Comparison

Second Sponsor 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

Second Sponsor

This AI-powered companion supports individuals in 12-step recovery programs with daily emotional check-ins and progress tracking. It helps users monitor their journey, reflect on triggers, and cultivate gratitude. Data is kept private and secure.

Highlights
  • AI-assisted recovery companion
  • Daily emotional check-ins
  • Meeting tracker
  • 12-step progress monitoring
  • Reflection prompts (triggers, gratitude, insights)
  • Secure and private data storage
Features
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Second Sponsor is an AI-assisted companion for individuals in 12-step recovery programs. It provides daily emotional check-ins, a simple meeting tracker, 12-step progress monitoring, and concise reflections on triggers, gratitude, and personal insights. Data is securely stored and never shared. It is not a substitute for professional mental health or medical care. It does not provide medical advice or diagnoses of any kind. Users should seek licensed professionals for mental health or medical treatment.

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

Second Sponsor4 screens
Sober Squad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Second Sponsor at 15.1 against Sober Squad's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Second Sponsor versus Sober Squad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSecond SponsorSober Squad
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB6 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperSecond Sponsor LLCAPPsynth Software

In-app purchases

None

Second Sponsor

No in-app purchases

None

Sober Squad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Second Sponsor free?
Second Sponsor 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 Second Sponsor or Sober Squad have ads?
Neither Second Sponsor nor Sober Squad shows ads.

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