Held vs troth

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.

Some promises are easy to make and hard to keep. The gym on the morning you don't want to. The thing you swore off. The person you're not texting back. troth is for those. Write the promise in your own words. On day 30, the you who meant it is still there to say why. Then check in once a day. One tap. Quit promises count themselves, so a day you never opened the app can't break a promise you actually kept. Hold On is for the hard hour: your own words, your streak on the line, and 90 seconds of breathing. "I held on" gets logged. So does "I slipped." Note how the day felt, and troth shows you whether your promises held on the heavy days. When the month closes, troth writes you a short letter about it: what you held, what came back, what you didn't. Written on your phone, from your own record, and sent nowhere. Progress isn't always linear, and the charts know it. A bad week bends the line. It doesn't erase it. There are no points to chase. Works offline. Syncs to your other devices. Widgets for your home screen. No ads, no tracking. Keep your promises. troth remembers why you made them.