01 · See all of it
Your real year, in one place.
- Up to a year of your history, read straight from your books
- Every book you connect, together in one record
- Your heaviest hours, days and sports, named plainly
The gap
Other tools help. Lessen adds the early warning.
Blockers close apps. Bank limits slow the money. Therapy and groups work on the why. Keep them. What they do not have is your betting record. Lessen reads the record from the sportsbooks you connect, finds the hours you usually bet, and reaches you before those hours with something to do instead.
THE URGE BUILDS
THE BET
THE MORNING AFTER
BEFORE YOUR RISKY HOURS · READS YOUR RECORD
It reads the record from your connected books, finds your usual risky hours, and reaches you before them, with something to do instead.
Quit or Lessen
Two ways to use it. You pick at the start.
Sample numbers, for illustration. Yours come from your own record.
Quit Mode
Stop completely.
47
days without a bet
$1,240 stayed put since March 12
One number, counted in days.
Lessen Mode
Bet less, not zero.
$38
of $60 this week
4 days in, $38 spent, 3 days left. At this pace the week ends near $52, under the $60 cap.
6 of the last 8 weeks under budget
A weekly budget, counted in dollars and pace.
Quit Mode and Lessen Mode are two complete plans. Choose the one that fits what you want. You can switch in either direction. Your history stays.
On day one
See your year of patterns, in an instant
The moment your sportsbook connects, Lessen turns a year of scattered slips into numbers you may never have seen in one place.
And that's the short list. There's plenty more inside the app.
First sync · the instant your book connects
Heavy
Heaviest
Bets imported
2,847 slips · 11 months covered
Every settled slip your books still hold.
Illustrative. Your numbers come from your own slips.
How Lessen works
Six steps, start to finish.
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Connect
Your sportsbook, linked through a secure connector. Read-only. Lessen never sees your login.
STEP 02 / 06
Import
Up to a year of historical bet slips comes in. Nothing typed, nothing remembered.
STEP 03 / 06
Build the profile
Your personal pattern, built from your real bets.
STEP 04 / 06
Spot the windows
Your risky hours, flagged ahead of time, with the reason why.
STEP 05 / 06
Offer an out
Something to do instead arrives before the risky hours, not after.
STEP 06 / 06
Learn and measure
It keeps what you actually use, and measures the change over time.
Most tracking apps hand you a blank page and ask you to fill it in honestly. Lessen starts with the year you already lived, and gives you the tools for your money, your relationships, and your head.
It estimates from your pattern. It never watches a bet happen.
Get the app
Put Lessen on the phone the bets live on.
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11:52 PM
For many people, the risky hours land late at night, when most help is asleep. Lessen reads your bet history, learns the pattern, and reaches you without you lifting a finger.
7:06 AM
By day it works in the background, recalculates, and reaches you if it needs to.
Everything you get
Not another tracker. The whole system.
The pieces that help you stop or cut back, built around something most recovery tools never see: your real betting record.
02 · Stop it before it starts
Help that shows up first.
- An alert 30 minutes before your riskiest hours, with three moves ready
- “About to bet?” One tap, any time, and the same three moves are there
- Lock me down. Five steps that wall off the next 24 hours
03 · Walls that hold
A protection plan, step by step.
- Set deposit limits at every book
- Block gambling payments at your bank
- Put a blocker on your phone, and more, with exactly where to tap
04 · Never alone with it
Someone to talk to, any hour.
- Les, text first, sees your whole record and never gives betting advice
- Your person, one tap away when a window gets rough
- A private page for a partner or therapist. You choose what they see
05 · Numbers, not guesses
See how your betting is changing.
- Progress from settled bets on your connected books, never a survey or a feeling
- A weekly review, a month in review, and your old pace to compare
- A 30-day check, with a promise behind it
Keep the rest of your stack.
A blocker, therapy, a bank block, a Tuesday meeting. None of them conflict with Lessen, and plenty of people run all of it at once.
What they do not have is your betting record. Lessen runs underneath them, estimates your risky hours from your own history, and warns you in time to use whichever one works for you.
A meeting
Keeps you honest
Therapy
Works on the why
A bank block
Slows the money
A blocker
Closes the doors
Lessen
The layer underneath all of them.
Finds your risky hours
Run it alongside any of them, or all of them.
Meet Les
Your personal recovery assistant.
Les has your real record to work from. Ask why Thursday keeps showing up, plan what to do instead tonight, make sense of a rough week, or see how far you've come. Les answers about you, not in general, and shows you the chart.
Les
Ask about your own numbers
A sample conversation, with sample numbers. Les can see your whole betting record and never gives betting advice.
Your first seven days
The 7-Day Reset. Seven steps back on track.
By day 7, these are the seven things you’ll have done to reset. Do them in this order. The first three come with setting up Lessen, and Lessen walks you through the rest, one at a time. Your alerts start right away.
1See your real yearEvery bet, every dollar, and your riskiest hours.
2Name your money goalWhat you’ll bet instead, if anything, and where the money goes.
3Choose your personSomeone one tap away when a window gets rough.
4Answer your first alertAlerts start right away, before your riskiest hours.
5Set deposit limitsAt every book you connected.
6Block gambling paymentsAt your bank, so the card says no.
7Add a phone blockerThe apps and sites stop opening.
Week 1See it, then wall it offYour whole betting year, then the seven steps. Alerts start right away.
Week 2Settle into itAnswer your alerts, use the tools, and invite someone in if you want.
Week 3See the changeYour own bets show what’s different, in numbers.
Week 4The 30-day checkYour first month with Lessen, next to your average month before it.
The Lessen promise
Bet less in your first 30 days, or your first payment back.
Use Lessen the way it’s built for 30 days. If your own books show you didn’t bet less than before, we refund your first payment.
- Open it daily
- Answer 4 in 5 alerts
- Three walls in week one
- Books stay connected
Example
Your 30-day check puts these two side by side, from your own books.
Data & safety
Read-only. By design, not by promise.
Lessen never holds your sportsbook login. The connection runs through a separate service that handles the login; Lessen never sees it. If you want the full detail, it is on the Data & Safety page.
Logos are trademarks of their owners. Naming a book means Lessen can read it, not that they endorse Lessen.
Encrypted in transit and at rest. Disconnect whenever you want. Syncing stops the moment you do.
What it can see. What it can't.
Can see
Bet slips from the books you connect, machine-read
Stakes and timestamps
Which book each bet came from
Can never see
Deposits or withdrawals
Your bank balance or card
Anything outside your sportsbook
The connection is read-only. Lessen can't place a bet, move money, or change anything in your account. It refreshes when you open the app and several times a day on its own. You can also refresh it yourself twice a day.
What betting costs you
a week
Onto bets each month$650
Onto bets each year$7,800
Bet 10% less, and each month this stays off the table$65
Lessen
Your first 7 days, with the Lessen promise.
Freethen $24.99 a month
At $150 a week, about $650 a month goes onto bets. Lessen costs about 4% of that, about what you put on bets in one day. Bet just 10% less and $65 a month stays off the table, more than twice what Lessen costs.
Your number stays on this page. Nothing you choose here is sent anywhere.
Pricing
For less than the cost of one bet.
Free
Your 7-Day Reset is free
The Lessen promiseBet less in your first 30 days, or your first payment back.When you use Lessen as built. See how it worksUp to a year of your real betting history, read automatically
Every book you connect, in one place
Alerts before your riskiest hours, with moves ready
“About to bet?” help, and a 24-hour lock-down
A protection plan: deposit limits, bank block, blocker
Les, who sees your whole record
Progress from real bets, and a 30-day check
Sharing, with up to three people you choose
Quit Mode and Lessen Mode, switch anytime
See my Risk Profile
Then $24.99 a month, or $179.99 a year, for your first sportsbook, and $4.99 a month for each one you add, up to three in total. Cancel any time, in the same place you paid. The Lessen promise refunds your first payment if you don’t bet less in your first 30 days and meet its conditions.
Where it sits
What each one does, side by side.
Blockers, journals and therapy each do a real job. None of them reads your betting record. Lessen reads the record from your connected books and reaches you before your usual risky hours.
LessenThe whole system
Blocker apps
Urge journals
Therapy
Reads your betting record
Automatically, from your connected books
Not what it is for
Only what you remember to write
Only what you remember to say
Estimates your risky hours ahead of time
From up to a year of your own bets
Not what it is for
Only if you log every urge
From what you bring to session
Reaches you before your risky hours
30 minutes before your riskiest hours
When you try to open a site
When you open it
At your next session
Help at 2am
Les and “About to bet?”, any hour
A blocked page
A blank page
Office hours
A measure of change
From bets on your connected books
Not what it is for
Your own notes
Your own sense of it
First payment back if you don't bet less
The Lessen promise. Conditions apply
Not usually
Not usually
Not usually
Cost
Free for 7 dayswith the Lessen promise($24.99 a month after)
$0–10 a month
$0–15 a month
$100+ a session
Blockers stop a site. Journals hold what you write. Therapy works on the why. Lessen does not replace any of them. Keep what is helping, and bring your Lessen numbers to it.
See your Risk Profile
Not sure where you land?
Nine questions, about two minutes, no account needed. It asks for your email before it shows your score and what it means. Your answers and score are not added to the email list. This is a questionnaire. The personalized risk profile exists only in the app, after you connect a sportsbook.
Problem Gambling Severity Index. Ferris & Wynne (2001), Canadian Problem Gambling Index. A screener, not a diagnosis.
Question 1 of 9
Over the last 12 months, how often have you bet more than you could really afford to lose?
Saved. Eight questions left. About two minutes.
Continue the assessmentQuestions, answered plainly.
What is the Lessen promise?
Bet less in your first 30 days than you did before Lessen, or we refund your first payment. It asks you to use Lessen for real: open it every day, answer 4 in 5 alerts, put up three walls in your first week (deposit limits, a bank block and a phone blocker), and keep your books connected. It’s measured in dollars staked on your connected books, against an average 30 days from the year before, so it needs at least 60 days and 8 bets of history. Claim by email within 14 days after your 30 days end. The refund ends that subscription, and the promise applies once per person. It is a refund promise, not a promise of recovery. Read the full promise.
What happens in the free week?
The 7-Day Reset: seven steps to have done by day 7, in this order. See your real year and your riskiest hours, name your money goal, choose your person, answer your first alert, then set deposit limits, block gambling payments at your bank and add a phone blocker. The first three come with setup, Lessen walks you through the rest, and your alerts start right away. Cancel before day 7 and you pay nothing.
What if I’m about to bet right now?
Tap “About to bet?” on the home screen. It opens three things to do instead, right away, no alert needed. If the urge is still there, “Lock me down” walks you through closing off the next 24 hours in about five minutes.
Is it safe to connect my sportsbook?
The connection is read-only and covers bet slips only. Stakes, timestamps, results. It can't place bets, move money, or see anything outside your book.
Which sportsbooks work?
Most major US sportsbooks, up to three at once. You'll see the full list inside the app when you connect.
What if I bet anyway?
Nothing scolds you and nothing is erased. The app plans for it: a relapse is named plainly, your history stays, and you choose how to move on. Talk it through, look at what led to it, or mark it and keep going.
What if I'm not ready to quit completely?
Lessen Mode helps you stay within a weekly budget. It is a complete plan of its own. Choose cutting down or stopping. You can switch in either direction, and your history stays.
How does it know when to warn me?
It learns your pattern from the history on your connected books, which days, which hours, after which kinds of losses. Windows are flagged in advance from that model. They are estimates of when risk is usually higher, not a forecast that you will bet. It doesn't watch you bet and it can't block anything.
What if I've only been betting a few months?
It works with whatever your book holds. If you've placed fewer than 60 bets in the last 90 days, the app says so plainly instead of guessing, and asks when you'd like a check-in.
Can I use more than one book?
Up to three. The first is included in the $24.99. Each extra book is $4.99 a month.
What happens if I disconnect my book?
Syncing stops immediately. You can reconnect whenever you want.
Download Lessen.
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