Twenty-Four Hours a Day reviews
What users love and hate, from real reviews
An app version of the classic daily meditation book for sobriety in the AA program: one page per day of the year for morning reflection and prayer — for people in recovery who prize its simplicity and fidelity to the book, with its core tension being that the spiritual text leans too religious for part of the audience.
What users love
The anchor of a morning recovery ritual
For most, it's the first thing they open in the morning: the reading, meditation and prayer set the tone for the day and keep the focus on sobriety. People describe it as a way to start the day right and stay grounded.
This app is a great way to start my morning spiritual practice. Very convenient!
i start my day with 24 hrs a day. i love the spiritual meditation
best way to start my day absolutely love this app
The book always in your pocket, no need to carry the volume
The main reason people move from the paper book to the app is convenience: it's always on hand, on the go and while traveling, with no need to remember where the volume is. Long-time readers love having it at their fingertips.
This book is awesome. I use the app because I can't always bring book with me. Daily reading really helps me keep it in the day/moment and keep me grounded
I love being able to have this with me "24 hours a day" right on my phone and no extra book the carry!
Great for travel. No more forgetting to pack the book.
Fidelity to the paper book is the core value
Many have read the book for 20, 30, 40 years and trust the app precisely because it's word-for-word the original. To them it isn't "another app" but the same little black book that has kept them sober for decades.
Authentic to the book. Nice not to have to know what day it is.
34 years sober with a little help from this little black book.
Excellent app! Exactly like the book and always with me.
Opens straight to today's reading — no hunting
A strong design touch: the app opens to the right day and advances to the next on its own, so you don't need to know the date or hunt for the page. It removes the favorite excuse of "I couldn't find it / don't know what day it is."
it's helpful to have it open to the current day each time I open the app. definitely keeps me from using the excuse of I can't find it and I don't know what day it is.
Automatically goes to the next day, because 'some are sicker than others'.
A real positive every morning. Is this app updated enough?
The readings feel written for exactly your day
The emotional core of loyalty: people are repeatedly struck that the daily reading seems to address exactly what they're wrestling with. That feeling of "how did they know what I needed" turns the app from a utility into a personal companion.
How do these writers know exactly what I need to see, to read, and to ponder the minute I open each meditation? More than half the time it's a topic I'm dealing with in that 24 hour period.
This book seams to know what I need to hear and try to do each day.
The reading each day is always on time, a prescription from my Heavenly Doctor.
Configurable reminders and search help fit the reading into the day
Beyond the text, people value the functionality: you can set a push-notification time, swipe to neighboring days or pick from a calendar, and search the content. It helps them not miss the reading and return to it through the day.
I like that I can select a time for the push notification(s). I like that I can swipe to the next or previous day or select from a calendar.
Has reminder, if I'm really scattered. Works in Dark Mode.
Most important tool in my spiritual kit.
Easy to share the reading with friends in the program
A quiet strength: people text the daily reading to dozens of others in the program and to the people they sponsor, using the app to stay connected and help others. The catch is the share function adds extra fluff, so many copy-paste the text instead.
text this out to about 25 other folks in the program including men I work helps keep me centered
Only minor pan is sharing function adds a bunch of fluff, so I copy and past if I need to go there. It's well thought out and designed.
I pull it up not only in the morning to send to friends but during my day as needed. Highly recommend it !!
Applies to any addiction, not just alcohol
Though the book comes from AA, readers stress it works for NA, overeating, shopping and other addictions — even for those who never drank. That broadens the audience well beyond narrow alcohol recovery.
Perfect for the Alcoholic but also Perfect for Addiction from Over Eating to Shopping! This App helps keep me sober!!
The content is very beneficial for me even if I never got drunk in my life. But it is helpful in remaining sober from many other addictions which also cause disbalance of the life.
A great companion devotional to the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, which works for any addiction.
What users hate
The alarm clock icon won't leave the status bar
The most concrete product bug: on opening, the app plants a stuck alarm icon in the Android status bar. The only way to remove it is to force-stop the app, and as a result people can't tell whether they've actually set an alarm — one user lost hours with Verizon over it.
App puts a alarm notification on my phone. When i click app info and force stop the alarm icon disappears.
Great app except the alarm clock icon pops up when opened. Cost me hours with Verizon.
It has a bug in that it will keep the alarm icon always showing in the Android status bar at the top of the Android screen. The only way to remove this annoying icon is to force a stop on the app.
No highlighting or note-taking
The top feature request: people paid for the app as they would a book and want to highlight important lines and add notes to dates, but right now they can only dump the whole reading into favorites. Several also ask for an audio option.
it would be nice if I could highlight or c&p what's important to me rather than just adding the whole reading to the favorites section.
I love having this available on my phone but I really wish it had a highlighting and notes function. That would make it amazing.
It would be so cool if I could add notes to dates and highlight parts that touch my heart.
Too religious for part of the non-believing audience
The content leans heavily on God and the Bible, and some users — agnostics or those who don't see AA as the only answer — note it gets a little too churchy at times. It's not a bug but a worldview mismatch that lowers the rating for those who connect only with the meditative side.
Heavily religious. I'm agnostic. I also hold that AA is not the end all solution. AA provides a piece to the puzzle.
good overall but can get a little "churchy" at times. I use it almost daily as my morning meditation routine.
Very helpful even though I use it intermitently, and not daily. Very helpful even though loaded with biblical principles.
Went from free to paid without warning
A sore point for some: what was free now costs money, and after switching phones people have to pay for the download again. Some are angry at making money off recovery, others reluctantly accept it while noting the paid version used to have no ads.
It was free now it's $8....smh sad. making money on reco very is where it's at
last time I paid for this I didn't have advertisement
just a few weeks ago I lost my phone, got a new one and had to pay for the download of the app, not very cool but in today's world I need to remember where I came from and be grateful that it doesn't cost more.