iPhone · iOS 17 or later · Version 1.0.0 (2)
HabitStakes turns a habit into a short, deliberate commitment. You choose a habit, a daily target, a number of days, and an amount that stands for how much it matters. Every day you hit the target, that day’s share stays protected.
Not yet available for download. Questions before launch go to support@scalingadventures.com.
Dashboard with demo data loaded from Settings. Amounts are local records, not balances.
HabitStakes 1.0.0 (2) cannot charge you, hold funds, transfer funds, forfeit money to anyone, or pay anything out. There is no payment processor, no card entry, no wallet, no stored value, and no in-app purchase in this build. The USD figures you see — protected, at stake, forfeited — are motivational bookkeeping calculated on your device from the terms you chose. They have no cash value, cannot be redeemed, withdrawn, or transferred, and are not a bank account, escrow, prize, donation, wager, or investment.
If paid functionality is ever introduced, it would require updated terms, a clear disclosure, and your explicit consent before anything is charged. See the Refund Policy and Terms of Use.
How it works
HabitStakes keeps one active commitment at a time, so there is one thing to protect and one clear result at the end.
Pick a habit, a daily target, a start date, a number of days, and a total amount in USD. HabitStakes divides the total into daily shares in whole cents, assigning any remainder cent to the earliest days, so the shares always add back up to your total.
Steps are read from Apple Health with your permission. Reading and hydration use explicit check-ins. Focus is measured by an in-app timer that only counts the time it actually observes.
Each finished day becomes protected or forfeited in your local ledger. A day with no visible data stays unresolved instead of being counted as a miss.
Habits & verification
HabitStakes never presents a self-reported check-in as if it were measured by an outside service. Each habit tells you exactly where its number comes from.
| Habit | Daily target | How a day is verified |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Steps | Steps | Apple Health, read only Daily step totals are read from Apple Health when you grant permission. HabitStakes never writes Health data. |
| Read Daily | Minutes | Your check-in You confirm the reading time yourself. The confirmation states exactly what will be recorded before progress changes. |
| Focus Session | Minutes | In-app timer Only elapsed timer time is recorded. Leaving the screen does not award the rest of the target. |
| Drink Water | Glasses | Your check-in One explicit confirmation per glass, recorded on device. |
Accuracy is not guaranteed. Apple Health totals can arrive late, incompletely, or not at all, and check-ins and timers depend on you and on your device clock. HabitStakes is a motivation and record-keeping tool for general wellness. It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose or treat anything, and nothing in the app is medical advice. Read the verification section of the Terms.
Inside the app
Money safety, data controls, and Health status are first-class screens, not fine print buried in a settings list.
What is in the app
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show current progress, and a Live Activity can run during the final at-risk hours of a day. Tapping a widget opens the dashboard.
Daily reminders, goal-at-risk nudges, completion alerts, and Health-data warnings are all scheduled on your device. Each type can be turned off separately.
Completed commitments are archived locally with per-day outcomes, lifetime protected and forfeited totals, completion rate, and streaks.
Sign in with Apple is optional and stays device-local in the Keychain. Recovery is an encrypted file you export yourself, protected by a 256-bit key shown once.
Export your app-managed records as JSON to Files, or delete everything HabitStakes manages on the device from one confirmed action.
One screen shows the current payment mode, ledger currency, proposed eligibility, bundled policy drafts, support contact, your activity ledger, export, and deletion.
Privacy
HabitStakes has no HabitStakes server. There is no account to create, no habit data uploaded, and nothing to log in to.
With your permission, HabitStakes reads daily step totals from Apple Health to verify a steps commitment. It never writes Health data, never uses Health data for advertising, and never sells or shares it with data brokers. You can review or revoke access at any time in the Health app or in Settings.
Commitments, activity, and completed history are stored locally. Optional Sign in with Apple identity is kept in the Keychain with device-only accessibility. Use Delete all local data or Sign out inside the app to remove that Keychain identity: deleting the app removes its container records, but a Keychain item can survive an uninstall.
This release contains no advertising SDK, no third-party analytics, no attribution tracking, and no payment processor. Nothing in the app sets cookies, because the app is not a browser experience.
This site is static HTML and CSS with no scripts, no cookies, no forms, and no analytics. It is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, which necessarily processes ordinary request and network metadata, such as IP address and user agent, to deliver and protect the page.
Questions
No. In this release the app cannot take payment or move funds. Amounts are motivational records calculated on your device, with no cash value and no way to redeem, withdraw, or transfer them.
No. Nothing is wagered, no prize can be won, no money changes hands, and there is no element of chance in the outcome — a day is protected when you meet the target you set for yourself.
Apple deliberately does not tell apps whether read access was denied, so HabitStakes cannot claim to know. If no step data is visible, days stay unresolved rather than being marked as missed, and the app points you to Health settings, device data, and a refresh action.
No. The app is fully usable without signing in. Sign in with Apple is optional and only stores a device-local identity; it does not create server sync or a cloud backup.
Export an encrypted recovery file and keep its one-time recovery key somewhere safe, then import both on the other device. The file and the key are both required, and neither can be recovered by us if lost.
There is no announced release date. This site exists so the policies, support route, and behaviour of the shipped build are public and reviewable first.
HabitStakes supports general wellness habits. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Talk to a qualified clinician before starting or changing an exercise, hydration, or sleep routine, especially if you are pregnant, have a medical condition, or are recovering from an injury. If you think you are having a medical emergency, stop and call your local emergency number. Do not use the app while driving or anywhere it would be unsafe to look at your phone.
Everything above is written to match what the shipped build actually does. The policies go further.
