Philoi

Philoi

Lock in.
Together.

Philoi is a social accountability app for students — set a goal, lock in with your friends, and earn XP, ranks and streaks for actually showing up.

Coming to iOS & Android.

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What it is

Motivation is a group project.

You show up when your people are showing up. Philoi takes the thing that already works — a friend texting "library in 20?" — and turns it into the app you open instead of doom-scrolling.

Set a goal, start a session, and your campfire sees your fire light up in real time. Studying, workouts, runs, job applications: if it takes consistency, it counts.

How it works

The loop that keeps you consistent.

No feed, no strangers, no engagement bait. Five things, and they all feed the same fire.

Lock in

Start a session. Feed the fire.

Pick a goal — a problem set, a lift, ten job applications — and start a focused, timed session. The thing you're working on is what's burning: a flaming pen for study, a dumbbell for the gym.

Every five minutes you stay in it, the fire grows a stage. Your campfire sees it burning live.

Six goal types, six stages of growth.

Campfires

Small groups. Real ones.

A campfire is four or five friends you actually know — not a feed of strangers. Everyone's sessions, streaks and check-ins land in one place, with a chat for the part where you drag each other out of bed.

The more of you who show up, the bigger the fire burns.

Invite-only. No public profiles, nothing to perform for.

Ranks & streaks

Forged from the days you showed up.

Every session earns XP. Cross enough of it and your rank is forged out of the fire — Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and at the top, Infernal.

Keep your streak alive and climb your university's leaderboard. Drop it and the fire goes cold, which is exactly the point.

Six tiers, three divisions each. Infernal has no divisions.

Your people

Add a friend in two taps.

Search a handle, hit Add, and it's done the moment they accept. No follower counts, no suggested-for-you, no strangers in your feed — just the people you asked for.

Friends are who you build campfires from, who you challenge, and who sees you show up.

Requests can be cancelled or declined, always.

Daily fire

One fire to keep alive today.

Your rank is forever; today's fire is just today. Lock in enough and the meter fills — a third, two thirds, then full, when it catches properly and pays out.

It resets every night. That's the whole trick: a small, finishable target you can actually hit before bed.

Completing it earns bonus XP and embers.

Challenges

Put it on the line.

Steps this week. Hours studied. Workouts logged. Challenge your campfire — or your whole university — to a friendly, time-boxed contest with a live leaderboard.

Fitness challenges can verify themselves. Connect Apple Health, Garmin or Strava and Philoi reads only the single metric the challenge needs, only for the days it runs. Connections are opt-in and read-only, and you can disconnect at any time.

Steps Study time Workouts Distance Job applications
Apple Health Steps, workouts, distance Connect
Garmin Steps, activities, distance Connect
Strava Runs, rides, distance Connect

Your health data is yours. Raw data from a connected source is visible only to you — only the agreed challenge metric is shared with the people you chose to compete against. Read the privacy policy.

Lock in with your people.

We're opening Philoi campus by campus, coming to iOS & Android.

Questions, press, or partnerships — nb@philoi.app