OpenRecovery vs StoriTold
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- AI Recovery Assistant (Kai)
- Voice chat support
- 12 Steps, SMART Recovery, CBT tools
- Self-discovery journals
- Resource library
- Progress tracking
- Calendar view
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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/
StoriTold
This app provides a guided journaling experience with weekly prompts to help users document their life stories. It offers features like voice recording and photo additions for a richer narrative. The app prioritizes privacy and aims to create a lasting legacy for families.
- Weekly guided journaling prompts
- Voice recording of stories (Premium)
- Add photos to stories (Premium)
- AI-driven follow-up questions (Premium)
- Private and secure storage
- Cross-device syncing
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Everybody wants to be remembered. Almost nobody has a system to make sure it happens. You've probably felt it: you open a brand-new journal, and the blank pages just stare back. Where do you even start? So the journal goes in a drawer — and the stories your kids and grandkids would give anything to have someday stay locked in your head. StoriTold fixes the blank page. Each week it asks you a few meaningful questions, one at a time, and quietly keeps your answers forever. No staring at nothing. No "what do I even write?" Just a simple, guided rhythm that becomes a habit you'll actually keep — and, over time, the most complete record of who you are that your family could ever have. It's built on how the best life-story and oral-history work is really done: rotating themes across your whole life — your roots, the people you love, your faith, the hard seasons and what they taught you, and direct letters to the descendants you'll never meet. It draws out meaning, not just names and dates. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Answer a few guided questions each week — by typing or in your own voice • Preserve your actual voice, so they can hear you one day (Premium) • Add photos to your stories (Premium) • Let StoriTold gently ask a follow-up when there's more worth remembering (Premium) • Keep everything private, synced across your devices, and safe — yours alone HOW IT WORKS A few minutes, once a week. StoriTold brings the question; you bring the story. Over months and years, it grows into a living history your family will treasure. FREE & PREMIUM Writing your story is free, always. Premium unlocks voice recordings (so they hear you), photos, and AI follow-up questions that draw out the details that matter. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your stories are some of the most personal things you'll ever write — and they stay that way. Encrypted, private, and controlled by you. For every parent, grandparent, and person who's ever thought "I really should write this down" — StoriTold is the system that finally makes it happen. So your kids, your grandkids, and the great-grandchildren who never get to meet you will still get to know exactly who you were. Be known by the family you'll never meet. Terms of Use (EULA): https://steep-shadow-abe6.trenton-crofts23.workers.dev/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: OpenRecovery at 292 against StoriTold's 1. 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
Both are free to download. OpenRecovery sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month and StoriTold sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for OpenRecovery against 5.0 for StoriTold. 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.
| Parameter | OpenRecovery | StoriTold |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (292 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 292 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Huxley Technologies, LLC | TRENTON J CROFTS |
Customer experience
OpenRecovery
StoriTold
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
StoriTold
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
OpenRecovery
- Monthly Premium Access14 Days trial$9.991 Month
StoriTold
- StoriTold Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- StoriTold Premium Annual$39.991 Year
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