The whole idea
Nothing here is given away. It’s earned.
Your entry back, the reward on top, every penny of it traces to work a wearable measured.
The problem
You already know what to do.
That was never the problem.
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.
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.
One challenge, start to finish
Here is exactly how it goes.
Pick something you actually want to do
Open challenges are grouped into eight arenas, from Pledro Official and Big Funds to Free Entry and Charity. Or write your own rules and invite people.
Put an entry behind it
Every entry joins one reward fund. You can see the target, the window, who is in and what completing pays before you commit. Only what you train after entering counts, so everybody begins fresh.
Then just train
There is no “start a workout in Pledro” step. Connect your wearable once, Apple Watch at launch, and sessions are detected automatically, server-side, while the app sits in your pocket.
Your watch does the paperwork
Only activities inside the window, from a watch connected before you joined, count. Nothing is hand-entered. You become a completer the moment your session passes validation.
Results, and the reward
Results land up to about an hour after the window closes. Complete it and your full entry comes back plus an even share of the reward fund, the same amount for everyone who finished.
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 watch, 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.
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. Entries that aren’t claimed back stay in the fund, and completing earns you a share of it. If everybody finishes, every entry goes back in full and Pledro earns nothing.
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.
Worked example · real money, coming
25 enter at £20. Ten complete.
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, not a list. Each one answers a different mood: the ones we run ourselves, the biggest funds, the ones closing tonight, the free-entry way in.
Seven of the eight rooms. Figures are live example data, captured from the app. The arenas in full → · The charity model →
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
A small one
Even a modest challenge
pays for the alarm clock.
Most challenges aren’t dramatic. Eighteen people, twenty pounds, one run in a weekend window. Twelve finish it.
Sunday Long Run
18 in · £20 entry · one qualifying run inside the window
18+ for real-money entries · UK · Your limits, your rules · illustrative, real-money entries are coming
What you need
A smartphone and a wearable.
The wearable is the referee, so competing needs one on your body. Apple Watch is first through the door; more are on the way. Whichever you wear, nothing self-reported ever counts.
Apple Watch
Verifies every activity from day one.
Garmin
On the way. No date promised.
Whoop
On the way. No date promised.
Fitbit
On the way. No date promised.
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. Next morning the duvet is winning, and with nothing on the line you roll over. With your own entry behind the goal, you get up. That’s the 6 a.m. club.
Straight answers
The six things people ask first.
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 and 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. 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 Apple Watch once, 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 at launch
18+ for real-money entries · UK · Your limits, your rules
A fitness network you can’t bluff on
Every post leads with the receipt.
Pledro is a social network where the proof comes first and the caption comes second. The claim, the receipt off the wearable, then the photo, in that order, every time.
Follow your people, see what they actually did, argue about pacing in the comments, and watch challenges you’re both in. Results are respectful in defeat: nobody’s finish is framed as someone else’s loss.
Look inside the app →
The anatomy above is the app’s real result post, captured, not drawn. See the feed in full →