Pactroll Download on the App Store

When you try to quit an app

Delete. Reinstall. Repeat?

Lock it instead.

Pactroll helps you ride out the urge.

Download on the App Store

Why quitting an app is so hard

One tap to delete.One tap to get it back.

Deleting removes the app — not the urge.

Why Pactroll works

  1. 01

    Lock it.

    Pick the apps. Unlike deleting, a lock isn’t one tap to undo.

  2. 02

    Feel the urge? Tap.

    Urges build, peak and pass. Give it five minutes.

  3. 03

    Still want it? 15 minutes.

    Then it locks again on its own.

Whatever pulls you in.

One more pull. Then one more.

Why we’re different

Built on decades of research.

Block it and hope.

Ride out the urge.

Urges build, peak and fade on their own. We help you wait for the fade.

Urge surfing — Marlatt & Gordon, 1985; Bowen & Marlatt, 2009
Just don’t think about it.

Do something else.

Pushing a thought away brings it back. Five minutes of something else helps it pass.

Wegner et al., 1987
One slip, start over.

A slip isn’t a reset.

Break a strict rule and many people just give up. Your day count keeps going.

Polivy & Herman, 2020; Larimer et al., 1999
Daily check-ins and streaks.

We stay quiet.

Reminders can spark the urge. We’re there when you need us.

Carter & Tiffany, 1999

Willpower runs out.Your lock doesn’t.

No account. Your data stays on your iPhone.

Download on the App Store