Sober Tracker: count what you're gaining
Most sobriety apps police you. Sober Tracker was built on the opposite bet — that a quit survives on what you can see growing: days, money, hours, milestones, a garden. The tracking core is free forever, works offline, and never asks for an account.
What it's like to use
Four questions, then your plan
The app opens by asking why you want to quit, how often and when you drink, and what triggers you — then builds a personalised alcohol-free plan with a quit date. Two minutes of honesty, and the app knows what kind of quit yours is.
The home screen is a scoreboard
Sober days in years, months and days; money saved in your currency; hours reclaimed; drinks not had — all updating live, all on one screen and in a home-screen widget. The number only goes up, and it's quietly brutal about protecting itself.
The bad days have a toolkit
One tap opens the ten-minute craving toolkit: guided breathing, distraction, a walk, water, your written reason, contact someone — then a 1–10 rating that turns each survived urge into pattern data instead of a scar.
What it gives you over time
The app's arc roughly mirrors a quit's arc.
Day 1
A counter at zero, a reason written, and the strangest feeling that something has already shifted — because it has. Day one is a decision, and the app makes it visible.
Week 1
Milestones land early and often — 24 hours, 3 days, 1 week — because early is when celebration matters. The cravings log starts filling in with hours and triggers.
Month 1–3
The money counter crosses into four figures for many people, the garden has grown through several seasons, and the log's first clear pattern usually appears: a time, not an occasion.
Year 1
365 days, a wall of achievements, a recovery timeline you lived through, and a journal that remembers who you were at day one. The app becomes a receipt for the whole year.
Everything in the free tier
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The counters
Sober days with milestones from 1 day to 1 year+, money saved from your own drink cost, hours reclaimed, and drinks not had. On the home screen and in a widget — free, forever.
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The cravings log
Trigger tracking with every urge, the ten-minute toolkit for the live ones, and 1–10 ratings that build into an early-warning system for your danger hours.
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The journal and the garden
A private journal with PIN lock and mood check-ins, unlimited. Plus the garden that grows with your streak — a quiet, daily reason not to reset the weather.
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Motivation and goals
Daily motivation, personal goals, 30+ achievements, and an anonymous optional leaderboard if you want company. Fully usable — fully — without it.
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Restart without erasure
If you slip: reset the counter, keep the history, earn the Phoenix badge. The app treats a relapse as a chapter, not a cancellation — which is also, not coincidentally, how people who stay sober treat it.
Free means free
Everything above costs nothing and needs no account, no email, no sign-up — the app works fully offline and keeps your data on the device. One optional premium exists, only for deeper reflection: pattern insights and exportable PDF reports. Tracking is never the paywall.
Where to get it
Sober Tracker is on the App Store and Google Play, rated 4.8 out of 5 from 250 reviews across both stores. The full interface speaks 13 languages.
- iOS: App Store — free download
- Android: Google Play — free download
- 13 languages in the app interface
- Data stays on your device
Questions people ask about Sober Tracker
Is it really free?
The tracking core — counter, money, time, drinks, cravings log, toolkit, journal, milestones, garden — is free forever with no account. One optional premium covers pattern insights and PDF reports for people who want deeper reflection. Nothing you need is behind it.
What happens to my data?
It stays on your device. No account, no cloud backup, no email required — the app works entirely offline by design. Analytics, when enabled, is anonymous.
Can I track more than one habit?
Sober Tracker is built specifically for alcohol — the recovery timeline, the craving tools, the milestones all assume a quit-drinking journey. That focus is deliberate; general habit apps don't carry the health timeline or the craving science.
What if I relapse?
Reset the counter the same day, keep your full history, and earn the Phoenix badge for the comeback. The journal and logs carry over, so every attempt teaches the next one. Shame-free restarts are a design principle, not an afterthought.
Sober Tracker is a self-tracking companion, not a medical device, and does not provide medical advice. If you may be physically dependent on alcohol, talk to a doctor before changing your drinking.
Day one starts whenever you're ready.
Free to download. No account. Your data stays on your phone.
