About Skive
The checkout without the consequence.
Skive is a set of purchase-experience simulators. It gives you the oddly satisfying part of spending — browsing, choosing, building the basket, imagining the version of you who says yes — and removes the part where your money leaves.
Why this exists
A lot of online shopping pleasure happens before ownership: scrolling menus, comparing stays, choosing seats, speccing paint, reading the reviews, watching the total climb. The purchase is often the least interesting bit. It is also the expensive bit.
Skive turns that observation into a small free toy. It is not a budgeting app, a marketplace or a lecture about discipline. It is a place to scratch the spending itch without making a real transaction.
How it works
Every experience follows the same pattern: the familiar build-up, then a clean stop before payment.
Step 1
Choose the itch
Takeaway, tickets, property, holidays, luxury shopping or a supercar spec. Each simulator is built around a familiar spending mood.
Step 2
Do the fun bit
Browse, compare, customise, add extras, queue, book, view or configure. Skive keeps the part where your brain gets to play.
Step 3
Stop before the spend
When the real world would ask for payment, Skive stops. The total is added to Your Savings on your device, and no money moves.
The promise
It feels like shopping because it stops being shopping.
Nothing here is for sale.
No account is needed.
No card details are requested.
Your savings stay in your browser.
What Skive is not
It is not a shop. The restaurants, properties, products, cars, destinations and acts are invented for the simulators. You cannot buy, book or reserve anything here.
It is not financial advice. The totals are for the joke and the little moment of relief when you do not pay them. Your Savings is a local counter, not a financial record.
It is a reminder that wanting the treat and buying the treat are two different things. Skive keeps the first one.
Ready to almost buy something?
Pick an experience, take it all the way to checkout, then walk away with the total still yours.