iPhone · ages 16+
The whole app gets the same task at the same moment. Fifteen seconds to say what you actually think. Then you swipe through everybody else's — right if you agree, left if you don't — and find out who agrees with you back.
Today it could ask
What is everyone wrong about?
A hundred of them, and the app never tells you which is next. You answer out of your own head, from wherever you're sitting. No prop, nowhere to go, nothing to prepare.
Have a go ↓
Try it — five answers, your thumb
Here is one real task and five answers to it. Judge them the way you would in the feed — drag the card, or use the buttons. Nobody is right. That's the point of the number at the end.
Today's task
What is the biggest waste of money?
Bottled water. You are buying a bottle.
0:12 · one take
Card 1 of 5.
Where the room went on this one
Who you agree with
The answers here are written for the demo. In the app they're fifteen-second videos of real people, and the task is whichever one dropped that day.
The one number on your profile
Not followers. Not how many clips you've posted — that only ever goes up, and all it proves is that you've been here a while. Agreement is the share of swipes on your own answers that went right, across everyone who judged you in the last ninety days. Your own swipes never count towards it.
Under 40
The room is against you. Which, depending on the day and the take, is the most interesting thing on your profile.
40 to 70
You split it down the middle. This is not a failing grade — a take that divides a room is the thing the app was built to find.
70 and up
People keep agreeing with you. Comfortable, and worth asking whether you're saying anything.
It's a fact about you, not a position against your friends. Nobody is above or below you in it, it never finishes, and an account four days old can be winning it.
The asymmetry, which is the design
Under every answer
A rail showing which way it's going. No names on it and no numbers — just the shape of the room. Enough to know you said something; not enough to turn it into a scoreboard.
On your own bio, and nowhere else
Tap your agreement ring and it opens up person by person: who agrees with you most, and exactly what they agreed with you on. Only you can open it, and only for your own answers.
So you can disagree with a friend's take without it being a public act — and still be answerable for it to the one person it's actually about.
How a day goes
A different minute every day, worked out from the date itself, so every phone near you lands on the same one — and your phone counts down to it. It arrives at a civilised hour wherever you are; nobody in Melbourne is woken at three in the morning for a task timed for Amsterdam.
Fifteen seconds. Long enough to say the thing, too short to perform it. Retake as many times as you like — but only your first one wears a ONE TAKE badge, so nerve counts more than editing. Thirty minutes to post it if you want it to keep your streak.
Right if you agree, left if you don't. Same gesture everywhere in the app, learned once. Change your mind by swiping the other way — the last verdict is the one that counts.
Top the day's board and you get thirty minutes to write tomorrow's task for the whole app. Then it starts again, and yesterday goes to your profile, where it stays.
Miss the window and you can still post. Your answer goes up wearing LATE — still watched, still judged, it just doesn't keep your streak. The deadline is the only thing in here that costs you anything.
Three sizes of room
Everyone
One task a day for the whole app. The feed is today's answers, people you follow first, and you judge your way down it.
A private league
Your group, its own task each round, its own clock. Everybody who answers in time goes in a hat; one name comes out and writes the next one. Nobody sees the room until they've answered — post, and the blur comes off.
A place
A café, a gym, a padel club, a house. Whoever runs it sets the task for its regulars and picks the hour it drops. A reason to turn up, not an advert.
Stakes inside a league are a private arrangement between members — bragging rights, a forfeit, who buys dinner. OnTheSpot never holds, guarantees or settles anything, and cash stakes aren't allowed.
Where the line is
The tasks ask for opinions, so the rule that matters is what an opinion is allowed to be aimed at. Tasks inside a league are written by players, which makes this a working rule rather than a formality.
Every task, answer, comment and profile can be reported in the app, and reports are reviewed within 24 hours. You can block anyone, and blocking hides them from you straight away. What you type and what you say out loud is screened automatically before it can post. If a stranger wanders into your video and objects, take it down — be a legend, not a menace.