Comparison

Get Sober vs Mental Calm

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Local data storage for privacy
  • Daily sobriety review
  • Progress tracking and statistics
  • Notification-based logging
  • Apple Watch compatibility
  • Data export and import
Features
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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

About

Mental Calm

Understand and manage your emotions with this mood tracking app. Analyze your thoughts, develop positive thinking, and reduce anxiety through daily journaling and self-awareness exercises. Premium features include voice notes and photo attachments.

Highlights
  • Mood tracking and analysis
  • Personal emotional journal
  • Develop positive thinking skills
  • Reduce anxiety
  • Increase self-awareness
  • Voice notes (Premium)
  • Photo attachments (Premium)
Features
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Do not let emotions have a negative affect on your life. Learn to control them! Self Harm Tracker: Mental Calm is a simple mood tracking app designed to help you understand emotional changes, analyze thoughts, and develop positive thinking skills. Use the app to recognize early signs of emotional distress and improve self-awareness. Track your mood daily and observe how it changes over time. This helps avoid negative thinking patterns that may increase anxiety or emotional instability. You can describe your mood using text notes that best reflect your emotional state. Voice notes and photo attachments are available with Premium access. Regular mood tracking helps establish connections between thoughts and emotions and makes it easier to understand which thoughts have a positive effect on your mental well-being. The app allows you to: - monitor mood and identify possible reasons for changes - keep a personal emotional journal using text notes - develop positive thinking skills - reduce anxiety and increase feelings of calm - re-evaluate reactions to different life situations - increase self-awareness and emotional control Premium features: - voice notes for mood entries - photo attachments to notes

Screenshots

Get Sober4 screens
Mental Calm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Get Sober at 4.6 against Mental Calm's 3.9. Get Sober also leads on ratings volume (27 vs 7). Mental Calm's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 69%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Get Sober sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Mental Calm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Get Sober holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Get Sober's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mental Calm's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Get Sober ships an update every 6 weeks, Mental Calm every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and August 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Get Sober versus Mental Calm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGet SoberMental Calm
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (27 ratings) — better3.9 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings27 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB12 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPawel DecowskiSvetlana Rabosh

Customer experience

Get Sober

All ratings25 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive69.2%
Neutral15.4%
Negative15.4%

Mental Calm

All ratings7 ratings
Positive57.1%
Neutral28.6%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Get Sober

Subscriptions4
  • 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
1 purchases

Mental Calm

One-time1
  • Self Harm Premium$9.99

Questions

Is Get Sober free?
Get Sober is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mental Calm free?
Mental Calm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Get Sober or Mental Calm?
Get Sober is rated higher. Get Sober averages 4.6 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while Mental Calm averages 3.9 from 7 ratings.
Do Get Sober or Mental Calm have ads?
Neither Get Sober nor Mental Calm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Get Sober or Mental Calm?
Get Sober ships an update every 6 weeks, and Mental Calm every 5 weeks. Most recently, Get Sober was updated on September 5, 2026 and Mental Calm on August 12, 2026.

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