Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. There is a free plan and a premium plan. Free gives you two active goals, unlimited coach messages, every evidence type, App Blocking, alarms, private evidence, friends, and penalties you can route to a friend. Premium lifts the goal limit and adds the Vault and coach-scheduled reminders. Penalties are separate on either plan: that is money you choose to put on your own goals.
Up to $100 per miss, in whole dollars. You set the amount when you create the goal.
You choose: to Commit by default, to a friend, or into your Vault to earn back through streaks. Either destination costs 5% on top of the stake, and sending it to Commit has no fee.
You are never charged by surprise. Every miss gives you 4 days to appeal, or to have the coach approve it first. If a charge still looks wrong, you can escalate it. Our team reviews disputes personally, not a script.
Sending a penalty to the Vault or to a friend costs 5% on top of the stake, charged to whoever missed the goal. A $20 penalty routed to a friend charges you $21 and your friend receives the whole $20. Penalties that go to Commit, the default, have no fee.
No one at Commit ever reads your evidence or goals unless you ask them to. The AI coach grades your evidence and deletes it after 90 days, and there’s an optional privacy mode that deletes your evidence as soon as it’s graded.
Not yet. Commit is an iPhone app today.
An agreement you make with yourself that has a real consequence attached. You state the goal, what counts as proof, and what it costs you to miss, and then you're bound to it. Behavioral economists call these commitment or deposit contracts; Atomic Habits calls them habit contracts. Commit is one you can't quietly renegotiate at 6am.
A tracker records what you did. A contract changes what you do. Ticking a box costs nothing, so a tracker is only ever as strong as the motivation you already had. An accountability contract puts real money behind the goal and an AI coach on the evidence, so missing has a price: one you set yourself, while you still wanted it.
Either. Premium costs the same on both and it's one subscription on one account, so buying it in the app and opening the website, or the other way round, shows you the same thing. Manage or cancel from wherever you bought it.
Commit doesn’t control you. It gives you the power to fully control yourself. Every day, you have to choose between your short-term and long-term desires. With Commit, you can live according to your long term goals without needing any motivation. You decide now, while you actually want it, and the future you at 6am inherits a decision instead of an option. You set the penalty once and can start living the way you’ve always wanted to.
Through Stripe, and never by surprise: every miss opens a 4-day window to appeal or have the coach approve it before anything actually leaves your account. Commit never sees or stores your card number.
The AI coach grades your evidence against the criteria you wrote yourself, at the leniency you picked: lenient, moderate or strict, set per goal.
Pick distracting apps and a daily limit, and Commit enforces it right on your phone. Break the block and you're charged.
Route your penalty to a friend instead of the house, on either plan. When you miss, real money lands in their account. They just link a bank to receive it. Your friend receives the full stake; the 5% routing fee is charged to you.
Yes. They need an account, and they link a bank to receive payouts. Your friend receives the full stake; the 5% routing fee is charged to you, not to them.
Yes. When you miss, real money lands in their account, and receiving costs them nothing: they just link a bank account.
Instead of losing a missed stake, it's locked away. Rebuild your streak and earn it back. Paybacks return your full stake, whether the penalty was charged to a card or a bank.
Commit only reads the activity a goal needs to be graded, and only real sensor data from your watch and phone. Manually-entered numbers are ignored.
No. Friends see whether a shared goal is on track or missed. They never see the photos, videos or recordings you submit.