AA 12 Step Toolkit vs RapidStep10
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AA 12 Step Toolkit
This app provides a comprehensive set of tools for individuals in recovery, offering guidance, inventories, readings, and practical utilities based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous. It includes features for sponsorship, step work, sobriety tracking, and personal reflections, all within a secure and easy-to-use interface.
- In-app sponsorship with messaging
- Full Big Book text and step guides
- Sobriety time calculator and statistics
- Moral inventory and daily practice tools
- Readings and prayers
- Gratitude lists and personal notes
- PIN, Face ID, and Touch ID security
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12 Step Toolkit – Everything AA Members Need for Daily Recovery 12 Step Toolkit is a complete set of recovery tools designed to support your journey—day by day, step by step. Built around the principles found in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, this app combines guidance, inventories, readings, and practical utilities to help you stay connected to your programme. Whether you are new to recovery or continuing your journey, 12 Step Toolkit keeps everything you need in one secure, easy-to-use place. KEY FEATURES IN-APP SPONSORSHIP • Connect with thousands of sponsors and sponsees worldwide • Find a sponsor • Add sponsees • Secure, instant in-app messaging BIG BOOK & STEP WORK • Full 164 pages of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous • 70+ additional stories from early editions • Step-by-step guides on how to work all 12 Steps • Dedicated sections for completing your own step work RECOVERY CALCULATOR • Track your clean or sober time with detailed statistics, averages, and milestones INVENTORIES & DAILY PRACTICES • Comprehensive Step 4 moral inventory • Step 10 spot-check tool • Interactive “On Awakening” inventory • Nightly review with reminders • Hourly mindfulness and consciousness reminders READINGS & PRAYERS Readings included: • AA Preamble • How It Works • The 12 Traditions • Promises (pp. 83–84) • Just For Today • On Awakening • On Retiring • A Vision For You Prayers included: • Serenity Prayer (standard and extended) • 3rd Step Prayer • 7th Step Prayer • 11th Step Prayer • The Lord’s Prayer GRATITUDE, NOTES & SHARING • Create gratitude lists • Write personal notes and reflections • Share inventories, lists, and notes using standard iOS sharing tools PRIVACY & SECURITY • PIN lock • Face ID and Touch ID support • Local-only storage for your step work, inventories, and notes WORK ALL 12 STEPS – RIGHT INSIDE THE APP Step 1: Track your sobriety time with accurate calculations Step 2: Reflect and acknowledge acceptance Step 3: Record your decision and milestone Step 4: Complete a detailed moral inventory Step 5: Share your Step 4 with a sponsor or trusted person Steps 6 & 7: Record readiness and willingness for change Step 8: Build your amends list Step 9: Track your amends as you make them Step 10: Maintain daily awareness with spot-check inventories Step 11: Complete your nightly review Step 12: Continue carrying the message Everything is guided, organised, and easy to update. SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS • Annual subscription: $39.99/year • Quarterly subscription: $15.99 • Subscriptions provide unlimited, ad-free access to all premium features • One-time purchases are available for enhanced in-app connections Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscription in Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Terms of Use: https://www.12steptoolkit.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.12steptoolkit.com/privacy IMPORTANT NOTICE This app is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Alcoholics Anonymous, AAWS, or any other 12-Step fellowship. “A.A.” and “Alcoholics Anonymous” are trademarks of A
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.
- Guided daily personal inventory
- Character defect identification
- Asset replacement suggestions
- Customizable 7th-Step prayer
- Offline functionality
- Save, copy, and share inventories
- Multilingual support
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RapidStep10 at none against AA 12 Step Toolkit's 12. RapidStep10 also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). AA 12 Step Toolkit's advantage is ratings volume (3.6K vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). On price, 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. AA 12 Step Toolkit sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. RapidStep10 asks for nothing beyond the download.
RapidStep10 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AA 12 Step Toolkit has 3.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
AA 12 Step Toolkit ships an update every 2 months, RapidStep10 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AA 12 Step Toolkit | RapidStep10 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.6K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.6K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tushar Bhagat | Dovid Cohen |
Customer experience
AA 12 Step Toolkit
RapidStep10
Bugs and requests
AA 12 Step Toolkit
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when trying to add sobriety date
- Hourly reminders not working properly
- Login/sync issues
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to change time zone
- Improve sharing/connectivity features
- Reduce ads/make free version more usable
RapidStep10
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
AA 12 Step Toolkit
- Weekly Subscription$1.497 Days
- Quarterly2 variants$9.993 Months
- Quarterly Subscription$15.993 Months
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- Annual$19.991 Year
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Annual Subscription$39.991 Year
- 3 Months Sponsee Upgrade$9.99
- 3 Months Unlock For 1 Sponsee$15.99
- 1 Year Sponsee Upgrade$19.99
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- 1 Year Unlock For 1 Sponsee$39.99
- Lifetime Access$99.99
RapidStep10
No in-app purchases
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