Holdout is a quit app for nicotine pouches. When a craving hits, you put your thumb on the circle for 3½ minutes while the tide rises, crests and drains away, live, alongside everyone else who’s quitting right now.
Free · Android · 18+
How a Hold works
Don’t fight it. Watch it build. A slow heartbeat in your hand paces your breathing: four seconds in, six out.
This is the peak. It can’t get higher than this. Lights drift in the water: other people holding at the same moment as you.
The water drains away and the craving goes with it. That’s a Hold. It goes on the board.
The board
Other quit apps rank “days clean”, which nobody can check and everybody fudges. Holdout ranks Holds: cravings you actually sat through, timed by our server. The only way to cheat is to do the work.
Slips
Had one? Log it in two taps. Your pouch-free clock resets, but your Holds and your place on the board stay exactly where they were. Nobody here has a reason to lie, and nobody quits quitting over one bad night.
Crews
Start a crew of up to 8 friends. See who’s holding right now, and send a wave that ripples across their screen mid-craving. Fill one shared tide each week.
Witness
Send a link to a partner, roommate or sibling. Once a week they tap “Yes, I vouch”, with no app and no account, and a tick appears next to your name on the board.
Holdout Plus
Rate each hold from 1 to 5 and see your cravings weaken week by week. Find your danger hours, and get a Ghost alert a few minutes before them.
Free, forever
$0
Holds, the board, crews, waves, slips and witnesses.
Plus
$24.99/yr
7-day free trial, or $3.99/month. Insights, Ghost alerts, crews of 20, tide themes.
Yes. Holds, the board, crews, waves, slip logging and witnesses are free, forever. Holdout Plus ($3.99/month or $24.99/year) adds craving insights, Ghost alerts, bigger crews and tide themes.
A nicotine craving usually builds, peaks and fades within a few minutes. The hold is timed to outlast a typical wave, so you finish on the far side of it.
The board counts Holds, and the server times every one. You can’t finish a Hold faster than real time, there’s a daily cap, and holds have to be spaced out. So the only way up the board is to actually sit through cravings, which is the whole point.
Log it. Your pouch-free clock resets, your Holds and your rank don’t. Nobody has a reason to lie, and nobody gets kicked off the board for being human.
A handle you pick and your country’s flag. No photo, no real name, no location. Your email is only used to sign in.
It’s built for pouches, but a craving is a craving. Plenty of people use it for any nicotine.
No. Holdout is a self-help tool for adults. If quitting feels like more than you can handle, a doctor or pharmacist can help with nicotine replacement options.
