Most apps try to motivate you. This one does something different it makes quitting feel like letting someone down.
Here is article we wrote about this topic:
Most people don t abandon their fitness goals because they don t care they abandon them because they re alone with their excuses. The data is increasingly clear: when your success is tied to another human being, your odds of following through jump dramatically.
Shared accountability two or more people committing to the same daily action, with visible consequences for everyone if someone drops the ball turns I should work out into we said we would.
Before building PlankPact, we ran a simple experiment. We paired 14 strangers on WhatsApp and gave them one task: do a plank every day for 7 days. If your partner quits — you both lose. All 7 pairs completed the challenge. 3 continued on their own.
That experiment became this app.
Research shows we're more afraid of letting someone down than failing ourselves. That's the entire mechanic behind PlankPact.