Comparison

QuitNow vs Cinder

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

Head to head
About

QuitNow

This app supports individuals in their journey to quit smoking. It provides tools to track progress, offers a supportive community chat, and includes expert-led sessions and a structured course. Users can monitor health improvements, celebrate milestones, and access AI-powered advice.

Highlights
  • Track smoke-free status
  • Community chat for ex-smokers
  • Live expert sessions
  • Step-by-step quitting course
  • Milestone tracking
  • Health indicator monitoring
  • AI-powered Q&A
Features
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Have you considered quitting smoking? Whether you’ve already quit smoking or you’re still thinking about it, QuitNow will help you quit tobacco for good. Quitting smoking is one of the best decisions you can make for your health: it reduces your risk of disease, you regain energy, you save money, and you also protect the people around you. But the truth is, quitting isn’t easy. That’s where QuitNow comes in. QuitNow was born in 2011, created by a smoker who wanted to quit. Since then, we’ve grown, brought in addiction specialists, and refined our tools so you can quit tobacco for good: YOUR EX-SMOKER STATUS When you quit smoking, it’s important to clearly see what you’re achieving. That’s why on QuitNow’s home screen you’ll see how long it’s been since you last smoked, how many cigarettes you haven’t smoked, how much money you’ve saved, and how much life you’ve regained. COMMUNITY: THE EX-SMOKERS’ CHAT Having a smoke-free environment is crucial when you quit. QuitNow offers a chat full of people who, like you, have said goodbye to tobacco. Sharing your journey with other ex-smokers will make your path easier. LIVE SESSIONS WITH AN EXPERT Every month we host a live session with a smoking-cessation expert. In these sessions, the psychologist explains the best way to quit smoking and answers attendees’ questions live. These sessions are a unique opportunity to get personalized advice and resolve doubts in real time. A COMPLETE COURSE TO QUIT SMOKING Some people prefer a more structured method when they quit. That’s why QuitNow includes a step-by-step course designed to guide you throughout the entire quitting process. It works like a digital book, but integrated inside the app. MILESTONES: SMALL MOTIVATIONS TO QUIT SMOKING As with any task in life, quitting is easier when you break the challenge into smaller goals. That’s why QuitNow offers 80 milestones based on the cigarettes you’ve avoided, the days you’ve gone without smoking, and the money you’ve saved. This way, you can start celebrating your wins from day one. YOUR HEALTH AS AN EX-SMOKER In QuitNow you’ll find a list of health indicators that show how your body improves day by day. These indicators are the same ones published by the World Health Organization, and we update them as soon as the WHO does. Plus, QuitNow includes other sections designed to help you on your journey to quit smoking. QUITNOW AI Whenever questions come up during your quitting process, you can turn to QuitNow AI. It’s designed to provide clear, reliable information, based on our course and on data from the World Health Organization. BOOKS TO HELP YOU QUIT SMOKING Learning techniques and approaches to quit can make the process much easier. That’s why we’ve selected well-known books that can effectively help you on your path to a tobacco-free life. ALSO ON YOUR WATCH QuitNow’s Apple Watch app and its widgets and tiles let you track your progress, see how much you’ve saved, and check your smoke-free stats right from your wrist. Because we dedicate so much time and effort to it, we firmly believe QuitNow is the best app to quit smoking. As always, there’s room for improvement—so if you have any idea to make QuitNow even better, please write to us at ios@quitnow.app. We truly hope QuitNow supports you on your journey to a tobacco-free life. Terms of Service: https://tos.quitnow.app/eula Privacy Policy: https://tos.quitnow.app/privacypolicy

About

Cinder

This app helps you track your smoking habits by logging each cigarette or vape. It visualizes your progress with a growing forest and provides insights into your smoking patterns and spending. The core tracking features are free, with an optional Pro version for deeper historical analysis and iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Log cigarettes and vapes
  • Track spending and yearly cost
  • Visualize progress with a growing forest
  • Analyze smoking patterns by event and time
  • No account or data collection
  • Optional iCloud Sync
  • Free core features
Features
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Cinder counts what you smoke. That's all it does, and it does it carefully. Tap when you have one, say what was going on — coffee, work, waiting. Two taps, and you're done. Behind the numbers is a hand-drawn forest. Go longer between cigarettes and it grows. Go shorter and it falls back. It measures you against your own recent normal, not a target somebody else picked, so it moves slowly and it means something when it moves. No scores. No streaks to protect. No badges. WHAT YOU SEE · How long since your last one, next to your usual gap · What you've spent this month, and what that comes to over a year · Per day, time of day, weekday vs weekend, your longest stretches · Which event you smoke with most — coffee, stress, drinking, whatever you named it · Cigarettes and vapes, counted apart · Eight languages, your own currency NO ACCOUNT. NOTHING COLLECTED. No sign-up, no email, no password, no profile. Your records sit on your phone, in Cinder. We never see them, because they never reach us. iCloud Sync is off until you turn it on yourself. Turn it on and your records go into your own private iCloud — your account, your storage, still not ours. Leave it off and nothing ever leaves this phone. NO LECTURE Cinder doesn't tell you to quit. It doesn't congratulate you and it doesn't scold you. It writes down what happened and draws the forest. What you make of that is yours. FREE, AND CINDER PRO Counting is free. Tapping, the forest, your events, today's numbers — all of it, for as long as you want. Nothing you record is ever held back from you. Cinder Pro is for looking back over it: per day across your whole history, what you spent every month, the complete timeline, cigarettes and vapes counted apart, and iCloud Sync. Monthly, yearly, or paid once and never again. The exact price appears in the app, in your currency, before you agree to anything. The subscriptions renew until you cancel; cancel any time in Settings → your Apple Account → Subscriptions. The one-time purchase does not renew. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://altrivx.github.io/cinder/privacy.html

Screenshots

QuitNow4 screens
Cinder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cinder at 100% against QuitNow's 62%. Cinder also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). QuitNow's advantage is ratings volume (14K vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. QuitNow sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Cinder sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cinder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: QuitNow has 14K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of QuitNow's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cinder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QuitNow ships an update weekly, Cinder every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
QuitNow versus Cinder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuitNowCinder
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (14K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14K — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size132 MB30 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperFewlaps SLALTRIVX LLC

Customer experience

QuitNow

All ratings13,620 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral4.8%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews339 reviews
Positive61.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative30.1%

Cinder

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

QuitNow

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes or freezes on some devices
  • Login and account issues for some users
  • Incorrect calculations for money/cigarettes saved

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to customize achievements and milestones
  • Improved community moderation
  • Option to track gradual reduction in smoking
  • Cross-device sync for user data
  • Better support for relapse and quitting again

Cinder

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

QuitNow

Subscriptions10
  • QuitNow PRO7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • QuitNow PRO$3.491 Month
  • QuitNow PRO7 Days trial$4.493 Months
Show 7 more
  • QuitNow PRO$4.991 Month
  • QuitNow PRO$5.493 Months
  • QuitNow PRO$9.993 Months
  • QuitNow PRO7 Days trial$9.993 Months
  • QuitNow PRO$16.991 Year
  • QuitNow PRO$19.991 Year
  • QuitNow PRO7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • QuitNow PRO$34.99
3 purchases

Cinder

Subscriptions2
  • Cinder Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Cinder Yearly$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Cinder Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is QuitNow free?
QuitNow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cinder free?
Cinder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, QuitNow or Cinder?
Cinder is rated higher. QuitNow averages 4.7 out of 5 from 14K ratings, while Cinder averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do QuitNow or Cinder have ads?
QuitNow shows ads; Cinder does not.
Which is updated more often, QuitNow or Cinder?
QuitNow ships an update weekly, and Cinder every 8 days. Most recently, QuitNow was updated on November 1, 2026 and Cinder on October 18, 2026.

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