Holdfast
Quit betting, one urge at a time.
A private companion for anyone stopping sports betting or gambling. It is built around the one skill with the most evidence behind it — sitting with an urge until it passes — and everything stays on your phone. No account. No ads. Nothing that helps is behind a paywall.
Ride out the urge
Three minutes on a slow wave, with your reasons on screen and your person one tap away. Most urges pass inside twenty minutes.
Clean days, money kept
A counter, the money you have not bet, and a kelp forest that grows from your lifetime clean days and never shrinks.
Where you live
Helplines, self-exclusion schemes and free blockers for the US, UK, Canada, Australia and India.
A lapse is data, not a verdict
If you bet, log it plainly. The run resets; your best run and every clean day you banked stay. The days right after a lapse are the ones where an app most needs to still be welcome.
Free, and Pro
Riding out urges, the helplines and self-exclusion links, your person, the counter, the money, the check-in, the milestones and the shorter sits by the sea are free for good. Holdfast Pro adds every theme, the pattern charts, a Sunday recap of your week and the hour-long sit by the sea.
Private by design
No account, no server, no analytics. What you log never leaves your phone unless you choose to call, share or open a link. Read the privacy policy.
If you need help now
- United States: call 1-800-GAMBLER, free and confidential, 24/7.
- United Kingdom: the National Gambling Helpline, 0808 8020 133.
- Anywhere: your local emergency number if you are in crisis.
Holdfast is not a treatment and does not replace professional help.