Held - Commitment Tracker
Theodor Younany Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Held - Commitment Tracker is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Theodor Younany. Rated 5.0/5 from 4 ratings. Requires iOS 15.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 4 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 3 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 9
- 2026 · v1.4
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About Held - Commitment Tracker
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.
What’s new
Version 1.4 · Updated September 9, 2026
A new look, and room for pictures. Held has been rebuilt in oatmeal and charcoal. No accent colour, no dark mode, and no typewriter face: the system font at small sizes, sentence case, and an underlined word where a button used to be. The app icon is black and white to match. Photographs. Give a goal a picture when you commit to it, and add one to any day's check-in. Held has its own camera now, so taking one looks like the rest of the app rather than like a system sheet. Everything stays on your phone. A progress bar sits on top of every goal, so you can see where one stands before you read its name. Swipe a goal to delete it. It asks once, because the ledger goes with it. Settings lost its explanations. Nothing else about how Held works has changed.
App privacy
The developer, Theodor Younany, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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