Comparison

quitSTART vs Never Relapse Again

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

Head to head
About

quitSTART

This app supports individuals aiming to quit smoking by offering personalized tips, inspiration, and challenges based on their smoking history. It helps users prepare for quitting, track progress with badges, manage cravings, and stay motivated on their journey to a healthier, smokefree life.

Highlights
  • Personalized quitting tips
  • Progress monitoring and badges
  • Craving and mood management
  • Distraction games and challenges
  • Customizable Quit Kit
  • Social media sharing
Features
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quitSTART is a free app made for people who want to quit smoking. This app takes the information you provide about your smoking history and gives you tailored tips, inspiration, and challenges to help you become smokefree and live a healthier life. quitSTART helps you: • Get ready to quit with tips and information to prepare you for becoming smokefree • Monitor your progress and earn badges for smokefree milestones and other achievements • Get back on track if you slip and smoke • Manage cravings and bad moods in healthy ways • Distract yourself from cravings with games and challenges • Store helpful tips, inspirations, and challenges in your Quit Kit • Share your progress and favorite tips through social media quitSTART is a product of Smokefree.gov, a smoking cessation resource created by the Tobacco Control Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and input from tobacco control professionals, smoking cessation experts, and ex-smokers.

About

Never Relapse Again

This app offers a comprehensive 28-day program to help you quit smoking. It combines psychology, sports, and meditation techniques with daily progress tracking, craving management, and community support to guide you towards a smoke-free life.

Highlights
  • 28-day quitting program
  • Daily progress tracking graph
  • Pattern analysis for smoking triggers
  • Craving management techniques
  • Community support forum
  • Milestone challenges
  • 800+ minutes of psychology, sports, and meditation content
Features
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Quit smoking in 28 days! What is your experience with smoking? Have you: ● tried every quitting app on the market, ● read the famous Allen Carr book, ● took all the advice in the world, and everything you have done still has not helped you into liberation from addiction? Is it possible then to stop smoking even when we understand we are deeply attached to it? Is there a method that brings all the evidence-based scientific procedures together: ● psychology (CBT, ACT, MBCT) ● sports ● meditation The good news is that such a method exists! It has been in development for 3 long years, and now with great regard it is available to you. What you get in this application: Daily progress: You get a beautiful graph that shows you the count of smoked and and handled cigarettes. You use it to motivate you mind. Daily analysis: You explore the patters: when do you smoke, and why. This will help you a lot in finding the problem areas in your life and fix them. No problem = no reason to smoke. Handle craving: You get methods of handling the craving which you will use over and over, delaying more and more the smoking craving, until it eventually disappears. Community: People like you take the same adventure as you do, and you stick together, helping each other with information and active listening. Challenges: After you stop smoking, you get to complete milestones so that your brain get dopamine kicks with every progress you make. This will keep your mind happy and will motivate you not to touch the cigarette again. 800+ minutes of psychology, sports and meditation: You get a huge amount of media content which teaches you: ● mindful and WINDful smoking - how to smoke better (yes, there is such a thing) ● who are your friends and enemies in your adventure ● what are your triggers and how to handle them ● language and mindset change, so that you stop criticizing yourself and start trusting yourself ● how to stay away from the cigarette during the most difficult days and the best part: All content is free: You can get access to all the videos and features without paying a single cent! You have probably tried to quit smoking for 10 or 20 years and you know this is extremely difficult, and it's perhaps the longest lasting self destructive behavior in your life. No more! Welcome to the adventure of your lifetime, where you start a smoker and are reborn as a hero! Thank you for choosing Never Relapse Again, enjoy your journey towards freedom! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

quitSTART2 screens
Never Relapse Again4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: quitSTART at 4.6 against Never Relapse Again's 3.0. quitSTART also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (2.4K vs 2). Never Relapse Again's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 72%) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

quitSTART holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: quitSTART has 2.4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of quitSTART's written reviews are positive against 100% of Never Relapse Again's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

quitSTART ships an update every 4 months, Never Relapse Again every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
quitSTART versus Never Relapse Again: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterquitSTARTNever Relapse Again
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2.4K ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews72.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.4K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB58 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperICF InternationalWIND METHOD S.R.L.

Customer experience

quitSTART

All ratings2,422 ratings
Positive91.1%
Neutral5.7%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews162 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral13.0%
Negative14.8%

Never Relapse Again

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

quitSTART

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Distract me games not loading
  • Challenges not working properly
  • Inconsistent behavior across devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more mood options for check-ins
  • Allow editing of quit date and settings
  • Improve navigation and make it more intuitive
  • Provide instructions and a help section

Never Relapse Again

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

quitSTART

No in-app purchases

None

Never Relapse Again

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is quitSTART free?
quitSTART is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Never Relapse Again free?
Never Relapse Again is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, quitSTART or Never Relapse Again?
quitSTART is rated higher. quitSTART averages 4.6 out of 5 from 2.4K ratings, while Never Relapse Again averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do quitSTART or Never Relapse Again have ads?
Neither quitSTART nor Never Relapse Again shows ads.
Which is updated more often, quitSTART or Never Relapse Again?
quitSTART ships an update every 4 months, and Never Relapse Again every 6 weeks. Most recently, quitSTART was updated on September 23, 2026 and Never Relapse Again on September 2, 2026.

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