Footing never connects to your bank.
Not a missing feature — a decision. Bank data is expensive, regulatorily heavy, and it still can't make anyone follow through. You can always spend the money you told an app you were saving.
You say it out loud
A goal you've named, with a number and a date attached, is a commitment. A balance that drifts up and down is just weather.
The date does the work
Every goal needs a real end date. That's what turns "I should save more" into a pace you can be ahead of or behind — and a day where it either happened or it didn't.
People notice
Three or four people who know what you're working toward will do more for your follow-through than a spending chart ever has.
Three things, and none of them is a spreadsheet.
Declare it
A name, a target amount, and a target date. The date isn't optional — it's the whole mechanic. Add a cover photo of the thing itself: the beach, the car, the ring. A goal with a face is a goal you keep looking at.
Twenty weekly check-ins at $100 each. That's the pace — Footing tells you the moment you're off it.
Check in honestly
Every check-in has three answers, not two. Most weeks aren't a clean yes or no, and a product that only offers those two teaches you to lie to it. Partial is a real answer, and the coach treats it like one.
Try it —
CoachThirteen for thirteen. Exactly on pace — $700 across the last seven weeks and Mexico is paid for.
Bring the pod
A pod is three to five people working toward the same thing. Private group chat, shared photos, everyone's check-ins visible. When it's a trip, the pod is simply the people going.
Pod milestoneThe group crossed 65% together. Seven weeks to go.
Your pod sees that you showed up. Never what you have.
Small and private — three to five people, not a public feed. Accountability works better at that size, and a setback costs less socially.
What your pod sees
- That you checked in, and your streak
- Milestones the group hits together
- Photos you chose to share with them
- The chat, which is where the trip actually gets planned
What it never sees
- Any dollar amount of yours
- Balances, income, or transactions — Footing doesn't have them either
- Photos you kept private to yourself
- A notification when you leave — you can go quietly, and your goal is unaffected
It watches whether you show up, not what you spend.
Without transactions there's nothing to analyse but behaviour — which turns out to be the honest signal anyway.
You
Missed check-ins, streak length, and your pace against the date you set. Two misses in a row changes how it talks to you.
Your pod
When one person goes quiet while the rest stay active. When the group is behind pace with the deadline close. When everyone hits a milestone at once.
The goal
Days remaining against percentage confirmed — the difference between "on pace for October" and a flag that says you're not.
Three ways it can talk to you
You pick a starting point when you sign up. The coach adjusts from there based on what actually works for you — the direct voice is earned by a pattern, never switched on to nag.
Capped at roughly three touchpoints a week, and you can turn it down further. It's a coach, not a notification budget to be spent.
The goals you missed stay in the app.
Most products quietly delete the ones that didn't work out. Footing keeps both, and the coach writes something honest about the miss rather than stamping it failed. A product that needs every goal to succeed isn't being straight with you.
Everything is free except the coach.
Goals, pods, chat and photos are unlimited on the free tier and always will be. The only thing you can pay for is coaching that actually adapts to you — because that's the only part that costs us more to run.
Free
- Unlimited goals and pods
- Pod chat and photo sharing
- Check-in reminders on a fixed schedule
- Streak tracking and the goal archive
The same reminder language for everyone, on a fixed cadence. It'll tell you it's Tuesday. It won't know why you stopped.
Footing Coach
The paid part- Everything in Free
- A coach that adapts its tone to you specifically
- Messages that reference your actual history and your pod
- A real written reflection when a goal ends, either way
A fixed reminder can't tell a busy week from losing interest. That difference is the entire product.
Be there when the first pods open.
Footing is in build. Leave an email and we'll tell you when it's on the App Store — nothing else, and never a newsletter you didn't ask for.
Goes straight to hello@getfooting.io. One email back when it opens, nothing else.