Keep your word.
Or pay for it.
Commit to something, choose how it'll be proved and what a miss costs, then sign it with your finger. Oathful checks the proof. If the deadline passes without it, the miss lands, and you don't get to decide that on the day.
The commitments people break most are the ones Oathful holds.
A commitment you can't talk your way out of.
What you'll do, when, how it's proved and what a miss costs, read back as one sentence and signed with your finger. When the day comes, the only way through is to do it.
1 hour left · $5 on the line
Kept · your 30-minute focus session is done
12 minutes left · 3 apps blocked if you miss
Broken · your photo didn’t pass the review. You can appeal for 24 hours.
How it works.
Choose how it'll be proved, set when it's due and what a miss costs, and sign it. Prove it before the deadline, or the miss costs exactly what you said it would.
Choose how it's proved
A photo, a timer, a place, Screen Time, Apple Health, or your word.
Set it and sign it
When it's due, what a miss costs, how strict it is.
Keep it, or it costs you
Your record, your apps, or money. You choose.
Proved by PhotoScreenshotPremiumBefore & afterPremiumTimelapsePremiumFocus timerPhone downGPS check-inGPS automatic check-inPremiumGPS stayPremiumGPS stay awayPremiumScreen Time limitPremiumApple HealthPremiumManual mark done
For every part of your life.
Work, money, home, the people you love. If it has a deadline and a way to show it happened, Oathful can hold you to it.
Send three job applications, every weekday.
A screenshotMove $50 to savings, every Friday.
A screenshotStudy for 45 minutes, every weeknight.
Phone downClean the kitchen, every Sunday.
Before & afterAt the gym by 7, Mon · Wed · Fri.
A GPS check-inMeditate for 10 minutes, every morning.
Apple HealthUnder an hour of TikTok, every day.
Screen TimeCall Mom, every Sunday.
Manual mark doneWrite for an hour, every weekday.
Focus timerMake my bed, before 9 AM.
A photoEverything lives in one quiet app.
Today is what's due.
The next commitment on one big card: the time left to the second, how it's proved and what a miss costs. Swipe for the rest of the day; the strip underneath shows the days around it.
Your word to yourself is the easiest to break.
See what a slip costs over a year.
$520 a year
if nothing changes
86%
of days kept, on a daily habit
How Oathful compares.
| Feature |  Oathful |
Habit trackers | Reminders | A friend who checks in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proof, not a checkbox | ||||
| Something at stake on a miss | ||||
| Terms hold after the first hourA commitment can be changed or deleted freely in its first hour. After that its terms hold, and getting out of it uses one of a few lifetime deletes. | ||||
| Locked until a date you pickA Locked commitment can't be changed, paused or deleted until its last day. | ||||
| Appeal a check, dispute a charge | ||||
| A weekly limit on what you can lose | ||||
| There at 10 PM, every day | ||||
| An honest record of every day | ||||
| Proof | Photo, timer, GPS, Screen Time, Apple Health | A tap | None | Their word |
| What a miss costs | What you set | Nothing | Nothing | An awkward chat |
Give your word. Then keep it.
“I give my word to train at the gym every Mon, Wed and Fri by 7:00 AM, proved by a GPS check-in. If I miss, I’m charged $10 USD.”
“I give my word to study for 45 minutes every weeknight by 9:00 PM, proved by a focus timer. If I miss, my apps lock until morning.”
“I give my word to send the application by Friday at 5:00 PM, proved by a photo. If I miss, I’m charged $25 USD.”
Make room for what matters.
Lock a habit to an end date, weeks or months away. Once it's signed, it can't be changed, paused or deleted until that day.
Sign your first commitment.
Hold the button and your name writes itself while a ring runs round it. Let go early and the ink comes back off. Make it Locked, and nothing in it changes until the day it ends.
Try it: press and hold Hold to sign on the screen.
Signed means signed.
Make it Locked and it holds until the end date you picked, weeks or months away. You can't edit it, pause it or delete it on a bad week.
- You give your word to check in at the gym by 10:00 PM every Mon, Wed and Fri, until Monday, December 14.
- If you miss, you're charged $5 USD, up to $15 a week. It goes on your record either way.
Once signed, nothing in it can change until it ends on December 14: not its days, its proof, or what a miss costs.
Questions, answered.
You commit to something and sign it: what you'll do, when, how it'll be proved and what a miss costs. Oathful checks the proof. If the deadline passes without it, the miss goes on your record and costs what you said it would, and you don't get to decide that on the day.
Anything you can commit to and show you did. Send three job applications. Move $50 to savings every Friday. Clean the kitchen on Sundays. Call your mom. Keep TikTok under an hour a day. Study, read, train, get to bed on time. If it has a deadline and a way to prove it, Oathful can hold you to it.
Not yet. Oathful is coming to iPhone first. Leave your email and we'll tell you when it's out, and when Android follows.
No. Every miss goes on your record and breaks your streak, and that's the floor. Without money, you can lock the apps you pick until a time you choose, owe a make-up by the next day, or, on Premium, have Oathful email someone you name. Money is something you add, and it's never allowed on a commitment you mark done yourself.
Oathful keeps it. It doesn't go to a charity, because money you'd feel good about giving away isn't much of a stake. A miss always costs the same, and a weekly limit you set caps the total.
What protects you: an email 12 hours before any charge, a way to dispute it in the app (nothing is charged until it's answered), never more than $100 in a day, an automatic refund if a miss is overturned, and no charge at all for a day Oathful itself was down.
If you put money on a commitment and miss it, yes: Oathful keeps that money, and we'd rather say so than hide it. That's why the rules are built to be fair. Money only rides on a proof that gets checked, never on your word alone. You get 12 hours' notice before a charge, you can dispute it in the app, a day Oathful was down is excused, and there's a weekly limit you set and a $100-a-day cap. Money is also optional: a miss can just go on your record.
No, and that's the point. A Locked commitment can't be changed, paused, stopped or deleted until the last day you picked. You'll want out on a bad day, but you signed it on a good one. The one give: a single day of a Locked habit can be skipped before its deadline, and that costs one of your lifetime deletes.
For its first hour, yes: edit it, pause it, stop it or delete it. After that it depends on how strict you made it. Flexible: a habit's changes start tomorrow, so today stays due, and a task can change until its day. Firm: it stays exactly as you made it. Locked: nothing changes until it ends.
Leaving a Flexible or Firm one after its first hour uses one of your lifetime deletes: 3 on Free, 10 on Premium, and they never refill.
However suits it. With the camera: a photo taken in Oathful's own camera (never picked from your library), a screenshot, before and after photos, or a timelapse, each checked by AI against what you said it must show. With time: a focus timer that resets if you leave the app, or your phone face down. With GPS: a check-in where you pinned it, or automatically as you arrive, stay or keep away. On your phone: a Screen Time limit or an Apple Health target. Or mark it done yourself.
A photo, the focus timer, phone down, a GPS check-in and manual mark done are free, with 5 AI-checked photos a month. The rest are part of Premium.
Yes. Free holds 3 tasks or habits at a time, at any strictness, proved by a photo (5 AI checks a month), the focus timer, phone down, a GPS check-in or manual mark done. A miss can go on your record, lock the apps you choose, charge you, or ask for a make-up.
Premium adds unlimited commitments, all 13 ways to prove them, up to 20 AI checks a day, and more consequences: tell someone, go easy the first time, and keep apps shut until it's done. $6.99 a month, or $39.99 a year with a free trial.
A miss the AI decided (a photo, a screenshot, before and after, a timelapse) can be appealed once, within 24 hours, with a one-line note. A charge you think is wrong can be disputed in the app, and a person answers within 2 days. Nothing is charged until they do.
That's up to you. A task is one day. A habit runs until you stop it, or to an end date you pick, weeks or months away. To be held to it the whole way, make it Locked: you choose the last day before you sign, and it can't change afterwards.
Cards are added on your Oathful account at oathful.app/account. The app never asks for card details. It only names the card on file, by brand and last four.
They're read only when a proof asks for them: your location once, at the moment you check in, and the camera when you take the photo. A photo you send is checked by AI (Anthropic's Claude), and the app asks before the first one. The automatic GPS proofs (Premium) ask for Always location so your phone can tell Oathful when you arrive at or leave the place you pinned. Your route is never tracked.
Yes, any time, from Settings → Account.