Commit. Show up.
Or pay for it.
Dare is an app blocker with a twist: it only blocks you when you break your own promise. Three steps, fully automatic, no logging.
Set the dare
Choose a goal that fits your life: a daily step count, daily exercise minutes, a daily active-calorie target, or a bedtime. Then pick the stake: the apps you lose if you skip. Most people pick the ones they doomscroll: social, video, games. You choose; Dare never picks for you.
Show up. Dare does the counting.
Your progress is read straight from Apple Health: steps from your iPhone or Apple Watch, exercise minutes from any app that logs them (Apple Watch, Strava, Nike Run Club), active energy for Move goals.
No check-ins, no photo proof, no honesty box. If you did it, Dare knows. If you didn't, Dare knows that too.
Hit it, or lose your apps
Make the goal and nothing happens. Your phone stays yours. Miss it, and Dare uses Apple's Screen Time to lock the apps you staked, until you make the goal up. The moment you catch up, they open. It's not a punishment; it's a reason.
Do it perfectly, and we pay you back
Hit all your goals, every day, for four consecutive weeks and you earn a free month on your yearly plan.
Your target is set from your own average for the 30 days before Dare, so a perfect week means you really are doing more than you were. A rest week pauses your run without breaking it.
The same screen shows what it bought you: your steps and active calories now against the 30 days before you started. Progress history is free, forever.
Honest, not merciless
A system you'll abandon after one bad week is a bad system. Dare builds the bad week in:
Rest day
Bank a day off and spend it when you need it. No lock, no loss.
Move a session
Can't train Tuesday? Shift it to Thursday before the deadline.
Rest week
On holiday? Pause every dare for the week. It picks back up Monday.
Motivation fades.
Consequences don't.
Habit trackers rely on you caring about a streak. Screen-time limits rely on you not tapping "ignore." Both are free to break, so you break them. Research on commitment devices points the other way: when access to something people wanted was tied to showing up, gym attendance rose about 51%. Dare wires that mechanic into your phone: the cost of skipping is immediate, personal, and exactly the thing you'd rather be doing instead.