Dopamine Toll

Anti-procrastination overlay that intercepts blocked domains with a motivational gate.

Dopamine Toll puts a price on distraction. When you open a site on your block list like X, Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube Shorts a full-screen gate covers the page before it loads and a countdown begins. While it runs, you see a photo of a goal you set (your "north star") and a reminder you wrote to yourself. Only when the countdown ends can you decide: close the tab and stay productive, or open the site anyway for a time limit you choose. When that window ends, the toll returns. It is friction, not a hard block, the choice stays yours, but you have to slow down and make it on purpose. Features: • Your block list — add any site, or just one section of it (for example, youtube.com/shorts gates Shorts but leaves the rest of YouTube open). Subdomains are included automatically. • North star photos — upload up to 8 images of what you are working toward; one appears at random on each gate. • Personal reminders — write your own phrases; one shows with the photo each time. • Adjustable friction — set the countdown (10 to 120 seconds) and how long a paid unlock lasts (1 to 30 minutes). • Friction reminders — paying does not end the toll. While an unlocked site is open, warning cards tumble onto the page, each carrying one of your phrases and how long the tab has held you. Ignore them and they pile up — one more card each wave — and every one has to be closed by hand. Set how often a wave arrives (every 1 to 60 minutes) or switch them off. • Honest by design — the countdown pauses when you switch tabs or apps, so you cannot wait it out in the background. • Per-tab unlocks — an unlock applies only to that tab and resets when you close the browser. • Works on modern sites — catches in-app navigation on single-page apps like X, Reddit, and Instagram, not just full page loads. • Daily tally — see how often you walked away versus paid, and pick from four color themes. Privacy: Dopamine Toll runs entirely on your device. It makes no network requests and has no accounts, ads, analytics, or trackers. Your settings, photos, and stats stay in your browser; settings sync only through your own Chrome account if you have sync enabled. Full privacy policy: https://github.com/dankhael/DopamineToll/blob/main/PRIVACY.md