Comparison

Sober Lantern vs Sober Squad

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

Sober Squad

Features
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Recovery isn't supposed to be a stranger app. It's the people who text you on a Saturday night. The friend who knows your sobriety date by heart. The crew that shows up. Sober Squad is where you build that. Not a global feed of usernames. Not another counter that just adds a number to your screen. A private, local squad of real sober friends — the ones who'll meet you for coffee on day 47, hike on day 180, and show up for your one-year chip. • YOUR SQUAD Invite the sober people you already know. Or grow a new crew, one trusted person at a time. Chat lives inside your squad — no public feed, no algorithm, no strangers. Up to 15 members per squad. • SQUAD RING — A HEALTHKIT CHALLENGE, TOGETHER The signature feature you won't find anywhere else. Spin up a shared Health ring challenge with your squad — workouts, miles, mindful minutes — and watch each other's progress fill the ring in real time. Recovery is physical. Move with people who get it. • MILESTONES THAT MEAN SOMETHING 30 days. 90 days. One year. Five years. Sober Squad celebrates the milestones that matter, the moment they happen — and tells your squad so they can show up. No more posting your chip into the void. • LOCAL EVENTS Sober coffee. Sunday hikes. AA meetings. Anniversary dinners. Plan and RSVP to real-life events with the people in your squad. Recovery is local — your app should be too. • PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your sobriety date, your milestones, your health data — they stay yours. Health data never leaves your phone. No ads, no analytics SDKs, no selling anything to anyone. Read the privacy policy and you'll see the same thing in plain English. • APPLE WATCH + WIDGETS Glance at your day count and ring progress from the Home Screen or your wrist. Lock Screen widget, Home Screen widgets, and a Watch complication that puts your squad on your face. — BUILT DIFFERENT — Every other sobriety app is one of two things: a lonely counter, or a global stranger feed. Sober Squad is neither. It's the small, local crew you choose — backed by Apple Health, milestones, and the kind of accountability that only works between people who actually know each other. • No public profiles. No stranger feed. No DMs from randoms. • Built around your local crew, not a worldwide username list. • Apple Health integration — recovery + fitness, not just a number. • Milestones, events, and chat in one place. • Made by someone who's been on the other side of the screen. Privacy Policy: https://sobersquad.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://sobersquad.app/terms

Screenshots

Sober Lantern3 screens
Sober Squad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Sober Lantern at 3 against Sober Squad's 1. Sober Lantern also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Sober Lantern versus Sober Squad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSober LanternSober Squad
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB6 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperCode & Cakes LLCAPPsynth Software

In-app purchases

None

Sober Lantern

No in-app purchases

None

Sober Squad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sober Lantern free?
Sober Lantern is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sober Squad free?
Sober Squad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sober Lantern or Sober Squad have ads?
Neither Sober Lantern nor Sober Squad shows ads.

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