Last updated October 29, 2026

Terms of service

These terms govern your use of the Agōn app (including an Agōn Premium subscription) and your membership in Agōn, an accountability program for men. Agōn is operated by Agon 1230 LLC, a Pennsylvania limited liability company (“Agōn,” “we,” “us”), and was created by Mark Sentell. By using the app, you agree to the parts of these terms that apply to it (including Agōn Premium and conduct in the app). By signing the Agōn covenant and setting up payment, you agree to all of these terms. The covenant you sign is part of this agreement.

1. Eligibility

Agōn is for men 17 and older. You join by agreeing to the Agōn commitments and completing signup. We review every signup and may release any member before his cohort's kickoff, for any reason, with nothing owed. A member who is 17 needs a parent or guardian to co-sign the covenant and agree to these terms, and that parent or guardian is responsible for payment.

2. What a cohort membership includes

Each season lasts 12 weeks plus a rest week. It includes a weekly group video call of 30 to 40 minutes, a seat in the Agōn Slack workspace with daily prompts and tracking, a cohort channel, Agōn Premium in the app (see section 3), and a free digital copy of Giving Account. Your cohort begins once at least three men have committed to the same time slot. We'll tell you the kickoff date before it starts.

Your first call is the lock-in call, where your rule of commitments (your 12:30+1) is finalized with your leader. Your daily accounts, and any fines for missed commitments, begin the day after your rule is locked in. After lock-in you may add commitments, or make one stricter, in the Agōn app. Changes count going forward only. You can't remove a commitment or make one lighter during the season.

3. The Agōn app: Agōn Standard and Agōn Premium

Anyone can use the Agōn app for free (“Agōn Standard”). Agōn Standard has limits, which the app shows where they apply: for example, one journal, one photo or voice note in a journal entry, the journal on one device, three routines, and no links between tools (such as adding a Follow Through from prayer or your journal). An accountability partnership requires Agōn Premium for at least one of the two partners. “Agōn Premium” is an optional upgrade, bought as a subscription or as a one-time Lifetime purchase, that removes those limits and adds features such as journal voice note summaries, prayer list icons and header images, texting your accountability partner when you ask for prayer, workout import, personal API tokens, and the Claude connector. What each tier includes is listed on our pricing page and in the app, and may change over time.

Price. Agōn Premium is $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year by subscription, or $99.99 once for Lifetime, in the United States. In the App Store and Google Play, the price is shown in your local currency before you buy, and may include tax.
Lifetime. Agōn Premium Lifetime is a one-time purchase. It isn't a subscription and never renews. It gives you Premium for as long as we offer and maintain Agōn Premium, on the Agōn account you bought it with: “lifetime” means the life of Agōn Premium, not of the buyer. It includes Premium features we add later, though we may offer separate add-ons, and the voice transcription limits below apply to it as they do to subscriptions. If you bought it in the App Store or Google Play, use Restore Purchases to get it back on a new device with the same store account; because it's tied to your Agōn account, we'll also honor it wherever you sign in to that account, including on the web and the other platform. If we ever stop offering Agōn Premium, we'll give you at least 90 days' notice and a way to export your journals, prayers, and everything else you made. If Agōn is sold, we'll make honoring Lifetime purchases part of the sale where we can. We may end a Lifetime purchase for fraud, account sharing, or a serious breach of these terms. If you already pay for a subscription: one on agon1230.com ends at the close of the period you've paid for when you buy Lifetime; one in the App Store or Google Play you must cancel there yourself, because buying Lifetime doesn't cancel it.
Voice transcription. Premium includes up to 300 minutes of voice note transcription per calendar month, with each recording up to 10 minutes. Unused minutes don't roll over. If you reach the monthly limit, you can keep journaling and attaching voice notes; transcription and summaries resume at the start of the next month. We may adjust these limits with notice, and they will never fall below what's needed for typical daily use.
Free trial. New subscribers may get a 7-day free trial, once per person. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, it becomes a paid subscription and you're charged when the trial ends.
Automatic renewal. A Premium subscription (not Lifetime) renews automatically at the end of each month or year, at the then-current price, until you cancel. To avoid the next charge, cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. When you cancel, you keep Premium until the end of the period you've paid for.
Bought in the App Store or Google Play. Apple or Google bills you, and their terms also apply (if you got the app from the App Store, so does Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement). Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID's subscription settings (Settings → your name → Subscriptions) or in Google Play (Payments & subscriptions). Refunds for these purchases are decided by Apple or Google under their policies; we can't issue them.
Bought on agon1230.com. Stripe bills the card you enter. Manage or cancel it in the app on the web under Me → Premium → Manage subscription, or email us. Payments aren't refundable for a partial period, except where the law requires it; if you were charged by mistake, email support@agon1230.com within 30 days and we'll make it right.
Price changes. We may change Premium's price. A change never affects a Lifetime purchase already made. For subscriptions, we'll tell you in advance, and a new price applies only from your next renewal after the notice (in the App Store and Google Play, under their rules for price changes, which may ask for your consent).
Cohort members and captains. An Agōn cohort membership includes Premium while you're committed to or in a season, and for 14 days after your season's last day; captains of a forming or running cohort have it too. If you're also paying for Premium during that time, we pause a subscription bought on agon1230.com until your cohort's Premium ends. We can't pause or cancel an App Store or Google Play subscription for you; we'll remind you how to cancel it.
When Premium ends. Nothing you made is deleted. Your journals, entries, photos, routines, and devices stay, and you can keep using them; you just can't add more than Agōn Standard allows. An accountability partnership in which neither partner has Premium is paused until one of you does. Prayer list icons and header images are hidden until you have Premium again.
Gifts. We may give Premium to anyone for a time, at our discretion, and end a gift at the date we gave.
Deleting your account cancels a Premium subscription bought on agon1230.com. It doesn't cancel an App Store or Google Play subscription: cancel that in the store first.

4. Cohort price and billing

Membership is $12.30 every two weeks, which is $73.80 per season, unless you've been given a scholarship, a discounted rate, or a discount code. Your rate is shown before you set up payment, and it applies for that season.
Student rate: if you're a full-time student 24 or younger when you join, membership is $12.30 per month ($36.90 per season), and daily commitments are fined once per day on which you miss any of them instead of once per missed commitment. We may ask you to confirm your enrollment, and we may move you to the standard rate before kickoff if you don't qualify.
You're billed in three equal payments ($24.60 each at the standard rate). The first is charged the day after your cohort's second weekly call, and the next two follow at four-week intervals. The rest week isn't billed.
Payments are processed by Stripe and charged automatically to the bank account or card you saved when you joined.
Tools or apps we recommend for tracking, journaling, or finances may have their own fees. Those fees are yours to pay and aren't included in your membership.
If a payment fails, Stripe will email you a link to update your payment method. Unpaid balances may lead to removal from your cohort. Removal doesn't cancel the balance.

5. Withdrawal, cancellation, and refunds

Free withdrawal window: you may withdraw at any time up to and including the day of your cohort's second weekly call. If you do, you owe nothing and are never charged, and any fines from that period are cancelled.
After the second call, you are committed to the full season. If you withdraw after that point, the remaining membership payments for the season are still due, billed on their usual dates.
Fines when you withdraw: fines from weeks that closed before you withdrew stay due. Nothing new is fined after you withdraw.
Hardship: if you face a genuine hardship during a season, such as losing your job or a medical or family emergency, tell Mark. He may release you from some or all of the remaining payments and unbilled fines. Releases are at his discretion and don't apply to payments already made.
Refunds: because nothing is charged during the free window, membership payments are not refundable. If we cancel a cohort before it starts, you owe nothing. If we end a season early for reasons of our own, we'll refund the unused weeks.
To withdraw, use Withdraw on the billing page at agon1230.com/billing, email support@agon1230.com, or tell Mark directly.

6. Fines and the mission jar

You set your own fines when you join. The minimum depends on your plan: normally $1.23 for each missed commitment and $12.30 for each missed call. You get one missed commitment per week and one missed call per month free. On the student rate, daily commitments are fined per missed day instead, and one missed day per week is free.
A day you don't report by 9:00 a.m. the next morning (in your time zone) counts as missing every daily commitment for that day.
Fines are added to your monthly invoice. Any fines left after your last membership payment are billed on a final invoice after the season ends.
Fines are voluntary commitments you make under the covenant, not penalties we impose. We may waive or reduce any fine at our discretion.
We hold all fines in a separate account and give them to the mission cause your cohort chooses, usually at the end of the season. If we can't give to that cause, we'll ask your cohort to choose another.
Agōn is not a charity. Your fines are not tax-deductible, and we don't issue donation receipts.

7. Sabbath, grace days, and changes

Sabbath: when you join, you may choose a weekly Sabbath (Saturday or Sunday) or none. On your Sabbath your daily commitments aren't due, aren't fined, and don't break your streak, and giving account is optional. Weekly targets stay the same, and reps you log on your Sabbath count toward them. This is in addition to your free miss each week. You can change your Sabbath in the Agōn app; once your season is counting, a change starts with your next cohort week.

You may request up to 7 grace days a season, subject to approval. We may approve more, excuse days, or correct your records at our discretion, and every change is logged.

8. Conduct

You agree to be honest in your reports, respectful on calls and in Slack, and to keep what others share inside the cohort, as the covenant describes. We may remove a member who harasses others, shares another member's confidences, or repeatedly disrupts the cohort. Removal for conduct doesn't cancel the rest of the season's payments.

In the Agōn app. These conduct rules apply to everyone who uses the Agōn app, member or not. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users: don't post or share anything hateful, sexually explicit, harassing, threatening, or unlawful, and don't use the app to bully or demean anyone. You can report anything shared with you, and block any man, from inside the app. We review every report within 24 hours, remove content that breaks these rules, and remove the account of anyone who posts it.

9. Not professional advice

Agōn offers spiritual encouragement and peer accountability. It is not medical, psychological, financial, or legal advice or treatment. Talk with your doctor before you begin fasting, a diet, or an exercise program. If you're in crisis, contact local emergency services.

10. Slack and third-party services

Your use of Slack and Stripe is also governed by their own terms. We pay for your Slack seat while you're a member, and we may remove you from the workspace after you leave or your season ends.

11. Text messages

Agon text alerts are optional text messages from Agon 1230 LLC, operating as Agōn (agon1230.com). You only receive the kinds you sign up for:

Evening reminder (members): one text each evening at the time you choose, reminding you to give your account. On your Sabbath it's a Sabbath note instead.
SOS alerts (anyone with the app): as needed, when a partner in your cohort or your accountability partner asks for help or prayer.
Weekly report (people a member invites): one text when his week closes, summarizing how his week went.

Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies as described above. Text HELP for help, or email support@agon1230.com. Text STOP at any time to opt out; you'll receive one confirmation and no further texts. You can also turn texts off in the Agōn app. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. SOS alerts are not an emergency service: if someone is in danger, call 911, or call or text 988. See our Privacy Policy.

12. Limitation of liability

Agōn is provided as is. To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for any claim related to Agōn is limited to the membership fees you paid in the season the claim arose, or, for the app and Premium, what you paid us for Premium in the 12 months before the claim arose. We're not liable for indirect or consequential damages.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms between seasons. Changes to a cohort membership apply to the next season you join, and never to one already under way. Changes to the app and Agōn Premium are posted here, and we'll tell you in the app before a material change takes effect.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Contact

Agōn · Agon 1230 LLC · support@agon1230.com