Lists move. Memory lies.
In one good conversation your ranking can flip over and over. By the end you half-remember who was #2 when you started, and nobody wrote the case down.
The debate never ends. Now it has a home.
You know the conversation. Barbershop. Group chat. Comments under a highlight reel. Your Top 5 changes three times before anyone leaves, and tomorrow the only record is your memory or a half-finished note on your phone. Top Five locks five ranks, makes you defend each pick, and turns it into a share card built for the next round.
Why this exists
Your list changes mid-conversation. The record almost never keeps up.
Someone names a sleeper pick. You bump a favorite down. You walk something back after coffee. That is normal. What is not normal is trying to hold every version of your Top 5 in your head, or in Notes that never get opened again.
Notes are not a product
At best you jot a name and a half sentence on your phone. It is scattered, private, and useless when the next friend wants to argue the same night.
Chats and boards still fail you
Threads scroll past. Tier lists stay mute. Nothing forces five slots, a defense for each, or a card other people can jump into.
Top Five is built for ranks that change and ideas that need receipts. Forced ranking plus defense. Every version of your list can hold up under pressure.
How it works
Three moves. Then the card does the talking.
01
Rank five
Build a Top 5 in a fixed category. Only five slots. When the board is full, promoting someone means someone else gets cut. That tradeoff is the game.
02
Make your case
Your Take is the argument, not a sticky note. Write why each entry sits where it sits. When ranks flip, history keeps the receipt.
03
Share the argument
Export a card built to start a fight offline. The share is the product. Not a dump of screens from the app.
#5
Visible. Contested.
The floor of a public fight
#4
Visible. Contested.
Still on the board for the room to argue
#3
Visible. Last fully named.
On a FOMO card, this is as far as the eye usually goes
#2
Locked on the card
Blurred so people come find you for the top
#1
Locked on the card
The hill you die on stays off the image until they are in
Five categories
The board is fixed on purpose.
Five launch categories. Same count as the mark. Adding a sixth is a brand decision, not a settings toggle.
Music
Film
Food
Sports
Petty Takes
Who it's for
If you already live for these debates, you're home.
For
- GOAT debates that never end
- NBA, film canon, food hills worth dying on
- People who screenshot to win arguments
- The group chat that wants a record
Not for
- Wellness journals or habit streak apps
- Productivity trackers with a “favorites” coat of paint
- Another infinite social feed
- Generic tier-list boards with no voice
Meet me on Top Five.
In active iOS development from Cherrywig Studio. Want to talk about the product? Reach out.