Get Sober vs Calm Urge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Get Sober
This app helps you track your sobriety with a focus on privacy and simplicity. Log your daily progress, view your achievements, and manage your data locally on your device. It offers convenient features like notification-based logging and Apple Watch integration.
- Local data storage for privacy
- Daily sobriety review
- Progress tracking and statistics
- Notification-based logging
- Apple Watch compatibility
- Data export and import
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Get Sober is a private sobriety tracker designed to help you stay accountable with a simple daily check-in. All you have to do is review your day by telling the app whether you stayed sober. Get Sober shows useful insights about your progress over time. • free • no ads • no account required • all data stored locally on your device • no cloud sync — not even we can see your data • export and import your data • track sobriety length • see your proportion of sober days • track spend • daily review reminders • mark days directly from notifications • works on Apple Watch • set an initial sobriety length
Calm Urge
This app provides tools and activities to help users manage urges to self-harm. It allows for daily emotion tracking, offers calming exercises like breathing and music, and includes privacy features like password protection and emergency contacts.
- Urge tracking
- Daily emotion journaling
- Calming activities (breathing, music, drawing)
- Password protection
- Communication card
- Emergency contacts
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Calm Urge is the perfect app to help you resist the urge to self-harm. With a range of activities and tools, you can keep track of your emotions and worries, and develop new coping mechanisms to help you stay calm and in control. With a daily record of your feelings, you can easily identify patterns and trends in your emotions and concerns, helping you to build a better understanding of your triggers and responses. And with a range of calming activities, including breathing exercises, Tibetan bowls, musical instruments, and drawing tools, you can find the perfect way to soothe and distract yourself when the urge to self-harm strikes. You can also create a private password to keep your information completely secure, and use a communication card to let others know how you're feeling when you're not able to talk about it. Plus, with the ability to add emergency contacts, you can always have someone to call when you need help the most. So if you're looking for a powerful new tool to help you manage your emotions and resist the urge to self-harm, download Calm Urge today and start taking control of your life. Terms of Use: https://wisefoxapps.wordpress.com/terms-of-service/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Get Sober at none against Calm Urge's shown. Calm Urge's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (2.1K vs 30). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Get Sober sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Calm Urge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Get Sober against 4.7 for Calm Urge. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calm Urge has 2.1K ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Get Sober's written reviews are positive against 83% of Calm Urge's.
Get Sober ships an update every 6 weeks, Calm Urge every 8 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Get Sober | Calm Urge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (30 ratings) | 4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews | 82.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 | 2.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pawel Decowski | Shining Muffin LLC |
Customer experience
Get Sober
Calm Urge
Bugs and requests
Get Sober
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Calm Urge
Reported bugs
2 issues- Forgot password feature not working
- Inconsistent app performance issues
Requested features
4 requests- Add milestones/achievements tracking
- Improve sound/audio functionality
- Allow customizing mood/emotion options
- Provide more free access to analytics
In-app purchases
Get Sober
- Get Sober Supporter$4.991 Month
- Get Sober Supporter$9.993 Months
- Get Sober Supporter$14.996 Months
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- Get Sober Supporter$19.991 Year
Calm Urge
- Premium7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Premium$39.991 Year









