Estimate the true 5-year cost of a Yondr-style phone-pouch program — unit price, annual replacements, unlocking hardware, and daily staff labor — and compare it to phone-free software. Free interactive calculator for schools and districts.
Magnetic phone-pouch programs cost far more than their sticker price. This free calculator estimates the true five-year total cost of ownership of a Yondr-style pouch program for your school or district, then lets you compare it to phone-free software.
Yondr’s publicly reported pricing is roughly $25–$30 per student, but pouches are consumables: a share are lost or damaged every year (commonly cited at 15–20%) and must be re-purchased. On top of hardware, staff spend real time each day distributing, collecting, and unlocking pouches — labor that never appears on a vendor quote.
The calculator adds up pouch unit cost, annual replacements, and daily staff labor over five years so you can compare a pouch program to a software subscription on equal footing. Enter your enrollment, pouch cost, replacement rate, daily staff minutes, and staff wage to see a modeled five-year total.
LockedIn removes the three recurring costs that make pouches expensive: no consumable pouches to replace, no unlocking bases at every entrance, and no daily collection labor because enforcement is automated at the device level. It also produces the compliance reporting pouches structurally cannot. District pricing is quoted per school — contact us for a written comparison, or read our Yondr alternative breakdown.