Coming to iPhone
Said it,
kept it.
Set a goal, put money on it, and bring a friend. KeptIt reads the result from your own devices, so nobody has to take your word for it.
How it works
- 01Pick what you're committing to Steps, distance, flights climbed, sleep or exercise.
- 02Set the goal, the days, and the stake $10 is plenty. What matters is that you meant it.
- 03Bring a friend, or go alone It's harder to quietly give up when someone is watching.
- 04Your devices settle it iPhone, Apple Watch or Oura Ring. No self-reporting, no screenshots.
This is the app
Pick a challenge type to see what it looks like while it's running.
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About the money
KeptIt never holds it, moves it, or takes a cut. A stake is an agreement between two people. The app keeps a record of what you agreed to and what happened. When it's time to settle up, it opens Venmo or PayPal and gets out of the way.
What's coming
KeptIt launches doing one thing: you and a friend, one goal, real money on it, settled by your own devices and not by either of you. Everything below is next, roughly in order.
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See what everyone's keeping
A feed of your friends' challenges: who's on day four of what, who just took a pot off someone, whose streak died last night. Right now you only see the challenges you're in, which makes a social app feel like a private one.
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Quests you can post
Finish a week of mornings or a month of a thousand flights and you get a card worth putting on a story: your sphere, the streak, the number. "I said I'd do it and here's the proof" is the whole point, and right now it stops at your screen.
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Groups, and a table
More than two. Everyone stakes, most days won takes the pot, and there's a standing table worth screenshotting on the last day.
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Rivalries
Play the same person twice and it starts keeping score across challenges: the running record, who's ahead, who owes who over the year. The rematch is the feature.
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More things to be counted by
Whoop, Garmin, Fitbit and the rest. Right now it's Apple Health and Oura, which leaves out anyone whose training already lives somewhere else, and a challenge you have to remember to record isn't one this app can settle.
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Body composition, by percentage
Connect a Bluetooth scale and compete on percentage change rather than pounds, so two people at different starting weights are actually playing the same game. Verified by the scale, like everything else here, so you don't type the number in.
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Your numbers, read back to you
Which days you actually keep, how long a streak survives, whether money makes any difference for you, what time of day you give up. The app already records every bit of it and tells you nothing.
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Money on a solo challenge
Solo streaks work today: you commit, your devices verify, the streak holds or it doesn't. What's missing is a stake, because with nobody on the other side there's nowhere for forfeited money to go. Next: pick a charity when you start, and missing it actually costs you.
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