Finally do the thingyou keep putting off.Tell one person.Then go do it.
Fika puts one accountability partner between you and the thing you keep not doing. You say what you'll do, they find out whether you did it at a time you both picked, and they say something back. Your ordinary to-dos live in the same app.
of people who wrote their goals down and sent weekly progress to a friend either finished them or got more than halfway. Of the people who only thought about their goals, 43% got that far.
Gail Matthews, Dominican University of California, 2015.
Every day
You say how it went. They hear it either way.
Checking in is not a checkbox. You answer with all of it, a solid amount, or the smallest thing, and you can write a line about why. Say nothing and that is what arrives.
It arrives at the time you setSent whether or not you opened your phone that day. Nothing to remember, nowhere to hide.
The smallest thing still countsShoes on, one page, five minutes. It holds your streak rather than breaking it.
They answer backA sentence from someone who knows what it cost you. No likes and no follower count.
This is what your witness gets. Their name, what you answered, and the line you wrote with it.
Attach a photo if you want to. It's optional.
How it works
Three steps, then somebody knows.
01
Name the thing.
In your own words, and you see how it will look before you agree to it.
02
Commit to it.
It takes a deliberate moment, not a tap. Nothing is yours until you have made it yours.
03
Send it to somebody.
The app writes the message. One text, and it's something you told them rather than something you meant to get to.
94 studies
Across 94 studies and about 8,000 people, naming exactly when and how you'd start had a medium-to-large effect on whether people did it (d = 0.65). It's why Fika asks for your first move rather than the whole thing.
Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006 meta-analysis.
A third
In a randomised trial, smokers who put something at stake were about a third more likely to have quit six months later. It's why a commitment can carry a stake you both agree on. Nothing is held or charged here.
Giné, Karlan & Zinman, 2010.
The app
Your day, your word, your people.
Your dayWhat you promised sits above what you merely planned.Your wordEvery commitment, and who is holding you to it.Your peopleWhat they've sent you, in their words. They come down after a week.
The other half
It's a real to-do list too.
Most of what you write down doesn't need a witness. Book the dentist, file the taxes, fix the bike. Those live here too.
Do dates and deadlines are different things. A deadline is the only thing that turns red. A do date is you deciding when to get to it, and it never nags.
Repeats, reminders, categories, notes. Every weekday, the second Tuesday, every other week. Search, filter, group and sort the lot, or select a pile and move them at once.
Any task can become a commitment. Nothing is copied or moved — you just hand it to somebody, notes and history intact.
No catch
What Fika doesn't do.
It only works if you and the person you asked both keep turning up. Anything in the way of that is working against the product.
✓No feed and no followers. Nothing you do here is public.
✓No points or badges. There is no game and no leaderboard.
✓No ads, and no data sold. Your commitments aren't a product.
✓Free right now. Every feature is open and you don't enter a card to start.
✓iPhone only, on iOS 17 or later.
Before you download
The honest questions.
What's an accountability partner in Fika?
One person you choose. In Fika they're called your witness: they see the commitment you made and how you answered each day, and they can say something back. They're not your manager, and they don't see anything else.
What if I don't have anyone to ask?
Commit to yourself and everything works the same way. Most people find it easier to ask somebody once they can show them exactly what they would be agreeing to.
What does my witness actually see?
The commitment you made, how you answered each day, and any photo you attached. That is all. They do not see your other tasks or your other commitments. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
Is Fika free?
Yes, all of it, right now. No paywall, no limits, no trial and no card to enter.
Is there an Android or web version?
Not yet. Fika needs an iPhone running iOS 17 or later, and a web version is being built. Worth knowing before you ask somebody, because they will need an iPhone too.
What if I stop using it?
Then it did not work and you should delete it. You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app, without emailing anybody or waiting on support.
Pick the thing. Pick the person.
Fika is free on iPhone. The rest of it is between the two of you.
