Comparison

Sober Lantern vs Don't Drink Today

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

Head to head
About

Sober Lantern

This app helps individuals in sober living navigate their recovery journey. It offers daily motivation, a sobriety counter, and tools to organize legal documentation and proof of residency. It also simplifies payments, overnight requests, and finding local meetings.

Highlights
  • Daily motivationals
  • Sobriety counter
  • Legal documentation organization
  • Proof of residency
  • Payment processing
  • Overnight request management
  • Local meeting finder
Features
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Let’s face it… Entering sober living is a huge adjustment. Lots of new rules, new environment, learning the area… It’s a lot to navigate. Lantern Sober Living Management can help light the path for your recovery journey. Daily motivationals, along with a sobriety counter are just some of the tools available with this program. Lantern helps to organize important documentation for legal issues and provides proof of residency. It essentially becomes a one stop option to make payments, requests overnights and find local meetings. From a provider standpoint, Lantern delivers an overview of your program including open beds, total bed count, smart drug screen monitoring, financial tracking and geo-specific meeting check-ins. Communication with management and staff is simplified, making sure everyone gets important notifications and stays on the same path. Lantern Sober Living Management was created by sober living owners, for sober living owners. Our systems are intuitive and simple, providing the most relevant information for your Program in real time, at all times. Entering Sober living is typically a life saving decision. Using a quality management system is a decision which enables your Program to be more effective in saving those lives.

About

Don't Drink Today

This wellness app helps users abstain from alcohol through daily reflection, journaling, and mindset exercises. It focuses on understanding habits and triggers to build healthier responses and foster personal growth. All data is kept private on the device.

Highlights
  • Daily commitment focus
  • Guided journaling and reflection
  • Gratitude lists and mindset exercises
  • Habit-building tools
  • Optional wellness prompts
  • Private, on-device data storage
Features
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Don’t Drink Today is a simple, private wellness companion for people choosing to step away from alcohol — one day at a time. The app is built around a simple idea: lasting change comes from understanding the root of our habits. Through daily reflection, journaling, and mindset tools, users can explore the patterns, emotions, and triggers behind alcohol use and begin building healthier ways to respond. Instead of rigid programs or labels, Don’t Drink Today encourages honest self-reflection and personal responsibility — helping you examine what’s really driving your behavior and make intentional changes over time. Features include: • A daily “Today” focus to keep your commitment simple • Personal journaling and guided self-reflection prompts • Gratitude lists and mindset exercises • Habit-building tools to support long-term change • Optional movement and wellness prompts Everything in the app is designed to support clarity, awareness, and personal growth. All data stays on your device. No accounts, no ads, and no tracking. Don’t Drink Today supports general wellness and self-reflection. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and is not a substitute for professional care.

Screenshots

Sober Lantern3 screens
Don't Drink Today4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Don't Drink Today at every 3 days against Sober Lantern's every 3 weeks. Sober Lantern's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sober Lantern against 5.0 for Don't Drink Today. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sober Lantern ships an update every 3 weeks, Don't Drink Today every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Sober Lantern versus Don't Drink Today: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSober LanternDon't Drink Today
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB62 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperCode & Cakes LLCCharlieWorks LLC

Customer experience

Sober Lantern

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

Don't Drink Today

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

In-app purchases

None

Sober Lantern

No in-app purchases

None

Don't Drink Today

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sober Lantern free?
Sober Lantern is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Don't Drink Today free?
Don't Drink Today is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sober Lantern or Don't Drink Today?
Sober Lantern and Don't Drink Today are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Sober Lantern or Don't Drink Today have ads?
Neither Sober Lantern nor Don't Drink Today shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sober Lantern or Don't Drink Today?
Sober Lantern ships an update every 3 weeks, and Don't Drink Today every 3 days. Most recently, Sober Lantern was updated on October 15, 2026 and Don't Drink Today on October 11, 2026.

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