Comparison

Sober Time vs RapidStep10

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

RapidStep10

This app offers a private, guided method for conducting daily personal inventories. It helps users process their feelings by identifying who they are upset with, what it affects, and their character defects, then suggests positive replacements. Users can save, share, or copy their completed inventories.

Highlights
  • Guided daily personal inventory
  • Character defect identification
  • Asset replacement suggestions
  • Customizable 7th-Step prayer
  • Offline functionality
  • Save, copy, and share inventories
  • Multilingual support
Features
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RapidStep10 is a fast, private way to take your daily Step 10 personal inventory. When something is bothering you, walk through it in a minute: • Who are you upset at, and what happened? • What does it affect — your pride, security, relationships, ambitions? • What are your defects of character in it — and the assets to replace them? • Pray the 7th-Step prayer, personalized to how you address your Higher Power. • Do you owe an amends? Who can you help next? Then copy or share the finished inventory, or save it to your private history to look back on. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything you enter stays on your device. No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking, and nothing is ever sent to a server. The app works completely offline. BUILT FOR DAILY USE • A quick, guided form modeled on the Step 10 spot-check inventory • 80+ character defects paired with their opposite assets • The 7th-Step prayer, with the wording you choose for your Higher Power • Save, revisit, copy, and share past inventories • Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Arabic, and Hebrew (right-to-left supported) RapidStep10 is an independent personal tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

Screenshots

Sober Time4 screens
RapidStep104 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RapidStep10 at none against Sober Time's 5. RapidStep10 also leads on ads (none vs shown). Sober Time's advantage is ratings volume (43K vs 1). 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. RapidStep10 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 5.0 for RapidStep10. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sober Time has 43K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sober Time ships an update every 2 weeks, RapidStep10 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sober Time versus RapidStep10: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSober TimeRapidStep10
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (43K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings43K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSociosoftware LLC (Apps)Dovid Cohen

Customer experience

Sober Time

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

RapidStep10

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

RapidStep10

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

RapidStep10

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sober Time free?
Sober Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RapidStep10 free?
RapidStep10 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sober Time or RapidStep10?
RapidStep10 is rated higher. Sober Time averages 4.9 out of 5 from 43K ratings, while RapidStep10 averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Sober Time or RapidStep10 have ads?
Sober Time shows ads; RapidStep10 does not.
Which is updated more often, Sober Time or RapidStep10?
Sober Time ships an update every 2 weeks, and RapidStep10 every 3 weeks. Most recently, Sober Time was updated on November 7, 2026 and RapidStep10 on October 31, 2026.

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