Sober Time - Sobriety Counter reviews
What users love and hate · 500 reviews analyzed · ★ 4.5
A free sobriety counter with journaling and daily quotes that many users genuinely love for visualizing their clean time, but which has drowned itself in full-screen ads on nearly every action.
What users love
A precise clean-time counter that motivates you to keep going
The core value is seeing your exact accumulated clean time — down to the seconds, minutes, and even heartbeats. In moments of craving, users open the app, look at their progress, and find the strength not to relapse.
so easy to use, it runs along in the background and when I feel like a drink I look at the progress I've made and it motivates me to keep going
it makes me proud every single day that I can get on here and see how much actual sober time that I have it goes all the way down to the second!
love how I can count the heartbeats for my recovery time!!
Journaling with daily prompts is an unexpectedly valuable tool for reflection
Many come for the timer but stay for the journal: daily prompts and questions push you to reflect on your addiction and yourself. Even users who didn't expect to love this feature end up praising it.
I like the counter and milestones which is pretty standard for these apps but I'm liking the journaling feature more than I thought. it's really helped me reflect
The journal prompts and challenges really bring insight and resources to put towards your sobriety journey. At least for me it has helped.
daily journals and inspirational quotes in addition to tracking your sober date it a wonderful tool for self reflection.
Flexible customization: backgrounds, fonts, colors and date format
The app lets you change the background, font, color scheme, and date display format — down to the second. This personalization makes the counter feel like your own and delights users even amid the ad complaints.
The app itself is pretty cool, being able to change the background and font and color and stuff, but the ads are awful
I like the template and choices of fonts, color scheme and format of date, down to the second!
Very simple yet capable of personalizing your display, backgrounds, & goals to strive for in your sobriety charting as you continue your journey through sobriety.
Tracks any addiction, not just alcohol
Users track all kinds of things here: alcohol, drugs, smoking, porn, nail-biting, self-harm. The ability to keep multiple counters and track "any achievement" makes the app a universal recovery tool.
i needed help with a porn addiction and this app helped a lot
quitting nail biting right now! hit my first milestone and I'm happy 🥹
In two days, I'll be two years clean and sober from weed, meth, and alcohol... This app has been a very useful tool for keeping track of my journey so far...
Your time survives even an uninstall and reinstall
A pleasant surprise for many: after reinstalling, the app keeps counting accumulated time from where it left off. People return years later to find the counter didn't reset — which builds trust.
I installed this app yrs ago when I first got clean, had to clean room on phone so I uninstalled it. Just reinstalled it and it has still been counting my time. Started @ 4 yrs. Now have 7.85 yrs
its my 2nd time downloading since other apps kept feeding me "BS & Ads"
I love this app it helps me keep track of my sover day's 💖
An in-app community makes you feel you're not alone
Beyond the counter there's a chat and recovery community where people share the same struggle. For some users, this connection with others is exactly what makes the app truly valuable.
you can always go into the community center, and see that you're not the only one going through something, you can connect with people, which makes this app even better.
It keeps my clean time available for me to see everytime i open the app. and it has so many more features. like daily readings and an open chat room for people in recovery sharing my same struggles
good app can customize things add pics there is a community for support
What users hate
An ad after every screen makes the app unusable
Full-screen ads pop up after literally every tap and screen transition. Some users can't even finish the initial setup because the ads won't close — they have to kill the entire app just to advance to the next page.
So many ads I can't even get it set up. Literally an ad after every single screen and there's not even a way to close them. I have to close the ENTIRE AP to get past the ad and get to the next page.
Ads every other screen. Very helpful when trying to improve yourself in our era of end-stage capitalism.
horrible, ads overtime you switch pages!!!
Ads for gambling, drinking games and alcohol inside a sobriety app
It's especially cynical that a sobriety tracker serves ads for the very things people are quitting: games with cocktails, "addictive" video games, and fake "your phone has a virus" banners. For people in recovery this isn't just annoying — it's a trigger.
why would a sober tracker have an add for a game with cocktails 😡😤😡😤
I downloaded this tracker to help me get clean and it's literally showing me ads of what I'm trying to get clean from...
It has major ads for "addictive" video games that it forces you to view. This seems to be wildly in bad taste.
A subscription instead of a one-time fee feels wrong for such a simple app
Users find a monthly/yearly subscription disproportionate for a counter you could essentially keep in a notes app. Many would happily pay a couple dollars once to remove ads forever, but that option doesn't exist — and it reads as greed.
Used to be great but the ads basically break the app and the subscription fees are criminal for such a simple app that should be a single £2 for life
Seriously paying for documenting something i can do even in a basic notes app is ridiculous 👍
It's a great app and it has great features, but the adds are irritating and the monthly subscription is a bit much.
Recycled quotes get stale, and some sound insulting
The daily motivational quotes are a favorite feature for many, but they loop on a small set and get stale fast. Worse, some quotes read like a reproach to someone in recovery (calling them a "coward"), which demoralizes instead of supporting.
You continue to recycle the same quotes which is not motivation. Show us your A Game. I don't check in daily because there's nothing exciting going on.
"our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we make up our minds to walk boldly through them." insinuating somebody recovering is a coward or cowering does not help recovery.
the daily motivational prompts and end of day journal prompts get old really fast. frankly the morning ones aren't that good and the journal ones straight up make me feel bad about myself daily.
Confusing navigation: easy to enter a section, hard to get back out
Beyond the ads, the app's structure itself frustrates: people can't always reach the chat, and once inside they can't get back out. Some call the app "over-engineered" for something as simple as a counter.
this app is extremely frustrating to try to navigate. It doesn't let me get to the chat at times, and if. you happen to get there, you can't get back out.
such a frustrating over engineered app that is soo annoying it probably makes people drink.
Not daily information. Hard to navigate.
Premium doesn't remove ads and data loss wipes progress
The most painful issue: people pay for premium and the ads remain while the widget breaks. And some find the app wipes their tracking entirely — a catastrophe for anyone who logged years of clean time here.
Premium is waste of money. Paid for premium and still get ads. Widget is difficult to customize and when you try to use it it's just a transparent box with and you can't see the days or anything. Going to demand my money back.
Thing Deleted My Tracking This piece of garbage is just a vehicle for ads and the stupid thing deleted my tracking entirely.
A once great app that turned into a data harvesting, enshitified mess. Uninstalled after two years of use.