quitSTART vs Smokerstop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Personalized quitting tips
- Progress monitoring and badges
- Craving and mood management
- Distraction games and challenges
- Customizable Quit Kit
- Social media sharing
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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.
Smokerstop
This app offers a science-based motivational approach to help users quit smoking. It allows for personalized goal setting, visualizes bodily recovery, provides advice, and reminds users of the benefits of not smoking. Alerts on achievements help users stay on track to become non-smokers.
- Science-based motivational approach
- Personalized goal setting
- Visualizes body recovery
- Provides advice and reminders
- Achievement alerts
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Smokerstop uses a science-based motivational approach to help you stop smoking in a pleasant way. The app individualizes your quitting attempt by letting you set personal goals, visualizes the recovery of your body, helps with advices and reminds you of the advantages of smoking along the way. By sending you alerts on your recent achievements the app keeps you on your path of successfully staying a non-smoker.
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Verdict
quitSTART and Smokerstop both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Smokerstop's written reviews are positive against 72% of quitSTART's. Smokerstop also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). quitSTART's advantage is ratings volume (2.4K vs 11). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for quitSTART against 4.5 for Smokerstop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: quitSTART has 2.4K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of quitSTART's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smokerstop's.
quitSTART ships an update every 4 months, Smokerstop every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | quitSTART | Smokerstop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.4K ratings) — better | 4.5 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.4K — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ICF International | Titus Brinker |
Customer experience
quitSTART
Smokerstop
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
Smokerstop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
quitSTART
No in-app purchases
Smokerstop
No in-app purchases
