Comparison

Bond vs Held

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bond

Features
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Building habits alone is hard. Staying consistent with others makes it easier. Bond app helps you create shared habits with friends, classmates, or family — so everyone stays accountable and motivated together. Create or join rooms, set daily habits, and check in with a single tap. When everyone commits, your streak grows. Miss a day, and the streak resets — for everyone. It’s simple, fair, and motivating. Key Features: • Shared habit rooms with friends • Easy daily check-ins • Group streaks that reset daily • Gentle reminders and nudges • Clean and simple design Whether you’re trying to build better routines, stay productive, or support each other’s goals, this app turns habits into a shared experience. Start small. Stay consistent. Grow together.

About

Held

This app helps you achieve your goals by making them public and accountable. Set deadlines, choose a witness, and receive regular check-ins and reminders to stay on track. Your progress is recorded in an honest ledger, ensuring permanent verdicts on your commitments.

Highlights
  • Set goals with deadlines and witnesses
  • Daily or weekly check-ins
  • Honest progress ledger
  • Customizable reminders
  • Private by design, no account needed
  • JSON data export
  • Stakes and renegotiation options
Features
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Goals fail quietly. Held makes them loud. A goal doesn't exist here until it has a deadline and a witness — someone you name, who gets your commitment in writing. Held walks you through it in three steps: the goal, the timeline, the person who will hold you to it. Give it a photograph too, if you want one. Then it sends your commitment through your own Messages or Mail, and the clock starts. THE DAY MARKER Open the app and one number faces you: the day you're on, out of the days you have. No dashboards, no confetti. Just the count. CHECK-INS ON A FIXED CADENCE Daily or weekly — you pick the rhythm when you commit. On check-in days Held asks for three honest things: on track, behind, or done; one line of progress; one next step. Add a photograph too, if you want one. Then it composes the message to your witness. You send it yourself. AN HONEST LEDGER Miss a check-in and it goes on the record. It stays on the record, and your next message to your witness owns up to it. Any photograph you added sits beside that day's line. On deadline day the ledger demands a verdict: kept or missed. Verdicts are permanent. REMINDERS THAT HOLD YOU TO IT A reminder on every check-in day, at the hour you choose. An evening nudge if the check-in is still open. A warning three days from the deadline, another the day before, and a final one when the ledger wants its verdict. Optional daily nudges for weekly goals. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No backend. No analytics. Everything lives on your device, with JSON export whenever you want your data. Held never sends anything on your behalf — every message goes out through your own apps, in your own name. Also: a progress bar on every goal, renegotiation (changing a deal means telling your witness first), stakes ("if I miss, I owe Sandy a spa day"), multiple goals and witnesses, and an interface with nothing to fiddle with. Put something on the line.

Screenshots

Bond4 screens
Held4 screens

Verdict

The call

Bond and Held are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bond ships an update fortnightly, Held every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Bond versus Held: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBondHeld
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoud AljabriTheodor Younany

In-app purchases

None

Bond

No in-app purchases

None

Held

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bond free?
Bond is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Held free?
Held is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bond or Held have ads?
Neither Bond nor Held shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bond or Held?
Bond ships an update fortnightly, and Held every 3 weeks. Most recently, Bond was updated on October 25, 2026 and Held on October 31, 2026.

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