midnight you get out of bed and scan it again. Tollie keeps a 3D map of the scene on the phone, and nothing leaves it: no account, no server, no analytics. One booth is free forever and the full app is a single payment.
Facts
- Name: Tollie: Screen Time Blocker. iPhone, iOS 17 or later.
- Maker: Magentic B.V., Netherlands. Designed and built by Ayça Gökalp.
- Released: October 2026, worldwide on the App Store.
- Price: Free for one toll booth, one key, Break Glass and every safety feature. Tollie Forever €59.99 once at launch (rising in two announced steps). Tollie Plus €39.99 a year or €6.99 a month.
- The key: a photo key (scan a spot in another room; a picture of it on another screen is refused) or a walk key (100 to 2,000 real steps, shaking doesn't count).
- The toll: one 10-minute pass per trip. Passes don't stack. On the Strict level each pass in the same block costs more: 300, 600, 1,200, then 2,000 steps.
- The ratchet: stricter applies instantly; easier waits 24 hours.
- Break Glass: 30 minutes, once a week, no key. A named witness gets a note. Phone, Messages, Maps, Camera, Health and Settings can never be blocked.
- Privacy: App Store label "Data Not Collected". Sync through the user's own iCloud.
- Tagline: A little mission. Then admission. Positioning line: The key isn't on your phone.
Why now
Governments in France, the Netherlands and Germany are debating social media age limits for children. Adults get no law. They get a weekly screen time report and a button called Ignore. Tollie is for the 25-to-40-year-old who has already paid for a blocker, beaten it, and wants a rule that the 11pm version of them cannot undo.
Screenshots
Six App Store screenshots, 1320 × 2868, free to use in coverage of Tollie. Right-click to save, or ask for the originals.
App icon: 512 px PNG.