What is Momentum Discipline?

Momentum Discipline is an AI-powered accountability and self-discipline app. It scores your day 1-10 from objective inputs like sleep, deep work, gym, content, nutrition, and focus, runs AI face and food analysis, and optionally enforces your non-negotiables with financial stakes via Stripe.

Yes. Momentum has a free tier with daily check-ins and basic streaks. Momentum Pro is $19/month and unlocks AI face analysis, the AI food scanner, the full Body Engine, Ruthless Mode, weekly AI reviews, and the Founders Circle. Pro comes with a 7-day free trial.

How is Momentum different from Habitica or Streaks?

Habitica gamifies habits with XP and rewards. Streaks just counts consecutive days. Momentum is cold and factual: a 1-10 daily score from objective inputs, AI feedback from face and food analysis, a weekly AI review, and optional financial stakes through Ruthless Mode. No rewards, no avatars, no streaks-for-streaks-sake.

What is the Momentum Score?

A 1-10 daily score auto-computed from your weighted check-in inputs (sleep, deep work, gym, content, nutrition, focus) and capped by your Daily Non-Negotiables. Miss a non-negotiable and your day's score is capped regardless of other inputs.

What is Ruthless Mode?

Three accountability intensity tiers: Soft (notifications and weekly review only), Hard (your friends and the Live Red Wall see your slips), and Cold (financial stakes; missed non-negotiables debit your card via Stripe and route to a charity, anti-charity, or the community pool).

How does the AI face analysis work?

You upload a front and a side photo. Gemini Vision returns an appearance score with strengths and areas to improve, and a non-medical improvement plan covering skincare, training, posture, and grooming. Momentum never gives medical diagnoses, prescribes medication, or recommends surgery.

How does the AI food scanner work?

Take a photo of a meal or scan a barcode. The scanner returns calories, macros, key micronutrients, and a higher-protein or lower-calorie 'better option' you can log in one tap. Powered by Open Food Facts and Gemini Vision.

What platforms does Momentum run on?

Web (momentumdiscipline.com, installable as a PWA), iOS native via the App Store, and Android native via Google Play. A home-screen widget showing your Momentum Score and streak is available on both iOS and Android.

Founders, freelancers, operators, athletes, students, and self-improvement practitioners who want objective, militant accountability instead of gamified habits. Especially people who have bounced off Habitica (too gamified), Streaks (too soft), or Notion (too DIY).

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. 7-day free trial, then $19/month. Cancel anytime from Settings. No questions, no retention dark patterns.

Does Momentum implement the 12-Week Year?

Momentum borrows the 12-Week Year's lead-indicator discipline — score behaviors you control, not lagging outcomes — but runs continuously instead of on fixed 12-week cycles. Your daily Momentum Score is the lead indicator: hit your Non-Negotiables, score reflects it; miss them, score caps regardless of busy work.

How does Momentum apply 10x Is Easier Than 2x?

By forcing you to declare daily Non-Negotiables and weighting Deep Work at 35% of your score — the highest of any input. The AI coach surfaces when 2x-thinking (more tasks, more inputs) is dragging your score down vs 10x-thinking (fewer, higher-leverage commitments).

Can I use Momentum for sprint planning?

Yes. The /sprint section gives you continuous Tasks, Goals, and Calendar in one place — no fixed cycles. Sunday Planning walks you through next week's commitments, and screenshot-to-task import (Pro) pulls tasks straight from any external calendar.

Is Momentum about motivation or discipline?

Discipline. Motivation is a feeling — Momentum is built on the premise that feelings are unreliable. Daily Non-Negotiables, objective scoring, photo proof-of-work, and optional financial stakes are the mechanisms that make execution happen on the days you don't feel like it.

Earn Your Apps

Lock your apps until you've earned them.

Most app blockers lock your phone on a timer. Momentum locks it on performance.

Pick the apps that steal your day. Set a cutoff time (6:00 PM by default) and the score you need (7 out of 10 by default). If you're below it after the cutoff, those apps lock. Hit the score and they open again.

How Earn Your Apps works

You choose the apps with Apple's own Screen Time picker. Momentum never sees your browsing or messages — it only applies Apple's lock to the apps you picked.

Your daily Momentum Score is built from sleep, deep work, training, nutrition, content and focus. Log proof, raise the score, and the lock lifts. Apps also unlock at midnight so every day is a fresh fight.

Why performance beats a timer

A timer blocker punishes you for opening Instagram at 3 PM even on a day you crushed. It also lets you scroll freely at 9 PM after a day you wasted. Momentum ties your phone to what you actually did.

The result: the scroll becomes a reward you earn, not a habit you fight.

Frequently asked

Which devices support Earn Your Apps?

It runs in the Momentum iPhone app using Apple's Screen Time framework. On the web, the setting shows but locking requires the iPhone app.

Is Earn Your Apps free?

It's part of Momentum Pro ($9.99/month). Pro has a 7-day free trial (card required, $0 today).

Can I change the cutoff time or target score?

Yes. Set your own cutoff time, the minimum score and exactly which apps lock in Settings → Preferences.

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