Comparison

The Long View vs Zero Smoke

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

Head to head
About

The Long View

This app calculates the life expectancy you regain by quitting smoking, based on your personal habit. It offers daily check-ins, a countdown to your next milestone, and a visual reminder of your motivation. Premium features unlock detailed recovery timelines, financial savings, and enhanced privacy controls.

Highlights
  • Life expectancy regained calculator
  • Daily one-tap check-in
  • Smoke-free day count
  • Motivation photo display
  • Quit plan and recovery timeline (Premium)
  • Money saved tracking (Premium)
  • Sync across devices (Premium)
Features
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The Long View shows the time you win back by quitting smoking, worked out from your own habit. Enter how much you smoke and for how long. The app shows the years that habit has likely cost you, and how many come back as you cut down and stay smoke free. A one-tap check-in each day keeps the number current. INCLUDED - The years you are winning back, from your own age, sex, country and smoking history - A daily check-in in one tap, with a countdown to the next one - Your full history, every day of it - A photo of your reason, right behind the number - Your smoke-free day count and your next health milestone - The whole app in any of 25 languages, picked in Settings - Log today from the menu bar on Mac - Ask Siri to log today, help with a craving or say your time won back - Save each craving breathing session to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes - Sign in with a passkey and Face ID or Touch ID PREMIUM - Money saved, from your own price per pack - A quit plan that steps you down to zero - The full recovery timeline, with the date you reached each milestone - App lock, to keep your check-ins and your photo private - Your resting heart rate and blood oxygen from Apple Health on the Your body card - Widgets, the Apple Watch app and export - Sync across all your devices and platforms. Sign in once with your email, or with Apple, Google or Microsoft, and Premium follows you. The yearly plan starts with a 3-day trial for new subscribers. Lifetime is one payment. BUILT TO BE FINISHED Reach 365 smoke-free days and every Premium feature is included at no charge. WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM About 17 minutes of life per cigarette for men and 22 for women (Jackson et al., Addiction, 2025), a life table for your own age, sex and country (the US Social Security Administration for the United States, the World Health Organization for every other country), and the recovery bands from Jha et al., New England Journal of Medicine, 2013. The full method is on thelongviewapp.com. YOUR PRIVACY Classic needs no account, and what you log stays on your device. With Premium, your check-ins sync encrypted with a key made on your device, so what we store is unreadable to us. No ads. The estimate is a motivational figure built from population averages. For medical advice, talk to a doctor or a quitline.

About

Zero Smoke

Features
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ZeroSmoke helps you quit or cut down cigarettes, vaping and cannabis. Track your progress, see the money you save, and stay motivated one day at a time. QUIT MODE • See how long you have been smoke-free, down to the second • Watch your savings grow with every cigarette, puff or joint you skip • See the units you did not use and the time you saved • Track your longest streak REDUCE MODE (PRO) Not ready to stop today? Pick a quit date. Your daily limit drops a little every day until you get there. • Log each use with one tap • Backdate, edit or delete entries • See how many uses you have left today EXPOSURE SCORE • See how much of your starting nicotine you removed in the last 7 days • See your lifetime exposure in pack-years or ml of liquid • Add notes for your vape products STATS (PRO) • Charts of your day, week and month • Your Exposure Score by week WIDGET AND SIRI (PRO) • Log a use from your Home Screen widget • Say "Log use in Zero Smoke" to log with Siri MORE • Mood calendar: record one mood per day for each habit • Track more than one habit at a time • One base currency for all your savings PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your habits, usage log and moods stay on your device. ZeroSmoke does not ask you to make an account. ZEROSMOKE PRO Reduce mode, Stats, and widget and Siri logging need a ZeroSmoke Pro subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://zerosmokeapp.com/#/privacy ZeroSmoke is not a medical device and does not give medical advice. Talk to a doctor for help with quitting.

Screenshots

The Long View4 screens
Zero Smoke4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: The Long View at every 2 days against Zero Smoke's fortnightly. The Long View also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. The Long View sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Zero Smoke sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Long View ships an update every 2 days, Zero Smoke fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
The Long View versus Zero Smoke: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Long ViewZero Smoke
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB69 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperAugustus Travels LLCMARIO PETROV USHEV

In-app purchases

5 purchases

The Long View

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly, Paid Now1 Year trial$44.991 Year
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$55.991 Year
One-time2
  • $0.99 One-Time Donation$0.99
  • Premium for life$83.99
2 purchases

Zero Smoke

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan$3.991 Month
  • Annual Plan7 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is The Long View free?
The Long View is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zero Smoke free?
Zero Smoke is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do The Long View or Zero Smoke have ads?
Neither The Long View nor Zero Smoke shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Long View or Zero Smoke?
The Long View ships an update every 2 days, and Zero Smoke fortnightly. Most recently, The Long View was updated on November 3, 2026 and Zero Smoke on November 8, 2026.

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