Gisted

Where your updates live.

Gisted is one calm inbox for your estate, your children's school, your church, your club and the businesses you use. Only the people you choose can reach you. Inside it, mini-apps let you pay your group's dues and reach your family when it matters.

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The Gisted inbox with updates from Lekki Gardens Estate, St. Anne's PTA and Ikoyi Runners, and the dock of groups and mini-apps

How it works

  1. Install and sign in

    Sign in with a one-time code sent to your phone or email. There's no password to forget.

  2. Follow who you choose

    Tap a link or enter a code from your estate, school, church or a business. That tap is your yes. Nobody can add you to a list.

  3. Read, reply and pay

    Updates land in your inbox under the sender's name. Mute a sender, or unfollow them whenever you like.

The inbox

Everything your groups and businesses send you, in one place you control.

Only who you chose
No spam and no strangers. A sender appears only after you follow them.
Sorted by sender
Updates are grouped by day under the sender's name, and every group or business you follow sits in your dock.
Urgent alerts come through
A security notice or emergency reaches you even when you've muted that sender.
Replies and polls
Answer a question or vote in a poll from the message itself. Only the sender sees your reply.
Mute or leave anytime
Quiet a sender for a while, or unfollow them and their messages stop.
Your own backup
Back up your inbox to your own storage, protected with a passphrase, and restore it on a new phone.

Mini-apps

Gisted has small apps inside it, so you can do more without installing anything else.

Finance

Dues, levies and ajo, paid on time and straight to your group's own bank account.

  • Members pay by card, transfer or USSD and get a receipt for every payment.
  • Admins see a live board of who has paid and who is owing.
  • Reminders go out automatically, so nobody has to chase.
  • Ajo turns are kept in order, and each turn's money goes to that recipient.
  • More than one admin, arrears tracking, and an export for meetings.
Finance: a treasurer's view of a ₦15,000 levy, 38 of 52 members paid
For the treasurerWho has paid and who still owes.
Finance: a member's view of what they owe, with a Pay button
For membersWhat you owe, and one tap to pay.

Contacts

Reach the people you trust who also use Gisted, and call for help when it matters.

  • SOS alerts your emergency contacts, and it asks you to confirm before it sends.
  • Message one person or a saved group, now or at a time you pick.
  • Only people already in Gisted can be reached. It's not a way to message strangers.
Contacts: the home screen with the Send SOS button and emergency contacts
SOSYour emergency contacts, one tap away.
Contacts: writing a message to three people
MessagesTo one person or a whole group.

More mini-apps are coming, such as events and tickets, estate services and finding trusted artisans.

Groups on Gisted

If you run a group, Gisted gives you one place to tell everyone what's happening and collect what's due.

  • Estates and residents' associations

    Gate and water notices, security alerts, service charge and levies.

  • Schools and PTAs

    Term updates and reminders for parents, plus PTA levies.

  • Churches and mosques

    Service times and announcements, plus dues and project contributions.

  • Associations and unions

    Meeting notices, polls before decisions, and monthly dues.

  • Alumni sets, clubs and cooperatives

    Event updates and replies, plus levies and subscriptions.

  • Ajo and esusu circles

    Turn reminders, and each turn's money paid to that recipient.

Are you a business? Send updates to your customers with GistSend.

Pricing

Free during the pilot.

Reading updates, replying and using Contacts are free. If a Finance payment carries a fee, it is shown in the total before you pay, so nobody is charged anything they did not see.

Questions

Is Gisted free?

Yes. Reading updates, replying and using Contacts are free. If a Finance payment carries a fee, you see it in the total before you pay.

Who can send me messages?

Only the groups and businesses you followed yourself, and people in Contacts who already use Gisted. Unfollow a sender and their messages stop.

Does Gisted hold our money?

No. Payments settle to your group's verified bank account through Paystack, usually the next business day.

What does it cost?

Gisted is free during the pilot. Any fee on a Finance payment is shown in the total before you pay.

How do ajo payouts work?

Each member's contributions go straight to that turn's recipient's bank as they come in (usually the next working day), not as one lump sum. Recipients add their bank a few days before their turn.

Can members pay by transfer?

Yes: card, bank transfer and USSD through Paystack.

What if a member pays the admin directly?

Mark it as paid, or approve the proof they upload.

Can we have more than one admin?

Yes, with roles.

Is it on iPhone?

Android first. iPhone is coming.

What happens to our data?

We follow the Nigeria Data Protection Act. The privacy notice explains what we collect, how long we keep it, and who processes it.

Join the waitlist

Send us an email and we'll write back to get you started. Tell us your name, your phone number, and if you run a group, what kind it is (such as an estate, school, church, association, alumni set or ajo circle) and roughly how many members it has.

support@staygisted.com

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