What is a Spotter?

A Spotter is someone you choose to share your progress with. They can see your momentum and completions — plus any task you choose to loop them in on — cheer you on, and give you a friendly push when you go quiet. You pick exactly who's in your circle — it's a small group of people who actually have your back, not a popularity contest.

Adding a Spotter

Tap + Add Spotter to connect with someone. There are a few easy ways:

• Use a Spotter ID — every account has a short Spotter ID. Type in a friend's ID (or share yours) to send a connection request.
• Send an email — switch to the Email tab, pop in a friend's email address, and we'll send them your personal invite link. They tap it to connect.
• Share your link — send your personal invite link by text or chat. When they tap it, they can connect with you in one step.

However someone connects, nothing is shared until you both accept — and a Spotter only ever sees your momentum, when you last finished a task, anything you choose to broadcast, and any task you choose to loop them in on. Your other tasks, notes, and private content stay private.

Accepting or declining

When someone asks to be your Spotter, you'll see their request at the top of the Spotters screen. Tap Accept to connect, or Decline if you'd rather not — they won't be told you said no. A connection only starts once you both agree.

Ways to support each other

There are just a few ways, so it's easy to remember which does what:

• Cheer — a quick, one-tap celebration when they finish something or reach a milestone. It's the fastest way to show up for someone — tap the Cheer buttons right on their card.
• Message — send a few words: a gentle "don't forget," an encouraging note when they're stuck, or a cheer with something to say. It's one Message button on their card — pick text or a voice message.
• Commit — tell a Spotter you're going to do something, so they can hold you to it.
• Focus together — when a Spotter is online, start a quiet "work alongside me" session and get going side by side. Joining a room a Spotter opened is free; opening one is a Pro feature (see Focus rooms below).

The activity feed & broadcasts

The Activity tab shows what's happening in your circle — wins, nudges, and cheers as they come in. A broadcast is a short update you post for all your Spotters at once, like "Heads-down for the next hour." It's a simple way to share where you're at without messaging everyone one by one.

"Active now" & presence

A small green dot shows when a Spotter was recently using the app, so you know who's around to do something together. You can turn your own dot off any time in Settings → Privacy & Data → "Show my activity to Spotters."

Challenges

A challenge is a shared goal you take on with your Spotters — like everyone finishing three tasks this week. They're a fun, low-pressure way to keep each other moving and celebrate together when you pull it off.

Focus together (focus rooms)

A focus room is a quiet "work alongside me" session — we call it Focus together. When a Spotter is online you can start one and work on your own thing at the same time; just knowing someone else is heads-down too makes it easier to start. This is sometimes called body-doubling, and it's a favourite trick for beating procrastination. Joining a room a Spotter opened is free; opening a room is a Pro feature.

Circles (Pro)

A Circle is a small, named group of a few of your Spotters who agree to keep going together — a shared team, not a feed. Open it from the Circles button at the top of the Spotters screen (that's the one place it lives): name it, pick a few Spotters, and you can cheer everyone at once or start a Focus together session as a group. It's part of Onzy Pro.

Little nudge cards

Now and then Onzy shows a gentle prompt on your Spotters screen — like "Need a hand to get started?" or "Haven't seen someone in a while — want to check in?" If it's not useful right now, just dismiss it: tap the small X or swipe it away. It stays gone for about a week, and only comes back if it still fits.

Your privacy & controls

You're always in charge of what others see and whether people can find you.

What a Spotter can see:

• Your name, Spotter ID and photo.
• Your day count and time zone — that you're showing up.
• When you were last active — you can turn this off any time in Settings → Privacy & Data → "Show my activity to Spotters."
• Your birthday (month and day only), if you added one.
• Anything you broadcast to them, messages and voice notes you send them, and any group burst events you join together.
• Any task you choose to share with them — only that task.

What they never see: your email, phone, password, coach check-ins, billing info, or any task you haven't shared.

More controls:

• Show less to one Spotter — tap what they see on their card to switch between everything, momentum and minimal.
• Hide when you're active — turn off the green "active now" dot in Settings → Privacy & Data.
• Stop people finding you — you can opt out of being discovered by Spotter ID, or turn Spotters off entirely, from your privacy settings.

How many Spotters can I have?

On the free plan you can have up to 5 Spotters. With Onzy Pro that goes up to 15. We keep the circle small on purpose — a handful of people who really know your goals helps far more than a long list.