Comparison

Sober Way vs 12steps.life

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

Head to head
About

Sober Way

This app provides a comprehensive recovery companion based on the 12-Step program. It offers tools for tracking sobriety, building habits, analyzing triggers, and connecting with a supportive community. Users can personalize their experience and gain insights into their progress towards an addiction-free lifestyle.

Highlights
  • Sobriety tracker
  • 12 Steps to Recovery tools
  • Motivation and reminders
  • Financial and time savings calculator
  • Daily journal and trigger analysis
  • Community support
  • Customizable experience
Features
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Sober Way is more than just a sobriety counter. It’s a complete recovery companion built on the proven 12-Step program, offering practical tools and daily support to help you stay sober and transform your life. With Sober Way, you don’t just track sober days — you also build new habits, analyze triggers, and find motivation within a growing community of people walking the same path to freedom. This app gives you access to the 12 Steps framework and tools that guide you step by step toward a healthier, addiction-free lifestyle. Key Features of Sober Way: • Sobriety Tracker Track your progress, celebrate milestones, and see how far you’ve come. • 12 Steps to Recovery Access the full 12-Step program and tools designed to help you reflect, recognize patterns, and move forward with clarity. • Motivation & Reminders Add your reasons, photos, and notes to stay inspired and focused on why you chose sobriety. • Financial & Time Calculator See how much money and time you save by quitting your addiction. • Daily Journal & Trigger Analysis Write down your thoughts and track events that made your day easier or harder. • Community Support Connect with like-minded people, share experiences, and receive encouragement from others on the same journey. • Customizable Experience Set your sobriety date, choose the addiction you’re working on, configure reminders, and get personalized end-of-day summaries. Core features are free. For a deeper recovery journey, you can upgrade to Sober Way Plus and unlock: • Extended access to 12-Step tools • Advanced reports & insights • Premium personalization options Subscriptions are billed via App Store and renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage your subscription in account settings. Privacy policy: https://novadosoft.com/privacy-policy-bro/ Terms of use: https://novadosoft.com/terms-of-use/

About

12steps.life

This app provides a private space for working through 12-step programs, offering tools for daily practice, journaling, and finding meetings. It supports various fellowships and prioritizes user privacy with optional encryption. Additional features include clean time tracking and grounding exercises.

Highlights
  • Guided 12-step work
  • Journaling and gratitude lists
  • Meeting finder (in-person & online)
  • Clean time and milestone tracking
  • Privacy-focused encryption
  • Support for multiple fellowships
Features
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12steps brings the parts of the programme you work into one private place. Choose your 12-step fellowship and the language and tools adapt: step work, daily practice, journalling, meetings and support for the days that get difficult. WORK YOUR PROGRAMME Follow guided prompts through all twelve steps. Keep a journal, gratitude lists, morning intentions, daily check-ins, spot-checks and nightly inventories. Build reusable My Lists for things such as people to call or triggers to notice, then add them to Today. FIND A MEETING Search in-person and online meetings in the app. Current coverage is AA meetings in London, NA meetings across the UK and CA meetings worldwide. Search by town or postcode, use your location once if you choose, and filter by day, time, distance, format and fellowship. BRING YOUR HISTORY Moving from My Spiritual Toolkit? Import journals, spot-check inventories, nightly inventories and gratitude lists. Original dates are kept, and importing the same export again skips duplicates. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICE Personal content is encrypted before it syncs. Standard mode gives you email password reset. In Private mode the key stays on your device, so we cannot read your content or reset a forgotten password. THE DAY-TO-DAY TOOLS Track clean time and milestones without a leaderboard. Use Help Now for grounding tools and quick access to someone you trust. Share only what you choose with a sponsor, keep personal reminders, and see patterns in your own writing worked out on your device. Built for AA, NA, CA, SA, SAA, SLAA, GA, OA, DA and Al-Anon. The language and tools adapt to the fellowship you choose. The core app is free and has no adverts or tracking pixels. Supporting the app is optional at £12 a year. Works on iPhone, iPad and the web, with encrypted sync between your devices. 12steps is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by AA, NA, CA or any other fellowship. It supports recovery, but it is not treatment or a substitute for your fellowship, sponsor or professional help. If you are in danger, call your local emergency number. Terms of Use (EULA): https://12steps.life/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://12steps.life/legal/privacy

Screenshots

Sober Way4 screens
12steps.life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: 12steps.life at none against Sober Way's shown. 12steps.life also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 4 weeks) and device support (4 vs 1). Sober Way's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Sober Way sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and 12steps.life sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $12.00 per year. 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 — 5.0 for Sober Way against 5.0 for 12steps.life. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sober Way ships an update every 4 weeks, 12steps.life every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Sober Way versus 12steps.life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSober Way12steps.life
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB15 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperDzimitry HutkinCommunity Tech Ltd

Customer experience

Sober Way

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

12steps.life

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Sober Way

Subscriptions5
  • Premium weekly2 variants$2.997 Days
  • Premium weekly1 Month trial$2.997 Days
  • Premium weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
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  • Premium yearly1 Month trial2 variants$99.991 Year
  • Premium yearly2 variants$99.991 Year
1 purchases

12steps.life

Subscriptions1
  • 12steps Supporter$12.001 Year

Questions

Is Sober Way free?
Sober Way is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 12steps.life free?
12steps.life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sober Way or 12steps.life?
Sober Way and 12steps.life are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Sober Way or 12steps.life have ads?
Sober Way shows ads; 12steps.life does not.
Which is updated more often, Sober Way or 12steps.life?
Sober Way ships an update every 4 weeks, and 12steps.life every 8 days. Most recently, Sober Way was updated on October 16, 2026 and 12steps.life on October 24, 2026.

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