In beta · iOS and Android · Built in Copenhagen
Being seen is what makes it stick.
Forme is where you put a commitment, big or small, in front of the people you respect, check in as you go, and write an honest review when it ends. No highlight reel, no vanity metrics, and no algorithm deciding who sees you show up.
First time installing a beta? The support page walks you through TestFlight and the Android install, step by step.
How it works
Three things, and you are doing it.
01 · Set
Make a commitment
Say what you are doing, how you will do it, why it matters, and what counts as success. Then choose who can see it: everyone on Forme, your close friends, or nobody but you.
02 · Log
Check in as you go
A photo and a line, in about the time it takes to send a message. The people following that commitment see it as it happens. Nothing is imported without you asking, and nothing is scored.
03 · Review
Write the honest review
When it ends you review yourself, in your own words. What worked, what did not, what you would do differently. The review is public, and that is the whole point of it.
Why it works
Telling someone is the active ingredient.
Research on commitment and monitoring has pointed the same way for decades, and the effect gets bigger the moment somebody else can see it. That finding is the reason Forme exists rather than another private tracker.
The evidence base
138
randomised experiments, across 19,951 people, found that monitoring progress changes behaviour.
The effect was larger when progress was reported to someone, and larger again when it was made public.
Harkin et al. · Psychological Bulletin · 2016
Writing it down and saying it
64%
of people who wrote their commitment down and told a friend reached it.
Of the people who only thought it through and kept it to themselves, 43% did.
Matthews · Dominican University · 2015
Adding a weekly update
76%
of the group who also sent a friend a weekly progress update reached it.
That was the strongest group in the study, and that weekly rhythm is the one Forme is built around.
Matthews · Dominican University · 2015
Sources: Harkin, Webb, Chang, Prestwich, Conner, Kellar, Benn and Sheeran, Psychological Bulletin 142(2), 2016, a meta-analysis of 138 randomised experiments. Matthews, Dominican University of California, 2015, a study of 267 participants. Forme does not publish a number of days it takes to form a habit, because the honest answer is a very wide range and any single figure would be wrong for most people reading it.
What Forme is
Built against the highlight reel.
Public commitments, not public personas
You share what you said you would do, and whether you did it. Not the version with a filter on it. Not the version written for strangers.
Seen, never scored
Your record is a ledger of days that happened, not a counter that punishes you for one. There are no streak warnings and no progress bars measuring you against yourself.
One reaction, and it is Bravo
A single tap that says somebody saw you show up. No like counts, no leaderboards of strangers, no feed deciding which of your friends deserves an audience.
In the app
Everything it needs. Nothing it doesn’t.
Forme ships the essentials and stops. The feed is the people you follow and the commitments they keep, in the order they happened.
Commitments
Goal, method, reason and what counts as success. You choose who sees each one.
Check-ins
A photo and a line. Manual and intentional, never posted on your behalf.
Honest reviews
A public review of yourself when a commitment ends, written in your own words.
The feed
The people you follow, as they show up. No ranking, no suggested accounts.
Bravo
The one reaction on Forme. One tap that says someone saw you show up.
Partners
Name the people who should see one particular commitment. They see every check-in.
Challenges
Show up alongside a group, or make a contest of it. Always your call.
Close friends
A list you keep yourself. A commitment set to friends is visible to them and nobody else.
The Moment
Once a day, unannounced, a prompt to capture whatever you are in the middle of.
Strava and Health
Pull a run or a workout into a check-in when you want it. Never automatic.
Your stats
Commitments kept, reviews written, Bravos received. A record for you, not a ranking.
Private by default
Data stored in the EU. No trackers, and nothing about you sold to anyone.
From the founder
I built Forme because I needed people to know that I said I would. Running a marathon, drinking more water, putting a bit more money aside. Every commitment you keep makes you a little more the person you want to be.
Christopher Koller
Founder, Forme · Copenhagen
Ready when you are
Whatever you said you’d do.
In beta now on iOS and Android. Your first commitment takes about a minute, and one person seeing it is enough.
A month, as Forme records it