Add the card
Store, balance, expiry, and an optional place to spend it.
The set-it-and-forget-it gift card app
Add them once. Nudge pings you near the store, opens the payment barcode, and keeps score when you finally spend the money.
Tap to open the barcode and pay.
The pitch is still the notification.
$27B unused gift card value in the US
43% of adults hold an unused card
1 in 3 simply forget their cards exist
How it works
A quiet tripwire between the junk drawer and the checkout counter.
Store, balance, expiry, and an optional place to spend it.
That is fine now. The phone watches the saved store geofence.
Walk nearby and Nudge surfaces the money at exactly the useful moment.
Open Wallet Mode, spend, and move the win into your lifetime total.
Wallet Mode · optional
Scan the gift card’s barcode once. At the store, Nudge turns the notification into a full-brightness payment screen with the original barcode format and a number fallback.
$25 available
Nearby now · Pro
See every active store geofence on one private, value-labelled map. Sort by what is closest, frame every saved place, and jump straight to Pay.
Automatic nudges stay free. Pro unlocks the map convenience—not the reminder itself.
Found money, not card management
The enemy is not your wallet. It is forgetting at the wrong moment.
Your phone watches the stores you save. Walk nearby and the reminder appears—even when Nudge is not open.
Different cards get different reminder ladders, including urgent promo expiries and month-11 prepaid-card fee warnings.
Optionally scan the payment barcode, protect it with biometrics, and go from notification to register-ready Pay in two taps.
Pro turns active store geofences into a value-labelled treasure map, sorted by what is closest to you right now.
Private by architecture
Balances, notes, store locations, and recovered totals stay in the local card database.
Wallet Mode barcodes and optional PINs live in Keychain or Keystore-backed storage, outside exports.
Geofencing is on-device. Nudge does not build or upload a location history.
There is no shopping profile to sell and no financial account to compromise.
Free to find the first dollars
Every plan keeps the core loop intact. A fired nudge is never put behind a paywall.
Nudge Free
$0forever
Enough to feel a real store nudge before deciding anything.
Nudge Pro
$9.99/ year
7-day free trial · about 83¢/month
Or $1.99 monthly · $24.99 lifetime
A small origin story
“We found 14 cards in our own junk drawer. Seven still had money on them.”
That is not clutter. That is a very quiet donation to a corporation.
Money you already paid is still your money.
Good questions
You enter and update them. Automatic balance checking across hundreds of retailers is unreliable; Nudge stays simple, private, and accurate.
No location history is uploaded. Your phone’s operating system watches only the store geofences you choose. Nudge has no location-tracking server.
No. Reminder-only mode never needs a full card number or PIN. Wallet Mode is opt-in and stores barcode secrets separately in iOS Keychain or Android Keystore-backed storage.
Three active cards, one saved location per card, automatic location nudges, expiry and fee alarms, archiving, Wallet Mode, and your recovered-money total.
Unlimited cards, all nearby branches, on-device card scanning, backup/export, and the interactive Nearby now map. Annual Pro is $9.99 with a 7-day trial; monthly and lifetime options are available too.
Both. Nudge is built for iPhone and Android, with the same private, on-device reminder loop.
Launching on iPhone + Android
Nudge is in final physical-device testing for background arrival alerts, Wallet Mode, and store purchases.
Three active cards. Real automatic nudges. No account.