Comparison

OpenRecovery vs Quies.

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

Head to head
About

OpenRecovery

This app provides AI-powered support for various recovery paths, including 12 Steps, SMART Recovery, and CBT. It offers personalized guidance, interactive journals, and a resource library to aid individuals and their allies in their recovery journey.

Highlights
  • AI Recovery Assistant (Kai)
  • Voice chat support
  • 12 Steps, SMART Recovery, CBT tools
  • Self-discovery journals
  • Resource library
  • Progress tracking
  • Calendar view
Features
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Welcome to OpenRecovery, your comprehensive recovery companion featuring Kai, your personal AI Recovery Assistant. OpenRecovery makes recovery accessible, inclusive, and effective—no matter your chosen recovery path or your stage in the journey. OpenRecovery supports a diverse array of recovery methodologies, including the 12 Steps, SMART Recovery, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Whether you're actively involved in a specific program, newly exploring recovery, supporting someone you care about, or you're a professional counselor or coach seeking effective tools, OpenRecovery provides personalized resources and guidance tailored to your needs. Kai offers compassionate, intelligent assistance, answering your questions and guiding you at any stage of your recovery journey—providing continuous support exactly when you need it most. Key Features: NEW Voice Chat with Kai: Experience hands-free recovery support with natural voice conversations. Turn off your screen while talking, no typing required. Choose from different voice options for a personalized experience that feels like talking to a trusted friend. Enhanced Kai AI Recovery Assistant: Intuitive conversations, personalized guidance, and non-judgmental support tailored precisely to your recovery journey. Comprehensive Recovery Exercises: - 12 Steps: Access essential tools like Inventories, Step Work, and Daily Reflections via the "Tools" icon. - SMART Recovery: Utilize Kai-powered exercises including Cost-Benefit Analysis, Hierarchy of Values, and Change Plan Worksheets. - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Access resources to challenge and manage negative thoughts, emotional triggers, and behaviors. Self-Discovery Journals: Engage with interactive journals exploring relationships, motivations, values, gratitude, habits, goals, fears, and triggers. Support for Allies and Professionals: Specialized tools for friends, family members, and professionals supporting recovery journeys. Extensive Recovery Resources Library: Access foundational texts including the AA Big Book, SMART Recovery manuals, CBT workbooks, and meditation guides. Recommended Actions with Daily Habits: Discover curated daily habits and meaningful actions with Kai's intelligent recommendations and reminders. Actions Counter: Track progress with comprehensive metrics showing weekly and lifetime totals. Enhanced AI Search: Find recovery actions instantly with improved search functionality. Calendar View: Share updates, manage recovery actions, and maintain connections with sponsors, mentors, counselors, and trusted allies. Facilitator Suggested Actions: Receive personalized tasks from your sponsor, coach, or therapist within the app. In Addition to SMART Recovery and CBT Methodologies, Specific 12 Step Recovery Programs Supported Include: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Narcotics Anonymous (NA) Gamblers Anonymous (GA) Overeaters Anonymous (OA) Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) Debtors Anonymous (DA) Marijuana Anonymous (MA) Cocaine Anonymous (CA) Al-Anon / Alateen Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) Co-Anon Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) Co-Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (COSLAA) Emotions Anonymous (EA) Gam-Anon / Gam-A-Teen Heroin Anonymous (HA) Nar-Anon Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) Sexual Compulsives Anonymous (SCA) Rageaholics Anonymous (RA) Underearners Anonymous (UA) Workaholics Anonymous (WA) Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) Celebrate Recovery (CR) Eating Disorders Anonymous (EDA) Food Addicts in Recovery (FA) General 12 Steps Recovery Coming Soon: Refuge Recovery, Dharma Recovery OpenRecovery continues to evolve, driven by the community's diverse needs, ensuring everyone can find personalized, effective tools and support for lasting recovery. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Quies.

This app provides a private space for reflection and journaling. It offers guided prompts, quick capture options, and AI-powered insights to help users understand their thoughts and moods. It also includes CBT exercises and integrates with health data for deeper pattern analysis.

Highlights
  • Private journaling with no accounts or data trade
  • Daily quiet questions for reflection
  • Quick capture for overwhelming moments
  • AI-powered reflection and pattern analysis
  • CBT exercises for mental well-being
  • Optional cloud intelligence for Pro users
  • Crisis support links
Features
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Quies is a journal that listens with you. You write or speak, and what you put down stays on your device. No accounts. No ads. No data trade. The brand promise: a private space to think. WHAT QUIES IS: A daily anchor. Each morning, Quies offers one quiet question — never a streak count, never a celebration, never an exclamation. Tap to write or speak. Your words save to Echoes, the chronological library of everything you've captured. A grounding moment. The Minute is a fast-capture surface for overwhelmed moments. Tap and hold the gold + button anywhere in the app. Eight seconds of nothing happens. Then a small invitation to add one thought if you'd like. No prompts. No timer on display. A reflective companion. The Ask tab reads what you wrote and responds with three quiet moves — Acknowledge, Notice, Offer. On iOS 26 devices with Apple Intelligence, the reflection runs entirely on your Neural Engine. On older devices, a curated templated provider runs the same shape locally. Free users get 3 reflections a day; Pro is unlimited. A toolkit when you need one. Five CBT exercises ship free — Thought Record, Worry Container, Behavior Activation, Gratitude, Body Scan. Ten more unlock with Pro — Cognitive Defusion, Worry Tree, Catastrophe Scaling, Five Senses Grounding, Loving-Kindness, Compassion Break, Urge Surfing, Sleep Hygiene, Worry Parking, Emotion Wheel. A pattern surface. Reflect shows what's emerging across your Echoes — mood arcs, theme groupings, and (with HealthKit permission) the gentle correlation between your sleep and how your days feel. Pattern language only — Quies never says "because". PRO: - Unlimited reflections from the on-device companion - The full 15-exercise CBT toolkit - Cloud Intelligence — opt-in, off by default, body signed and never sent in a crisis - Semantic search across every Echo, stemmed and scored on device - Apple Health writeback for State of Mind and Mindful Minutes - Privacy Receipt as a printable PDF — your full data ledger, on demand Yearly with a free trial. Or monthly. PRIVACY: Quies's privacy posture is the strongest in our portfolio. - Default: nothing leaves your device. No account. No telemetry. No analytics. - Optional Cloud Intelligence: Pro subscribers can opt in. Entry text gets HMAC-signed and forwarded to Anthropic under their zero-retention API policy. Crisis-flagged entries never route to cloud. - Optional anonymous diagnostics: content-free event counts to our internal dashboard. Off by default. - Privacy Receipt: a chronological ledger of every data event Quies has made on your behalf. Export as PDF any time. SAFETY: If you write something heavy, Quies surfaces a Crisis Card with 911, 988 (US Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), and Crisis Text Line links. The Crisis Card is never paywalled, never delayed, and never silenced. Your words still save — we never lose what you wrote. This app is not a substitute for clinical care. If you are in crisis, please reach a professional. CONTACT: support@masdinero.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://houst29476.github.io/quies-site/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://houst29476.github.io/quies-site/privacy/

Screenshots

OpenRecovery4 screens
Quies.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: OpenRecovery at 292 against Quies.'s 1. Quies.'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, 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. OpenRecovery sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month and Quies. sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for OpenRecovery against 5.0 for Quies.. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OpenRecovery has 292 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OpenRecovery ships an update every 2 weeks, Quies. every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 22, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
OpenRecovery versus Quies.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpenRecoveryQuies.
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (292 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings292 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB52 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperHuxley Technologies, LLCMas Dinero Ventures LLC

Customer experience

OpenRecovery

All ratings292 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral0.7%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral2.2%
Negative8.9%

Quies.

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

OpenRecovery

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Service tab inaccessible due to persistent feedback popup
  • App freezes preventing users from moving forward in conversations
  • Feedback survey popup cannot be dismissed

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode or night mode option
  • Restore previous app icon with stairway design
  • Tip jar or donation feature to support developers
  • Expanded non-secular and scientifically-based program integration

Quies.

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

OpenRecovery

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Premium Access14 Days trial$9.991 Month
3 purchases

Quies.

Subscriptions2
  • Quies Pro — Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Quies Pro — Yearly3 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time1
  • Quies Pro — Lifetime$249.00

Questions

Is OpenRecovery free?
OpenRecovery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quies. free?
Quies. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, OpenRecovery or Quies.?
Quies. is rated higher. OpenRecovery averages 4.9 out of 5 from 292 ratings, while Quies. averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do OpenRecovery or Quies. have ads?
Neither OpenRecovery nor Quies. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OpenRecovery or Quies.?
OpenRecovery ships an update every 2 weeks, and Quies. every 5 days. Most recently, OpenRecovery was updated on October 22, 2026 and Quies. on October 22, 2026.

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