Tensio
Tensio doesn’t take your word — it verifies.
Every goal has a real verification source, and under each goal you can see which one. Goals that can’t be verified never make it into the catalog.
You pick goals instead of typing them
42 ready-made goals in six categories, with search. No free text: “no sugar” could simply be claimed.
8,000 to 15,000 steps, floors climbed, active minutes, workouts, swimming, yoga, strength training, active calories.
Run 5, 10 or 15 km · cycle 20, 40 or 60 km.
Sleep 7 or 8 hours — or a custom sleep goal with a time window you choose yourself.
Weigh yourself daily. The entry is verified, not the weight.
At most 90 minutes, 2 or 3 hours of screen time — plus phone curfew and individual apps.
Commits, contribution calendar, pull requests, reviews and issues on GitHub. Requires Tensio Plus.
On top of that come goals you configure yourself: getting up at a fixed time (with a wake check after the alarm), a phone curfew from a certain hour, a place you have to be at when checking in, a specific repository — and, with Tensio Plus, honour-based goals Tensio cannot verify.
How Tensio knows you made it
Claiming it isn’t enough. A tap on “Check in” starts the verification — if it succeeds, the day counts.
| Source | What is verified from it |
|---|---|
| Health Connect | Steps, exercise minutes, active calories, workouts, running and cycling distance, floors climbed, weight entries, sleep duration |
| Usage data | Total screen time, usage time of individual apps, evening phone curfew |
| Location (GPS) | Be at the place at check-in — a single moment, no continuous tracking |
| Wake check | A small task after the alarm, so that “got up” really means got up |
| GitHub | Commits, contribution calendar, pull requests opened and merged, code reviews, issues, commits in one specific repo |
You decide how often it gets serious
Daily, weekdays, weekly
You decide how often a check-in is due — and whether the goal runs without an end (for habits) or has an end date (for a project).
The streak
Every completed due day extends it, a missed one breaks it. Today’s still-open day doesn’t — as long as the day is running, you haven’t lost it.
The timeline
In the goal detail you see every day at a glance and can page back and forth: ✓ done, ✗ missed, ring = open today.
Tensio speaks up before it gets expensive
A missed check-in costs real money. So the app reminds you actively — and, if you want, verifies on its own.
Evening reminder
Reminds you of open check-ins before your stake is forfeited — including a last call at 22:45.
Learning reminder
Speaks up per goal shortly after your usual check-in time has passed: if you normally run at 18:00, you’ll hear from us at 19:30, not at 20:00.
Automatic evening verification
Verifies health and minimum-usage goals in the evening and checks in what you’ve achieved. Honour-based, limit and location goals still need your own confirmation.
Weekly review
Sundays at 20:30, a summary of your week — days achieved and stakes prevented.
Plus a home-screen widget. “Tensio – Today” shows your open check-ins along with the stake currently on the line, and opens the app when tapped. Inside the app the “At stake today” card does the same: it sums up the stakes of all check-ins still open today. If everything is done, it shows €0.
For holidays and illness — without justifying yourself
A joker pauses a due day. We don’t ask for the reason and require no proof.
Three free per month
Unused jokers accumulate — up to a maximum of nine.
Never retroactive
Only for today or the future. No joker can rescue a day you already missed — otherwise the stake would be worthless.
Holds the streak
A joker preserves your streak but doesn’t extend it.
If three aren’t enough you can buy more — and earn them through “Refer & earn”. At most seven pause days in a row; in anti-charity mode there are no free jokers.
A streak someone can see breaks less often
Invite friends
By link. You see each other’s streaks and know who is really sticking with it.
Leaderboard
Who lasts the longest? Shown with username, profile picture and your character.
Shared goals
One goal for several people. The team streak counts as high as your weakest member — the stakes stay individual, everyone answers for themselves.
Team joker
Covers one day for the whole group when it doesn’t work out for a single member.
Refer & earn
One free joker for every friend who sticks with it — it only arrives once the person you referred really runs a goal and has saved a payment method of their own. Not at sign-up.
Public profile
You choose your username and profile picture — only what you put there becomes visible.
An undertaking with people you don’t have to know
Everyone stakes their own money on their own goal — what counts is who delivers reliably. The difference from the friends area in one sentence: there you see who knows you; here you see what you are working on with strangers.
Join with a code
Eight characters or a link, that’s all it takes. Joining doesn’t make you friends with anyone — the others only see your name and your rate.
The specification comes first
The creator fixes the goal, rhythm and period before sharing. Whoever gets the link knows what they are signing up for — and links a matching goal of their own.
Rated by rate, not streak
Days done out of days due. Joining late doesn’t put you at the bottom automatically — and anyone who hasn’t linked a goal yet isn’t rated at all.
No shared pot
Everyone chooses their own stake and beneficiary, and there is nothing to win. That is deliberate: a publicly joinable leaderboard with a shared pot would be gambling.
Up to 500 participants
Ten without a subscription, 500 with one. The size is fixed when the challenge is created and visible beforehand — nobody joins and then runs into a wall the creator didn’t pay for.
Leaving costs nothing
Your row disappears from the list. Your goal carries on unchanged — stake and all. What the group has already landed stays landed.
If a challenge verifies nothing, it says so. A challenge can run on your word too — then it carries a badge and the note that among strangers only the participants’ word counts. That is a weaker promise than among friends, and it isn’t dressed up as anything else.
Your record, in black and white
Year heatmap
Every day a square: held, nothing due — or red where you broke. A tap shows that day’s detail.
Monthly and yearly recap
Stake saved, days held, longest streak, success rate — as an image to share. Role models work.
Your character
A “mini-me” representing you in the leaderboard and in groups. Put together yourself, no photo needed.
Donation history
Every charge is traceable individually: when, how much and who it went to.
63 organisations and clubs to choose from
The same list serves both modes. Whether a beneficiary counts as donation or anti-charity isn’t decided by them — but by your relationship to them. Open a category to see who is behind it.
Aid organisations10 organisations For everyone who would rather have the loss softened.
Emergency medical aid in crisis and war zones worldwide.
aerzte-ohne-grenzen.deThe United Nations children’s fund.
unicef.deDisaster and emergency relief at home and abroad.
drk.deFighting hunger and poverty in over 30 countries.
welthungerhilfe.deDevelopment cooperation of the Protestant churches.
brot-fuer-die-welt.deA home and family for children in need.
sos-kinderdoerfer.deConservation of nature and species around the world.
wwf.deCampaigning for environmental, climate and ocean protection.
greenpeace.deFunding cancer research, counselling and self-help.
krebshilfe.deEmergency and disaster relief of the Catholic association.
caritas-international.deFootball44 organisations Clubs and club foundations from the 1st to the 3rd division.
FCH-Sozial – social projects and youth development in eastern Württemberg.
fc-heidenheim.deBetze-Engel – support for children and families in the Westpfalz region.
fck.deFC foundation – education, health and homeless aid around Cologne.
fc.deFCM vereint – social engagement and youth work in Magdeburg.
1.fc-magdeburg.deNürnberg gewinnt – donation projects for education and social causes in Franconia.
fcn.deFCS-Hilft – support for social institutions in Saarland.
fc-saarbruecken.de“Union vereint” foundation – social institutions such as children’s hospices.
fc-union-berlin.deMainz 05 hilft e.V. – social projects in Mainz and Rhenish Hesse.
mainz05.deArminia engagiert / Stiftung Solidarität – education and inclusion in East Westphalia.
arminia-bielefeld.deBayer 04 hilft – supporting the children’s palliative ward in Leverkusen, among others.
bayer04.deBVB foundation “leuchte auf” – charitable projects in the Ruhr region.
bvb.deBorussia foundation – social and sporting projects on the Lower Rhine.
borussia.deDynamo hilft! / Dixie Dörner foundation – regional causes & talent support.
dynamo-dresden.deEintracht Braunschweig foundation – children, youth and sport in the region.
eintracht.comEintracht Frankfurt foundation – projects against exclusion in the Rhine-Main area.
eintracht.deFC Energie hilft – regional relief campaigns in Lusatia.
fcenergie.deFC Augsburg hilft e.V. – emergency relief and social projects.
fcaugsburg.deFC Bayern Hilfe e.V. – people in need, social institutions, education.
fcbayern.comSchalke hilft! – support for disadvantaged families in Gelsenkirchen.
schalke04.deKiezhelden – social and cultural initiatives around the Kiez.
fcstpauli.comF95 hilft – social projects and neighbourhood aid in Düsseldorf.
f95.deDer Hamburger Weg – social projects and disadvantaged children in Hamburg.
hsv.de96plus – education, integration and health in the Hanover region.
hannover96.deHansa Rostock hilft e.V. – support for people in need on the Baltic coast.
fc-hansa.deHertha BSC foundation – education, diversity and exercise in Berlin.
herthabsc.comHolstein hilft – social projects and youth development in Schleswig-Holstein.
holstein-kiel.deKSC TUT GUT. – KSC foundation for social projects around Karlsruhe.
ksc.dezebra kids e.V. / MSV-Herzenswünsche – aid for sick and disadvantaged children.
msv-duisburg.deFundraising for partner organisations such as Paulis Momente hilft e.V.
dierotenbullen.comEssener Chancen e.V. – education and participation for children in the Ruhr region.
rot-weiss-essen.deSC Freiburg foundation – education, integration and health in the Breisgau.
scfreiburg.com“Herzblut. Verbindet.” – community engagement in East Westphalia.
scp07.deGreuther Fürth foundation – youth, social and education projects around Fürth.
kleeblatt.deJahn Sozial: Brücken für Regensburg – help for people in the city.
ssv-jahn.de“Im Zeichen der Lilie” – social projects in Darmstadt and southern Hesse.
sv98.deRelief campaigns of the parent club, e.g. with the Ursapharm foundation.
sv-elversberg.deWaldhof hilft e.V. – support for people in need in Mannheim.
svw07.deWerder Bewegt – inclusion, education and health through sport.
werder.deTSG hilft e.V. – social and health projects in the Kurpfalz.
tsg-hoffenheim.deTSV München von 1860 e.V. – supporting youth (“Junglöwen”).
tsv1860.deVfB foundation “Brustring der Herzen” – help for children and families in need.
vfb.deVfL Bochum 1848 foundation – education, health and youth in the Ruhr region.
vfl-bochum.deYouth sponsorships – supporting the youth academy.
vfl.de“Gemeinsam bewegen” – social projects and youth work in the region.
vfl-wolfsburg.deIce hockey3 organisations For rivalries that aren’t settled on grass.
EHC Eisbären Foundation – social projects (“Pink in the Rink”) & youth.
eisbaeren.deAdler helfen Menschen e.V. – for sick & needy children in Rhein-Neckar.
adler-mannheim.deDie Haie e.V. – securing youth; “charity ticket” for children with cancer.
haie.deHandball3 organisations Selectable as a donation or as an anti-charity too.
“Löwenherz” initiative – Sterntaler children’s hospice, women’s shelter, child protection.
rhein-neckar-loewen.deFundraising with the Berlin City Mission for homeless people in winter.
fuechse.berlin“Kids in die Clubs” – funds club sports & equipment for needy children.
thw-handball.deBasketball3 organisations Set your sports and we sort the fitting ones to the top.
ALBA Berlin Jugend e.V. – Germany’s largest basketball youth programme.
albaberlin.deLeague-wide “Assists for Kids” – support for children with cancer.
basketball-aid.deCharity auctions (United Charity) for children’s aid organisations.
fcbayern.com
Small things that make the difference
Appearance
Light, dark or system setting — plus four styles: standard, dynamic (picks up your home screen’s colours), high contrast and retro. Or a colour of your own.
App lock
Unlock on open with your fingerprint or device lock. Your goals are nobody’s business just because they briefly hold your phone.
German and English
The whole app exists in both languages — either fixed or following your system language.
Archive
Finished goals move to the archive rather than the bin. You can bring them back at any time, and archived ones don’t count towards your goal limit.
Signing in
With an email address or with Google. Forgot your password? The code arrives by email straight into the app — no link that leads nowhere.
Help on board
A guided app tour, a help centre with over sixty questions in nine categories and a direct line to support — all in your profile.
Your data stays with you
Health values, location and app usage times are evaluated on the device and immediately discarded.
- Only this is stored: “day done — yes or no”.
- No step counts, no coordinates, no movement profiles.
- Card data lives with Stripe, never with us.
- No third-party analytics SDK, no ad networks.