Review score: 82 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 15,992 ratings
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A minimalist free tracker with multiple simultaneous counters, plus savings calculators for money and calories. No ads, no forced notifications, no subscriptions. People use it for years and come back after a relapse specifically for this.
Praised
Multiple independent clocks for different habits at the same time (quit drinking in January, quit smoking in May) is a rare mechanic that users call the key feature.
Complaints
A bug with deleting and resetting clocks: sometimes the only way to reset a counter is to delete the entire app. For people after a relapse who need to start over quickly, that is a real barrier.
Best for: People in long-term recovery who need a reliable, quiet counter without subscriptions, ads, or push notifications. Especially those working on multiple habits at once.
Review score: 74 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 57,218 ratings
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One of the best trackers for people quitting smoking: a health recovery timeline with milestones, a money-saved calculator, a journal, and an AI assistant called Cora. Generous free tier. Weaker for vaping.
Praised
A detailed health recovery timeline showing exactly when each body system bounces back, paired with a clear money calculator. Users return to this screen years later.
Complaints
Cora (AI chat) is unreliable: it disappears for weeks, and when it comes back, responses feel flat. There is no proper relapse flow. If you log a cigarette, the counter does not restart naturally.
Best for: Long-time smokers who need visible progress and concrete numbers, money saved and health regained, as motivation.
Review score: 72 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.9★ · 12,081 ratings
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A toolkit for the AA program with a journal, step-by-step inventory, gratitude list, and daily reflections. Users with many years of sobriety call it their morning ritual. Downside: authentication breaks periodically, wiping accumulated entries.
Praised
All 12 steps in one place. You can work through inventory, keep a gratitude list, and send it to your sponsor directly from the app. People with 8 to 15 years of sobriety write that they use it every day.
Complaints
Authentication breaks and erases years of entries. Font size cannot be adjusted after an update. No way to reach the developer. Personal prayers cannot be added.
Best for: AA and Al-Anon members who want a digital companion for the steps with a daily practice built in.
Rank 4. Review score: 63 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 18,329 ratings
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A versatile quit-habit tracker built around the "days since" frame. Works for any habit: alcohol, smoking, sugar, anything. Clean design, easy to set up. The features that make it genuinely useful, the widget, stats, and reminders, are behind a subscription.
Praised: A live counter in seconds, minutes, and days on the widget gives a sense of time moving forward continuously, not just another day on a calendar.
Complaints: The counter occasionally loses accuracy by showing one day less than it should. For people for whom every single day matters, that is an emotionally painful bug.
Best for: People quitting any habit who prefer a minimalist tool with no programs or communities attached.
Rank 5. Review score: 63 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 7,857 ratings
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A sobriety support app focused on community: a story feed, peer support, a days tracker, and a sobriety date. It works like a social network for people in recovery, with veterans of 36-plus years alongside newcomers. Technical issues on iOS hurt reliability.
Praised: A live community where you can get support even after a relapse. People with many years of sobriety stick around and help new members. The sense that you are not alone.
Complaints: The "like before you post" mechanic does not generate real feedback. Posts go into a void. iOS bugs. No home screen widget showing your sobriety date.
Best for: People recovering from any addiction who care more about a live community and real stories than tools and statistics.
Rank 6. Review score: 63 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 2,271 ratings
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A mindful drinking tracker with daily SMS check-ins that lower the barrier to entry: no need to open an app, just reply to a text. Framing alcohol like a budget you control helped some users cut consumption by 60 to 90 percent.
Praised: SMS-based tracking makes the daily check-in nearly effortless. Users who are not aiming for total abstinence appreciate the absence of pressure toward sobriety: the app helps you manage, not prohibit.
Complaints: After unsubscribing, SMS messages continue across multiple channels and users cannot stop them. Automated messages start promoting medication-assisted treatment to paying subscribers without prior notice.
Best for: People who want to control their drinking without quitting entirely and who appreciate a low-friction daily check-in ritual.
Rank 7. Review score: 62 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.9★ · 28,381 ratings
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A digital edition of the Hazelden classic "Twenty-Four Hours a Day" with daily meditations for people in AA-style programs. This is a specialized tool, not a universal sobriety tracker. The audience it fits values it very highly.
Praised: A daily morning reading ritual with the ability to send the text to a sponsor or friend directly from the app. Built-in accountability without a social network.
Complaints: The religious tone (Christian references to God) puts off atheists and agnostics who also participate in AA programs through an alternative understanding of a higher power.
Best for: AA and similar 12-step program members, especially those already familiar with the book in print.
Rank 8. Review score: 61 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.7★ · 2,781 ratings
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A gamified quit-smoking tracker with an achievement system and milestones that make it feel like a game against nicotine. The core mechanic: unlocking rewards for every cigarette not smoked keeps users engaged for months.
Praised: The achievement system works as a feedback loop. Users look forward to unlocking the next goal and say they come back in hard moments to check their progress. Several people quit on their first try after years of failed attempts.
Complaints: Achievements do not account for gradual reduction: one cigarette while cutting back resets the counter. After the first month, milestones thin out, and people with longer streaks run out of motivating events.
Best for: People quitting smoking cold turkey who need game-like reinforcement every few days, especially in the first three months.
Rank 9. Review score: 60 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.7★ · 13,497 ratings
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One of the oldest quit-smoking trackers: 82 health-recovery achievements, a cigarette and money counter, and a community chat. The achievement system is a strong mechanic, but the inability to easily reset a relapse date makes the app frustrating when a slip happens.
Praised: 82 staged achievements reflecting real physiological changes when quitting smoking gives a sense of progress even when cravings are strong.
Complaints: After a relapse, there is no way to reset the start date without recreating your account. The app does not treat relapse as a normal part of recovery and punishes it with a loss of history.
Best for: Smokers who care about gamification through achievements and want to compare progress with others in the community chat.
Rank 10. Review score: 60 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.9★ · 4,267 ratings
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An alcohol quit tracker with a day-by-day health recovery display covering liver, heart, and skin, plus a journal, community, and a "reduce rather than quit" option. A sibling app to Quit Vaping from the same developer. Its strength is an honest tracker with no moralizing, accessible without a subscription for core features.
Praised: A specific day-by-day health recovery scale that is concrete and motivating. The option to reduce rather than quit outright is rare in this category. A live counter down to the second. A community with genuine peer support.
Complaints: Notifications can themselves become triggers for cravings. No widget, unlike Quit Vaping. Cannot add a friend using a button. Support is unreachable: the email does not work. No entry point for people who still drink and are just starting to think about quitting.
Best for: People who have decided to quit or cut back on alcohol and want concrete data about how the body recovers, not abstract advice.
Rank 11. Review score: 58 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.9★ · 181,352 ratings
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The largest tracker in the space with a live community and journal. The core counter and support feed work, but a wave of bans has undermined the key value proposition: the community itself. Part of the audience, including teenagers and self-harm, goes beyond the traditional sobriety niche.
Praised: An asynchronous community feed where people share progress and receive real responses. The counter lets you enter a past date to mark when your journey actually began.
Complaints: The community moderation algorithm reportedly bans people arbitrarily, destroying the connections that keep people in the app.
Best for: People in the early stages of quitting any habit (alcohol, smoking, self-harm, others) who need a live support feed, not just numbers on a screen.
Rank 12. Review score: 57 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.9★ · 5,077 ratings
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A sobriety tracker with an AI chatbot called Sam, a community, daily check-ins, and resources. The AI assistant is the standout feature: users say it helps break out of looping thoughts and reframe the moment. A paywall on entry blocks access to tools from the start.
Praised: An AI chatbot for working through cravings and circular thinking at any hour. Sunflower symbolism as an encouragement mechanic in the community. Daily progress reminders, including right after a relapse.
Complaints: No free entry. Either a paywall or a forced trial subscription greets you immediately. The sobriety start date cannot be set manually on some devices. One review suggests the AI bot may have been listening to real nearby conversations. That is a serious reputational concern that warrants scrutiny.
Best for: People in early recovery who need 24/7 support and an in-the-moment tool for working through cravings and anxiety.
Rank 13. Review score: 55 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 14,183 ratings
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A digital archive of AA materials: the Big Book, 12-step prayers, meditations. The sobriety counter exists but is secondary. Technical quality is inconsistent: scrolling, search, and login break periodically.
Praised: Offline access to the full text of the Big Book and 12-step prayers. For people in the program, this replaces a physical book that is not always convenient to carry.
Complaints: Page numbering does not match the print edition, which is critical for working with a sponsor on specific pages. AA members refer to page numbers directly.
Best for: AA program members who need digital access to the literature, not a tracker or motivational mechanics.
Rank 14. Review score: 55 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.9★ · 11,524 ratings
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A sobriety counter tracking body recovery over time (lungs, heart, brain), a support community, and milestone markers. It genuinely helps people stay on track, with stories of 360 to 450 days without nicotine. Fake community accounts and aggressive monetization are real problems.
Praised: Body recovery visualized by day with concrete data on what is happening to your lungs and heart. Milestones as anchors during hard moments. An active live community with mutual support.
Complaints: Fake profiles in the community undermine trust. The craving tracker incorrectly logs relapses and resets the counter. Apple Watch sync does not work. Notification bell is broken.
Best for: People quitting vaping who want concrete health recovery data and a live community for mutual support.
Rank 15. Review score: 55 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.5★ · 1,930 ratings
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A simple quit-smoking tracker focused on physiological stats: how the body recovers hour by hour and day by day without cigarettes. One user quit after 30 years and three packs a day. A two-year streak confirms its long-term value.
Praised: Body recovery stats and progress visualization create concrete forward momentum instead of just a feeling of loss. Several users return years later specifically for this progress view.
Complaints: You cannot set a quit date in advance to prepare, and you cannot log a slip without resetting all progress. Those who are cutting back gradually will find the app does not fit from day one.
Best for: People quitting smoking cold turkey who need a daily reminder of what is happening in their body right now.
Rank 16. Review score: 52 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.7★ · 41,966 ratings
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An educational program for cutting back on alcohol using neuroscience, live meetings, and coaching. Real value exists, but navigation is overloaded, notifications are intrusive, and billing incidents (a subscription that sneaks up, hard-to-cancel flows) erode trust.
Praised: A library of content explaining how the brain works with alcohol dependence, plus live club meetings for people who want to understand the mechanism rather than just count days.
Complaints: Onboarding walks the user through deep personal questions, then responds with a templated bot. The gap between expecting a personal response and getting a script is jarring for a vulnerable audience.
Best for: People who want to drink less (not zero), are willing to commit to a structured curriculum, and value live group sessions.
Rank 17. Review score: 52 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.9★ · 2,100 ratings
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A companion app to Annie Grace's methodology: a cognitive approach to changing your relationship with alcohol through video, community, and coaching. Works as a gateway into the book and podcast ecosystem, creating a sense of movement and community support.
Praised: Users already familiar with the book describe shifts in their beliefs about themselves, not just about alcohol. Coaches and community members provide real human contact on the path to sobriety.
Complaints: New users are placed in a queue for manual account approval. That is a critical barrier for someone reaching out for help right now. Login is unstable and many people cannot get in after registering.
Best for: Those who have already read Annie Grace or are looking for a cognitive (not spiritual) approach to changing their relationship with alcohol.
Rank 18. Review score: 51 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 7,635 ratings
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A sobriety tracker with daily motivational messages, a meeting finder, a money-saved counter, and a thoughts-feelings-behavior journal. It helped people reach three years sober. Main problem: instability. Blank screen on launch, data loss, broken calendar.
Praised: Daily motivational messages on varied themes. A money-saved tracker. A thoughts-feelings-behavior format as a reflection tool. Built-in AA meeting search.
Complaints: The app fails to load after iOS updates. Data disappears and people lose their counter after 70 days. The calendar is broken. The counter shows days only, not months. A religious slant puts off some users.
Best for: People in recovery who want a simple daily ritual with a tracker and positive reminders, without a community feed.
Rank 19. Review score: 48 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 39,255 ratings
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A minimalist sobriety counter with widgets, daily quotes, and milestone medals. It works well, but gambling ads shown inside the app to people dealing with addiction is a serious ethical problem that undermines the product.
Praised: Milestone medals and a home screen widget. People value a clear, always-visible reminder of their progress without having to open the app.
Complaints: The ad inventory includes gambling ads shown to users who are also struggling with gambling addiction. This is not just annoying. For part of the audience it is a direct trigger.
Best for: People who want a simple day counter with no extra features and are willing to pay to remove ads.
Rank 20. Review score: 44 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.6★ · 7,818 ratings
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A CBT-based alcohol consumption tracker with support groups, a journal, and educational courses on the mechanics of addiction. The approach works: users say they understood for the first time why they drink. But the product falls short technically. Not optimized for modern iPhones, streak resets on missed days, and the counter is not cumulative.
Praised: Educational courses on the reasons and mechanisms behind drinking provide real understanding. Support groups without requiring Facebook. A personal approach with calorie and money tracking.
Complaints: Not adapted for notch iPhones: buttons in corners are unreachable. The streak resets if you do not open the app. The counter shows data for a period rather than cumulatively. Content is oriented toward heavy alcohol dependence, not suitable for people who simply want to drink less.
Best for: People who want to understand the reasons behind their drinking and are willing to commit to a structured program with group support.
Rank 21. Review score: 44 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 3,240 ratings
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A digital prayer book and 12-step reference that works as quick access to texts, prayers, and audio at a meeting or alone. The mechanic is valuable, but aggressive ads undermine trust at exactly the moment when someone is struggling.
Praised: Everything in one place: steps, prayers, daily reflections, and recordings. Convenient for a meeting leader or sponsor who needs to find a specific text quickly. Several users write directly that the app helped them while in a rehabilitation center.
Complaints: Ads show up even for users who paid to remove them. Several reviews flag political ads inside an AA tool, which breaks trust in the brand and the values of the program.
Best for: 12-step program members and their sponsors who need a pocket reference at meetings and on the go.
Rank 22. Review score: 41 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 1,793 ratings
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An audio library of AA speaker recordings for listening while traveling or when live meetings are not available. Core value: replaces a stack of AA literature on the road and gives access to real people's experiences during hard moments.
Praised: Users with long sobriety value listening to speaker recordings in the background when they cannot make it to a meeting. The Joe and Charlie Big Book series is mentioned as especially valuable content.
Complaints: No new content has been added for months. After a few months of subscribing, everything has already been heard. Some audio does not load even with an active subscription.
Best for: AA members who travel frequently or live somewhere without enough in-person meetings.
Rank 23. Review score: 38 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.9★ · 10,549 ratings
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The Phoenix sobriety community platform relaunched under the NewForm brand. Offers in-person and online events, group workouts, and virtual meetings. After a redesign in March 2025, the app effectively does not work: infinite loading, inability to log in, lost content. The real value is the Phoenix organization itself, not the interface.
Praised: The Phoenix community with real people who genuinely help. Online meetings for those who cannot leave home, such as those in a treatment facility. Wide event coverage in major cities.
Complaints: The NewForm redesign broke basic functionality. Cannot log in, content does not load, the join button for online meetings has disappeared. Outside major cities, virtual content is limited. Notifications cannot be turned off inside the app.
Best for: People in recovery who live near cities where Phoenix is active and value an in-person community and physical activity.
Rank 24. Review score: 35 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.7★ · 7,124 ratings
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A sober social network with a feed, a tracker, a dating section for people in recovery, and a marketplace. The concept is interesting but execution is weak: the dating section is full of scammers, notifications are unmanageable, and the user base outside major cities is thin.
Praised: The idea of a network for sober people only, with the ability to find connections and events. Real-time support from live community members. The feed as a public recovery journal.
Complaints: The dating section is overrun with scammers. Up to 93 notifications a day with no granular control. Marketplace and investment pitches in the feed get in the way. Account bans for anonymous avatars are a problem for people who value privacy around addiction. Technical crashes.
Best for: People in recovery in major cities who want a social network built specifically for sober people, not just a tracker.
Rank 25. Review score: 35 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.3★ · 2,502 ratings
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A puff counter for vaping with hourly usage analytics, allowing planned dose reduction. The core gradual-reduction mechanic genuinely worked for long-term users. A subscription priced at ten dollars per week triggers sharp backlash from an audience that is already spending on vaping.
Praised: A visual hourly consumption chart helped several users recognize their patterns and steadily cut their puff count over seven months. Simple interface: open, tap. A privacy policy with no third-party data sharing.
Complaints: After an update, the key hourly chart screen disappeared. That was the most valued feature. There is no home screen widget even though logging a puff requires opening the app in real time.
Best for: People who want to quit vaping gradually through mindful tracking rather than going cold turkey and are willing to pay for a subscription.
Rank 26. Review score: 29 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 3,533 ratings
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An audio companion to the AA Big Book with meeting recordings, daily reflections, and meditations. Useful for people who have difficulty reading or who commute long distances. Technical execution is weak: does not save your place in a recording, outdated interface, the narrator sometimes mispronounces words. Most content is behind a purchase.
Praised: The Big Book in audio format for people who find reading difficult. Daily reflections and meditations in one place. Convenient on the road.
Complaints: Does not remember your place in a recording. You start over every time. Interface not adapted for large iPhone screens. Recording quality is low, narrator makes mistakes that change the meaning. Inspirational quotes do not change daily. Content sections require purchase to unlock.
Best for: AA members who find it easier to listen than read and do not have time for the physical book.
Rank 27. Review score: 29 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.1★ · 1,693 ratings
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A full-featured sobriety counter with a journal, quotes, an AI assistant, and support for tracking multiple addictions at once. Some users with 10-plus years of sobriety say they have used it the entire time. Right now, the app fails to open for a large portion of the audience.
Praised: The ability to run several counters for different addictions simultaneously and receive daily quotes. For those where it works, opening the app has become a daily ritual.
Complaints: For many users, the app stopped opening or silently reset years of accumulated data. The transition from a free plan to a paid one was made forcibly, and old counters disappeared.
Best for: People who want to track multiple addictions or habits in parallel and value daily affirmations.
Rank 28. Review score: 28 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.7★ · 2,813 ratings
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A sobriety counter with health visualizations and milestones that was a powerful motivator in the early days of quitting. Several users write about years without alcohol thanks to the app. Today, functionality is blocked by unskippable ads.
Praised: Visual presentation of day-by-day health improvement drove motivation in the early stages. One user says: after 35 years of heavy drinking, this data kept him going through his first year.
Complaints: Ads cannot be closed with a button and launch the next ad when they end, blocking navigation between tabs. Gambling ads appear inside an app for people dealing with addiction.
Best for: People in the early stages of quitting alcohol who need daily numeric confirmation that they are making progress.
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