Forfeit vs OnPace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Forfeit
This app helps you build habits by creating accountability contracts. Set tasks, deadlines, and consequences for failure, with various verification methods to prove completion. Achieve your goals with a high success rate.
- Set habit contracts with deadlines
- Define consequences for missed habits
- Multiple verification methods (photo, timelapse, GPS, health data)
- AI and human verification options
- Track habits by day or specific days of the week
- Appeal failed forfeits
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Forfeit is an app that adds accountability to your habits. We're based on the scientifically backed concept of Habit Contracts - popularised by Atomic Habits - that adding accountability to completing habits is massively effective. Our 20k+ users have achieved a 94% success rate on over 75k forfeits. HOW IT WORKS 1. Set your forfeit Set the task/habit that you want to complete, when you want to complete it by, and how you'll be held accountable if you don't complete it. This can be sending an accountability buddy a text or email! 2. Submit your evidence Verify that you completed your habit using any of the methods defined below. This can be in the form of a photo, timelapse, self-verify, friend verify, GPS check-in, a web tracking limit, an Apple Health activity, a Strava run, a Whoop activity, a MyFitnessPal meal or anything else. 3. Or you fail If you don't send evidence in time, your accountability method is triggered. This rarely happens - only 6% of forfeits fail. If you do fail, you can appeal the failed forfeit - we only want you to fail if it's a willpower issue, not if life gets in the way! VERIFICATION METHODS • Photo Take a photo of the task that you completed, and an AI will verify if your photo matches your description. Examples: At the gym, inbox zero, Duolingo completed, homework submitted, taking medication. • Timelapse Record a timelapse of you completing the tasks that you completed, and a human will verify if your timelapse matches your description. Examples: Meditating, nighttime routine, stretching, working for 1hr. • Self-Verify Simply verify if you completed this task. No need for evidence! Examples: No smoking, no drinking, no vaping, absolutely anything! • Friend-Verify Have an accountability buddy testify to whether you did or didn't complete a task. Examples: No drinking, no phone in the house, no eating junk food. • Apple Health Set a threshold that you must cross in Apple Health (eg, 10,000 steps). Thousands of apps sync to this. Examples: 10,000 steps, 20 mins meditation, 30 min bike ride, less than 2000 calories consumed. • GPS Check-in Set a GPS location that you must be within 100m of by the deadline. Examples: Check into the gym, work on time, home by a certain time. • Location Reminders Get a reminder when you arrive at or leave a place you've saved, even when Forfeit is closed. Background location is optional. Examples: "You're home - time to walk the dog", "At the gym - log your workout". • GPS Avoid Set a location that you won't be within a certain radius of at the deadline. Examples: Not being at a bar on the weekends, leaving the house at a certain time. • RescueTime integration We sync with RescueTime, a web time-tracking app. You can use this to set thresholds on websites/desktop apps. Examples: Max 30 mins on reddit.com, minimum 2hrs on VSCode, max 30 mins on gmail.com • Pomodoro timer This is a timer that if you click off, you fail. Examples: Working for 30 mins, meditating for 20 mins, studying for 45 mins. OTHER FEATURES • X days/week: Set forfeits to be due a certain number of times per week (eg, work out 3x/week) • Certain days/week: Set forfeits only to be due on certain days (eg, weekdays, or Mo/We/Fr) • Appeal anything: If you have to skip a submission, simply send in an appeal, and it'll be reviewed in a few hours by a human. • Varying leniency modes: Depending on your leniency mode (lenient, normal, hard), you may or may not be required to justify your appeal with evidence. Hard mode doesn't allow appeals. • Screen Time integration: If you go over your limit, you're held accountable. Terms & Conditions: https://www.forfeit.app/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://www.forfeit.app/privacy-policy
OnPace
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OnPace. Confront the gap. OnPace is an accountability engine for three tasks a day. No more. OnPace will not praise you. OnPace will not let tasks sit in a list for three weeks. OnPace will force you, every single night, to decide what to do with every task you did not finish. What OnPace does differently - Three tasks a day. Enforced. Not a guideline. Three is the number that forces you to choose, and choosing is the actual work. - Carry strike escalation. Every time you push a task forward, it receives a red tally mark. On the third carry, the app forces a decision. Do it now, schedule a specific future date, or drop it on the record. There is no fourth strike. - Close Day ritual. Every task unresolved at the end of the day gets an explicit decision. Carry, complete, or drop. No silent rollover. No escape route. - Pattern intelligence in the Pro tier. A fourteen-day behavioural profile that computes which day of the week you are lying to yourself on, which category of task you consistently avoid, and the probability that any new task will be carried before you ever hit save. - Integrity score and integrity streak. The streak is a record of consecutive days with zero carries. Dropping a task keeps the streak alive. Carrying it breaks the streak. The score is a per-day reading of how honest your resolution ritual was. Zero praise. Zero gamification. Zero casino mechanics. Just the facts of what you did. OnPace is probably not for you if You want encouragement. You want a colour-coded dashboard. You want to plan forty tasks and feel good about finishing twelve. You want an app that makes to-do lists fun. OnPace is for you if You have tried every productivity app on this store. You know exactly what to do. You are avoiding the feeling of doing it. You want something that makes the avoidance harder than the task. About the Pro tier Pro is not more features. Pro is the app becoming mathematically self-aware of your avoidance. It recomputes your fourteen-day profile every night during Close Day and uses it to predict, warn, and analyse. The pattern context sent to our AI is roughly two hundred tokens of metadata. It does not include your task titles or any task content. Backups are encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM before they ever leave it. The encryption key lives in your iPhone Keychain and never touches our servers. Confront the gap. Subscription information OnPace Pro is an auto-renewing subscription that unlocks AI Insight, pace alerts, calendar sync, pattern profile, and encrypted cloud backup. - OnPace Pro Monthly. 4.99 USD per month. Price may vary by region. - OnPace Pro Yearly. 29.99 USD per year. Price may vary by region. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions and cancel renewal in your iOS account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy policy: https://onpace.day/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: OnPace at none against Forfeit's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Forfeit sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and OnPace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Forfeit ships an update every 9 days, OnPace every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forfeit | OnPace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (375 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 375 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 255 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forfeit, Inc | Karo Bonas |
Bugs and requests
Forfeit
Reported bugs
3 issues- Screen blocking feature not working on iOS
- Inconsistent verification and approval process
- Occasional app crashes or freezes
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to donate forfeited funds to charity
- Integration with more third-party apps and services
- Customizable notification and reminder system
- Improved user interface and design
OnPace
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Forfeit
- Premium Weekly$3.997 Days
- Pro Weekly$5.997 Days
- Forfeit Premium$7.991 Month
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- Forfeit Pro$12.991 Month
- 1 Month Overlord Subscription$12.991 Month
- Forfeit Premium Yearly$59.991 Year
- Forfeit Pro Yearly$99.991 Year
OnPace
- OnPace Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Annual$29.991 Year









