Unplanned deposits
Bring back your weekly limit before money moves into a gambling account outside your plan.
Control gambling
Take control before another gambling deposit becomes another loss.
Set the spending and gambling plan you want to follow. StayClear adds friction before impulsive deposits, chasing losses and the times when gambling usually goes beyond your limit.
- Set a weekly spending and gambling goal
- Plan for chasing, payday and other triggers
- Track deposits, losses and money protected
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Another deposit adds to today's loss. Keep the money you planned to protect and leave the app for ten minutes.
Control the pattern earlier
Add friction before gambling moves beyond the plan you set.
StayClear focuses on the point where a small pause can protect the rest of your money: before an unplanned deposit, a chase attempt or a gambling session that runs longer than intended.
Chasing losses
Interrupt the belief that another deposit will repair the loss and protect what remains instead.
Predictable risk periods
Plan reminders around payday, sport, weekends, late nights and patterns found in your gambling history.
Your control plan
Set the limit, prepare for pressure and learn from what happens.
StayClear turns your goal into a repeatable weekly plan and improves the timing and wording through your feedback.
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Record your starting point
Add approximate monthly losses, deposit frequency, gambling days and the patterns you want to change.
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Set a realistic weekly goal
Choose the amount, gambling frequency or specific behaviour you want to keep under control this week.
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Plan the risky moments
Select when reminders should arrive and write the reason and next step that will help you pause.
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Measure and adjust
Review deposits, losses, gambling days and reminder usefulness, then update the next week's plan.
Plan around your patterns
Bring your limit back before the situations most likely to increase spending.
Choose the risk moments that fit your own gambling instead of relying on a generic warning after the money has gone.
- Before payday money becomes available
- After a loss creates an urge to deposit again
- Before a match, race or regular betting period
- During late nights, stress, boredom or drinking
Make the benefit concrete
Model a 15-30% reduction using your own monthly losses.
Use your current monthly figure to see how a reduction in the range reported by comparable personalised-feedback studies could affect your budget.
- Keep more money available for bills, food, savings and plans.
- Reduce the number of deposits made on impulse or while chasing.
- Review what changed and improve the next reminder.
Measure real progress
See whether gambling is taking less money and less space in your week.
Compare each week with your starting point and use the result to focus future reminders where they can be most useful.
Evidence behind the approach
Personalised feedback has reduced gambling expenditure in comparable research.
A randomised trial found lower gambling expenditure after personalised written or telephone feedback. StayClear combines personal context with timely reminders, weekly goals and repeated review.
Read the randomised trial
15-29%
reduction in gambling expenditure over 12 weeks in written and telephone personalised-feedback groups, compared with 3% in controls
Common questions
Questions about controlling gambling with StayClear
How can StayClear help me control gambling spending?
You set a weekly goal, identify when spending usually increases and choose what you want to do instead. StayClear sends that plan before the relevant times and helps you review the result.
Can I set reminders for chasing losses?
Yes. Add losses and repeat deposits as a risk pattern, choose the timing and write the action you want to follow when the urge to win money back appears.
Can StayClear use my gambling transaction history?
Yes. You can upload CSV, Excel, PDF, OFX, QIF or text exports from gambling accounts. StayClear can use the history to identify operators, timing and deposit patterns that may improve future reminders.
What progress can I record?
Weekly reviews can record gambling days, deposits, losses, chasing, urges, money protected and whether each reminder was useful.
Can I change my weekly limit and reminders?
Yes. Update your goal, add new context and improve the timing or wording whenever your circumstances or gambling patterns change.
Start your control plan
Choose how StayClear should interrupt your risky gambling moments.
Both plans include weekly goals, personal risk moments, action plans, progress reviews and reminder feedback. Premium adds SMS alongside email.