Comparison

Sober Time vs StarDay

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sober Time

Track multiple addictions, set personal goals, and find motivation with daily messages. Connect with a supportive community forum and monitor your progress, including money saved. Personalize your experience with custom backgrounds and themes.

Highlights
  • Track multiple addictions
  • Set and customize goals
  • Daily motivational messages
  • Sober community forum
  • Personalize with backgrounds/icons
  • Track money saved
  • Relapse tracking with notes
Features
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Sober Time helps you track your addictions, stay motivated, and interact with others in recovery. Here's what you can do with Sober Time: - Track as many addictions as you want - Built-in Goals with the option to add your own - Daily motivational messages - Vibrant sober community forum - Personalize your addictions with beautiful backgrounds and icons - Tons of timer options - Track your relapses and add notes to them - See how much money you've saved - Share your progress - Style your app with 15+ color themes Accurate and precise Sobriety Tracker Track the time you've been clean down to the second. The tracker updates in real time and you can see the seconds, minutes, hours and days tick by. With over 10 unique display modes - from total days to breaths - pick one that shows what's important to you. Staying motivated and inspired Sober Time helps you stay motivated and inspired by showing daily inspirational messages and setting realistic, achievable goals for you. You can further customize your goals by editing them or even creating your own. Each goal will be tracked in the app and you'll receive a notification when you've reached them. Our community Sober Time has a dedicated community forum where you can read or discuss anything related to sobriety. Users discuss their daily struggle with addiction, motivation, milestones, and more. You can stay anonymous and browse the forum without registering an account. Soak up the knowledge until you're ready to share your story. Personalized experience Each addiction that you track with Sober Time can be individually personalized. Choose from one of the scenic nature backgrounds or upload your own. Set up your own heading and change the counter to show the way you like it. Varied display modes, like heartbeats or total seconds, give you complete freedom of expression. This app is subject to Apple's standard end user license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

StarDay

Easily track important life events with unlimited countdowns. Customize widgets to visualize your progress and forget about intrusive advertisements. This app helps you stay on top of your milestones.

Highlights
  • Unlimited countdowns
  • Customizable widgets
  • Streak tracking
  • Ad-free experience
  • Event tracking
Features
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Do you need to track some important events in your life? Try our new app. Add unlimited countdowns, customize widgets, forget about noisy ads. Terms of use: https://about-me.app/terms_of_use Privacy policy: https://about-me.app/privacy_policy

Screenshots

Sober Time4 screens
StarDay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StarDay at none against Sober Time's 5. StarDay also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Sober Time's advantage is ratings volume (43K vs 578) and review sentiment (85% vs 68%). On price, rating, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sober Time sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. StarDay asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Sober Time against 4.8 for StarDay. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sober Time has 43K ratings behind it against 578, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Sober Time's written reviews are positive against 68% of StarDay's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sober Time ships an update every 2 weeks, StarDay weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Sober Time versus StarDay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSober TimeStarDay
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (43K ratings) — better4.8 (578 ratings)
Positive reviews84.9% of reviews — better68.0% of reviews
Number of ratings43K — better578
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB50 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperSociosoftware LLC (Apps)AboutMe Apps, Inc.

Customer experience

Sober Time

All ratings43,215 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews1,081 reviews
Positive84.9%
Neutral4.3%
Negative10.8%

StarDay

All ratings576 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral4.0%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive68.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative16.0%

User reviews

Sober Time

From 43K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💪 Helps track sobriety progress
  • 📊 Provides detailed statistics and milestones
  • 🙏 Offers motivational quotes and support
  • 💰 Tracks money saved from not using
  • 🤝 Connects with a supportive community

Room to improve

  • 💸 Excessive ads, especially for gambling
  • 🚫 Limits on free features like journaling
  • 🔁 Resets progress when reinstalling app

StarDay

From 578 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient countdown timer
  • 💡 Handy widget functionality
  • 🔓 No subscriptions or ads
  • ⭐ Visually appealing design

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Widget issues (unable to select custom countdown)
  • 🔧 Difficulty customizing events (order, background, etc.)
  • 🔢 Limited to one countdown at a time

Bugs and requests

Sober Time

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Login/account issues after device changes
  • Inconsistent notification and reminder functionality

Requested features

4 requests
  • More customization options for widgets and displays
  • Ability to track progress in more granular units
  • Integration with other recovery apps and services
  • Improved ad-free experience for premium users

StarDay

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Widget not displaying custom countdowns
  • Countdown restarting unexpectedly after deleting an event

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to display multiple countdowns on widget
  • Option to customize countdown display (time, background, etc.)
  • Automatic sorting of events by date

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Sober Time

Subscriptions5
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$29.991 Year
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Premium Annual1 Year trial$49.991 Year
None

StarDay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sober Time free?
Sober Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StarDay free?
StarDay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sober Time or StarDay?
Sober Time is rated higher. Sober Time averages 4.9 out of 5 from 43K ratings, while StarDay averages 4.8 from 578 ratings.
Do Sober Time or StarDay have ads?
Sober Time shows ads; StarDay does not.
Which is updated more often, Sober Time or StarDay?
Sober Time ships an update every 2 weeks, and StarDay weekly. Most recently, Sober Time was updated on November 5, 2026 and StarDay on November 3, 2026.

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