Every app wants something from you. This one is honest about it.
Attention. Data. $9.99 a month, cancel anytime, please don't. Largess asks for something far simpler: your money, freely given, for nothing.
There is no premium tier. There is no roadmap. There is no mission statement about changing the world. One independent creator built this, and the entire feature set is a button that sends him money.
In 2008, an app called I Am Rich sold for $999.99 on the App Store. It did nothing. Eight people bought it in a day, and Apple removed it — the gatekeepers decided the rich could not be trusted to spend their own money on nothing. Largess lives on the open web. No one can take this from you.
If all this strikes you as absurd, this app is not for you. If it strikes you as the purest transaction you have seen all year — welcome.
Where the money goes: to one human being. All of it.
Your tribute travels by PayPal directly to the creator's own account — the recipient is named on your receipt, the same one every time, verifiable in yours.
No company in between. No fund. No foundation. No fees beyond PayPal's own. You will never be told it was "for servers." It wasn't. It was for him. That is the proof most apps cannot offer: total honesty about who profits.
One independent creator built and operates this alone, and answers at that same address. Ask him anything before you give. He will tell you the truth: he intends to keep it.
Choose the weight of your gesture.
Payments are unconditional gifts, sent in USD. You will receive nothing. That was the point.
Settled by card or PayPal — no account required — directly to the creator. The checkout shows his registered PayPal business name rather than this page's, which is normal: you are in the right place.
The Crown comes within reach. Generosity indistinguishable from power.
Give $10,000Name your own figure. The Ledger ranks. The Crown waits.
Ranked by tribute. Crowned by excess.
The Ledger records verified tributes only — lifetime totals, greatest first, each claim checked manually against funds actually received. The name at the top holds The Crown ♛ — held by the highest lifetime total, and takeable at any moment by a greater one. The Crown is never safe. That is what makes it worth wearing.
The first ten verified names in history will be inscribed permanently as The Founding Ten — a distinction no later fortune, however vast, can purchase.
Made a tribute? Claim your place in the Ledger — send the name or alias you wish inscribed, and your transaction reference. You decide whether the entry is public or private: a private tribute counts in full and appears as an unnamed line. Entries are verified against funds actually received.
From $1,000, a tribute may carry a line of your own words beside it. From $10,000, that line stands at the head of the Ledger — until a greater tribute takes it from you.
Generosity is more interesting with witnesses.
You have given. Now let it be known — and let a peer who can afford to beat it, try.
“I just placed $1,000 on the Ledger of LARGESS — money for nothing, given because I can. Your move.”
Five articles. Read them once. They do not bend.
A tribute is a gift. Unconditional, attached to nothing, expecting nothing. It is not a purchase, a donation to a cause, or an investment. It is largess.
You receive nothing. This was disclosed before you gave, in plain language, several times. It is, in fact, the entire point.
The Ledger honors verified tributes only. A transaction ID, checked against received funds. No screenshots, no stories.
A tribute is final in spirit. Nothing here can prevent a bank from reversing a payment, and nothing here pretends otherwise; a reversed tribute simply leaves the Ledger. Old money does not take money back.
Real money, adult hands. 18+. Gifts to a private individual. Not a charity, not tax-deductible, not refundable in spirit. The humor is free; the payments are not pretend.
Carry the Ledger. Watch the Crown change hands.
A companion application for Android: the Ledger, the Crown and the Covenant, in your pocket. It takes no payment and collects no data — tributes are made here, on this site.
Direct install (45 MB). Android will ask you to permit an install from this site — that is normal for an application distributed outside a store. Store listings are forthcoming.
Asked, occasionally. Answered, plainly.
What do I get?
Nothing. A rank in the Ledger, if you claim it. The Crown, if you earn it. But materially — nothing, and proudly so.
Is this a charity?
No. It is arguably the opposite. Charities promise impact. We promise, in writing, none whatsoever.
Is this a joke?
The joke is free. The payments are real, travel instantly, and go to one specific human being who will genuinely keep them.
Why would anyone do this?
Because they can. That is the filter, the flex, and the whole business model. Some buy watches that tell the same time as a phone. This is faster.
Can I get a refund?
Nothing here can stop a bank from reversing a payment, and nothing here pretends otherwise. A reversed tribute simply leaves the Ledger — the full terms are in the Covenant.
Is this legal?
Unconditional gifts between consenting adults are legal, ancient, and rarely this well documented. Everything here is disclosed before you pay.