The fitness app that pays you for showing up
Back yourself.
Put an entry behind your goal. Your wearable proves you did the work. Complete it and your entry comes back in full, plus an even share of whatever is left over.
Whether it comes back is decided by one thing: whether you did the work.
Free to start · Apple Watch, Garmin, Whoop, Oura and more.
18+ for real-money entries · UK · Your limits, your rules · Grind Coins are free and cannot be bought
The problem
You already know what to do.
That was never the problem.
Pledro gives the goal a price. You put an amount that means something to you behind it, and the argument with yourself gets a lot shorter.
Why nothing else sticks
Supplements. Gym memberships. A personal trainer. New Year. A holiday in eight weeks. Every trick there is, and most people still fall short.
Not because they don’t want it. Because nothing they set up actually costs them anything the day they quit. The negotiation is always winnable.
Nothing here is given away
Your entry back, the reward on top, every penny of it traces to work a wearable measured.
One challenge, start to finish
Here is exactly how it goes.
Four beats, start to finish. The phone follows along.
Pick something you actually want to do
Open challenges sit in eight arenas. Or write your own rules and invite people.
Put an entry behind it
Every entry joins one reward fund. The challenge shows what you have to do, the window and what completing pays, before you commit.
Then just train
Connect your wearable once and sessions are detected automatically, server-side. There is no “start a workout in Pledro” step.
Results, and the reward
Results land up to about an hour after the window closes: your full entry back, plus an even share of whatever is left over.
The referee
Your wearable is your referee.
It can’t be talked into believing you. Every number on Pledro comes off it, so there is no honour system to game, and no chance, no odds, no house on the other side of it.
Typed-in workouts are rejected
There is no “log it manually” path in Pledro, on purpose. Metrics come only from the wearable. If it didn’t come off the wearable, it doesn’t exist.
Data that can’t be real is held
Flat heart rate. A pace no human holds. Signals that don’t agree with each other. Anything implausible is flagged and held, never counted silently, never rewarded automatically.
One wearable, one account
A wearable is tied to a single account, so one person’s session can’t be worn twice. If you hand the device on or move accounts, you release it yourself — you never have to ask us to.
Only inside the window
Activities count only if they fall inside the challenge window and come from a wearable connected before you joined. And you must have entered before the workout began, so nobody enters a challenge they’ve already trained for.
Held means a human reviews it
When something is flagged, a person looks at it before anything is decided. Every finished challenge produces a receipt carrying a challenge ID, so there is always a thread to pull.
No chance in it.
The only variable is you.
No invented numbers
Four facts, and none of them are marketing.
Where the reward comes from
Nobody is on the other side of your result.
Everyone enters the same fund. Everyone who completes is paid the same. If everybody finishes, every entry goes back in full and Pledro earns nothing.
Where the entries that stay go
Entries that aren’t claimed back stay in the fund: we take up to 10% of the fund out of them, and everything above that is shared between the people who completed.
That last part is the whole point. If every entry goes back, we earn nothing and the product did its job: people got fitter. Our share is never more than 10% of the entries in a challenge, in any circumstance.
Why one miss in ten pays no reward
Pledro is paid first, out of the entries that stay in the fund, and never more than 10% of the fund. Everything above that ceiling is the reward. So there is no reward at all until more than one in ten miss the target — everyone who completed simply takes their entry back in full.
25 enter at £20. Ten complete.
The ten who completed are paid the same, to the penny.
18+ for real-money entries · UK · Your limits, your rules · real-money entries are coming, pending authorisation
18 enter at £20. Twelve complete.
Most challenges aren’t dramatic. Even a modest one pays for the alarm clock.
18+ for real-money entries · UK · Your limits, your rules · real-money entries are coming, pending authorisation
10 enter at £10. Nine complete.
The one entry that stays is exactly our 10% ceiling, so there is no reward: all nine take their £10 back.
18+ for real-money entries · UK · Your limits, your rules · real-money entries are coming, pending authorisation
10 enter at £10. All ten complete.
Every entry goes back in full. Pledro earns nothing, and the product did its job.
18+ for real-money entries · UK · Your limits, your rules · real-money entries are coming, pending authorisation
10 enter at £10. Nobody completes.
Real-money entries are not live yet, so no charity has been paid a penny.
18+ for real-money entries · UK · Your limits, your rules · real-money entries are coming, pending authorisation
Inside the app
Challenges live in arenas.
Eight rooms for every mood, or one for each activity. Each holds only what you can still enter.
What a room holds
Every room holds only what you can still enter. Entries close the moment a challenge’s window opens, so one that has started moves out of the rooms into a space of its own — as do the ones whose results are already in.
Charity challenges halve our cap to 5%, and the entries that stay in the fund go to the charity. The charity model →
Two ways to enter
Grind now. Pounds later.
Every account starts on free Grind Coins, which are not money and cannot be bought.
Grind Coins
Every account starts on Grind. They are free, they cannot be bought, and they are not money. Grind challenges pay no fee at all, the full reward goes back to the people who completed.
Real-money entries
Entries with your own money are coming: 18+, UK, pending authorisation. When they arrive, the maths is the one already published on this site, capped fee, even split, entries back in full when everybody completes.
18+ for real-money entries · UK · Your limits, your rules
What you need
A smartphone and a wearable.
The wearable is the referee, so competing needs one on your body. Whichever you wear, nothing self-reported ever counts.
- Apple Watch
- Garmin
- Whoop
- Oura
- Fitbit
- Polar
- COROS
- Suunto
- Amazfit
- Huawei
- Peloton
- Runna
What each one can back depends on what it measures, and Apple Watch is the only one that backs every challenge type.
The 6 a.m. club
Motivation is cheap at midnight. Pledro makes it expensive to ignore at 6 a.m.
You commit the night before. With your own entry behind the goal, you get up. That’s the 6 a.m. club.
Is this gambling?
No. Pledro is skill-based: the only thing that decides the result is whether you completed the target your wearable measured. There is no chance element, no odds, and no operator on the other side of your result. Today Pledro runs on free Grind Coins, which cannot be bought.
What happens if I don’t complete it?
Your entry stays in the reward fund. Our capped share comes out of what stays before anything else does, and everything above that ceiling is shared between the people who did complete.
While you’re the only one in it you can withdraw and your entry comes back in full. The moment somebody else enters, everyone in it is committed, including you, and completing is the only way to get your entry back, before or after the start. That is deliberate, and it’s the reason the goal has teeth.
Can I just type in a workout?
No, and there is no path to. Every metric comes off the wearable. Hand-entered activities are rejected outright, and anything implausible is held for a person to review rather than counted.
Do I have to press start in the app?
No. Connect your wearable once and sessions are detected automatically, server-side. Train the way you already train. The app doesn’t need to be open.
What does Pledro earn?
On Grind challenges, nothing at all. On real-money challenges when they arrive, our share comes only from entries that stay in the fund, and out of them before the reward does. It is never more than 10% of the total entry fees, and it drops to zero when everyone completes. See the whole arithmetic →
How do I start?
Get Pledro on your iPhone, connect your wearable once — Apple Watch, Garmin, Whoop, Oura and more — and pick a challenge. You start on Grind Coins, so your first challenges cost nothing.
Nobody feels like it at 6am.
Give yourself a reason that’s waiting outside the duvet.
Free to start · Apple Watch, Garmin, Whoop, Oura and more
18+ for real-money entries · UK · Your limits, your rules
A fitness network you can’t bluff on
Every post leads with the receipt.
The claim, the receipt off the wearable, then the photo — in that order, every time.
Look inside the app
Everything a network needs, tied to real training
Posts, stories that last a day, reels you scroll full-screen, follows, comments, and direct messages with voice notes and GIFs in them. Follow your people, see what they actually did, argue about pacing, and watch challenges you’re both in.
Results are respectful in defeat: nobody’s finish is framed as someone else’s loss.