12 Steps Guide vs One Step Recovery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
12 Steps Guide
This app provides a comprehensive guide to the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, featuring audiobooks of key recovery tapes and literature. It includes prayers, readings, a sobriety calculator, and the complete Big Book text for a structured recovery journey.
- 12-step program guide
- Audiobooks of recovery tapes
- Complete Big Book text
- Sobriety calculator
- Included prayers and readings
- AA literature
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Work the Twelve Steps one day at a time, with a practical guide to every Step and Tradition, the Big Book and over 90 hours of recovery audio, in one calm, easy-to-read app. THE STEPS AND TRADITIONS - A guide to each of the Twelve Steps, with an introduction and a conclusion, written from personal experience in plain language - A guide to each of the Twelve Traditions - See how far you've read: a quiet percentage while you read, and a tick when you finish THE BIG BOOK - Every chapter, from the Doctor's Opinion to A Vision for You - Personal stories from the first and second editions - Printed page numbers, so you can follow along in a meeting - A clean list of chapters and stories with a tick for each one you've read, and "Continue reading" to pick up where you left off PRAYERS AND READINGS - The Serenity Prayer, the Third, Seventh and Eleventh Step prayers and more - How It Works, the Promises, the Preamble, Just for Today, On Awakening and other readings - Sobriety tips, including how to find a sponsor, and a link to the day's Daily Reflection RECOVERY AUDIO - 138 recordings in 11 albums: Big Book studies, speaker tapes and meditation bells, including Joe and Charlie, Chuck C., Sandy B., Clarence S. and Father Martin - Read along with the transcript of the Joe and Charlie and Big Book recordings - Choose your playback speed, from 0.75× to 2× - Keeps playing with the screen locked, with controls on the lock screen - Premium: download recordings and listen offline YOUR RECOVERY - Count your days from your recovery date. It stays on your phone. - Optional hourly reminders between the times you choose, each with a thought for the hour COMFORTABLE TO READ - Choose your text size; the app also follows your iPhone's text size - Light and dark themes, or follow your iPhone's setting - Designed for iPad too, with readings beside their list FREE, WITH A PREMIUM OPTION Reading and listening are free and supported by adverts. Premium removes the adverts and lets you download recordings for offline listening. Premium is an annual subscription with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the trial ends, and the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account's subscription settings. No account is needed. Your recovery date and your reading stay on your device. Terms of use: https://ibyteapps.com/apps/12-step-guide/terms Privacy policy: https://ibyteapps.com/apps/12-step-guide/privacy 12 Step Guide is not affiliated with or endorsed by Alcoholics Anonymous or A.A. World Services, Inc.
One Step Recovery
This app helps individuals in recovery track their progress and maintain accountability. It offers daily motivational quotes, communication tools, meeting information, and scheduling features to support sobriety.
- Track recovery progress
- Daily motivational quotes
- Chat/messaging functionality
- AA meeting locator
- Agenda and scheduling
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One Step's app is built for those in recovery in order to track their recovery progress and help keep themselves accountable. Features include daily motivational quotes, chat/messaging, AA meetings, agenda/scheduling and more! One Step is used by over 20,000 people in recovery.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: One Step Recovery at none against 12 Steps Guide's 4. One Step Recovery also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months). 12 Steps Guide's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 181). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. 12 Steps Guide sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. One Step Recovery asks for nothing beyond the download.
12 Steps Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 12 Steps Guide has 3.3K ratings behind it against 181, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of 12 Steps Guide's written reviews are positive against 86% of One Step Recovery's.
12 Steps Guide ships an update every 3 months, One Step Recovery every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 12 Steps Guide | One Step Recovery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.3K ratings) — better | 4.4 (181 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.0% of reviews — better | 86.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | 181 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tushar Bhagat | One Step Software Inc. |
Customer experience
12 Steps Guide
One Step Recovery
User reviews
12 Steps Guide
From 3.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great recovery resource
- 🚀 Convenient and easy to use
- 💡 Comprehensive AA literature in one place
- 🙏 Helpful prayers and daily reflections
Room to improve
- 🐛 Ads still present after paid upgrade
- 🤔 Lack of dark mode option
- 💤 Difficulty retaining information from reading
One Step Recovery
From 181 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helps with recovery and life goals
- 👍 Provides motivation and daily quotes
- 👍 Fosters community support and interaction
- 👍 Keeps users accountable
- 👍 Easy to use and user-friendly
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App shuts down with prolonged use or many tasks
- 🐛 Check-in feature is unreliable
- 🐛 Login/check-in issues
- 🐛 App won't work for some users
Bugs and requests
12 Steps Guide
Reported bugs
2 issues- Daily reflections page not working
- App crashes on older devices
Requested features
3 requests- Add sobriety tracker
- Include 12 & 12 book content
- Improve bookmarking and page saving
One Step Recovery
Reported bugs
7 issues- App shuts down if left open too long or too many tasks are performed
- Check-in feature either doesn't respond properly or users forget due to lack of service
- Crashes frequently when trying to check in/out, save notes, or create documents
- App won't work at all for some users
- Frequently needs to be deleted and reinstalled to function
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- Check-in feature isn't tracking meetings
- Check-in at home button disappeared
Requested features
2 requests- Dark screen/dark mode option
- Option to pay for membership and fees virtually
In-app purchases
12 Steps Guide
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Donate$2.99
- Donate$4.99
- Donate$9.99
One Step Recovery
No in-app purchases
Questions
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