Confront the gap.
OnPace is a daily execution discipline app. Three commitments a day. Forced Close Day ritual. Carry strikes. Pattern intelligence. No escape routes.
Three statements OnPace refuses to soften.
It is discomfort avoidance. Every productivity app that frames it as a time management problem is solving the wrong problem. OnPace starts from the correct one.
OnPace rewards execution. You do not get points for adding tasks. You get a score at the end of each day for what you actually did. There is no reward structure for good intentions.
Not thirty. Three. Close Day runs every night. No skip, no silent rollover, no 'try again tomorrow.' Every unfinished task gets a decision. No escape routes.
Three is the number that forces you to choose.
Most productivity apps give you unlimited tasks because they think the product is the list. OnPace caps you at three a day because the product is the choice.
Three is small enough that you have to decide what actually matters. Four would let you defer the decision one more time. OnPace will not let you.
- Hard daily cap. No workaround.
- Carry prediction warns you at the moment you commit if a task is likely to slip.
- Overcommit once, pattern profile remembers.
Every night, every unfinished task gets a decision.
Silent rollover is how to-do lists become graveyards. OnPace runs a forced Close Day ritual at the end of every day. You resolve every task that didn't get done, choose a reason from four options, and receive a single score: clean or carried.
There is no 'skip for today.' There is no escape button. The ritual is the product.
- Four carry reasons, no free-text dodge.
- One score at the end: clean or carried.
- The day cannot end without Close Day.
Three strikes and the task gets a decision.
Carry a task once, red tally mark. Carry it twice, it doubles. Carry it three times, OnPace stops letting you defer and forces one of three choices: do it now, schedule it for a specific future date, or drop it on record.
No task in OnPace gets to live indefinitely. Dropped is a legitimate outcome. Silent rot is not.
- Red tally marks escalate visually with each carry.
- Strike 3 forces: do, schedule, or drop. No fourth option.
- Dropped tasks stay on the record — you don't get to erase history.
Pro shows you what you can't see yourself.
Every night during rollover, OnPace computes a 14-day behavioural profile from your last fortnight. Which category you carry most. Which day of the week you fail on. When you commit to things you shouldn't.
Pro is not more features. Pro is the app becoming self-aware of your avoidance behaviours, and telling you what you've actually been doing instead of what you think you've been doing.
- Mid-day and end-of-day pace alerts tuned to YOUR profile.
- Carry risk prediction at the moment of commitment.
- Weekly AI summary that is personalised to your 14-day pattern.
Small features that add up.
12 weeks of clean vs carried days, colour-coded. No cheating, no grace period.
Recurring commitments that auto-populate each day. Non-negotiable structure.
Four-week trend bars, day-of-week heatmap, category-level completion rates.
AES-256-GCM on device before upload. The key never leaves your iPhone.
Your full history, on demand, in a format every tool understands. Your data, your hands.
Vague tasks get flagged at the moment you commit. Rewritten with actionable first steps.
PostHog EU cloud, anonymous events only. No IP, no names, no task content.
No ads, no upsells, no gamification, no dopamine traps. The app shuts up and gets out of the way.
iPhone only. Deliberately.
OnPace does not ship to Android, iPad, or the web. Not as a roadmap item. Not as a v2. Splitting attention across platforms dilutes the product. OnPace is a tool for the device you carry, that buzzes in your pocket, that you cannot escape when Close Day runs at 22:00.
If you do not own an iPhone, OnPace is not for you. We mean that literally.
“Procrastination is discomfort avoidance, not laziness. OnPace exists because every other productivity app treats it as a time management problem. It isn't.”Read the full manifesto