# About nobuyclub — Who We Are & Why We Built It

> nobuyclub is a small independent team in Santa Barbara building the free no-buy challenge tracker — no ads, no accounts, your data stays on your phone.
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> Canonical: https://nobuyclub.com/about.html
> Author: The nobuyclub Team

**nobuyclub** is the free tracker for no-buy and no-spend challenges — set your rules, keep your streak, log every temptation you resist, and watch the money you kept add up.

## Why we built it

The no-buy movement got huge — TikTok is full of no-buy 2026 lists and underconsumption core — but the tools didn't keep up. People were tracking year-long challenges in screenshots and spreadsheets. Budgeting apps wanted a login, a subscription, and your bank credentials just to tell you not to buy a candle. That felt backwards.

So we built the opposite: a tracker that opens in five seconds, works offline, never asks who you are, and keeps every bit of your data on your own phone. No accounts. No ads. No selling your attention back to the stores you're trying to avoid.

The [iPhone app is on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nobuyclub-no-buy-tracker/id6798120973) — same tracker, same rules, same free forever.

## How we make money

Simply: the app is free, and there's an optional one-time **$9.99 Founding Member unlock** for extra card themes, streak freezes, and future pro features. No subscriptions, ever. Some links to savings accounts are labeled partner links. That's the whole business model — it keeps us on your side of the checkout page.

## What we believe

Not buying things is a skill, and skills grow with a scoreboard. The dollars you don't spend are as real as the ones you earn — you just have to see them. And your financial habits are nobody's business but yours, which is why your challenge data never leaves your device. If you want the national picture of where household money actually goes, the [BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey](https://www.bls.gov/cex/) publishes it every year, and university programs like [Iowa State Extension](https://www.extension.iastate.edu/) teach the same money-management skills we build into the app.

### Join the club ✦

Free forever. No account. Your first check-in takes ten seconds.

[Start your no-buy →](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nobuyclub-no-buy-tracker/id6798120973)

## Get in touch

Questions, ideas, press: [support@nobuyclub.com](mailto:support@nobuyclub.com) — or find us on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/nobuyclub/) and [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@nobuyclub).