Comparison

AABlueBook vs Kubo Journal

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

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About

AABlueBook

This AI-powered companion offers a comprehensive toolkit for sobriety and recovery. It features an interactive Big Book with a unique historical dictionary, personalized AI coaching, gamified challenges, and an intelligent meeting finder. Access all AA literature and digital sobriety chips to support your journey.

Highlights
  • AI Recovery Hub with personalized recommendations
  • Interactive Big Book with 1930s dictionary
  • Intelligent meeting finder with AI assistance
  • Gamified recovery challenges and leaderboards
  • 24/7 AI Recovery Coach for support
  • Complete AA literature and daily reflections
  • Digital sobriety chips and milestone tracking
Features
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YOUR COMPLETE AI-POWERED AA RECOVERY COMPANION Number 1 AA Big Book App with 100,000+ Members The only AA app you'll ever need. Interactive Big Book with the ONLY 1930s dictionary, AI Recovery Hub, 24/7 coach, gamification, and community. FREE 7-DAY TRIAL - No Credit Card Required --- AI RECOVERY HUB (NEW) Your personalized recovery command center: - Dashboard learns YOUR patterns - Recommends Big Book chapters from journal analysis - Personalized daily affirmations - Proactive check-ins during struggles - Daily challenges with bonus rewards Like having a 24/7 sponsor who knows your story. --- INTERACTIVE BIG BOOK - Most Advanced Reading Experience INDUSTRY-EXCLUSIVE 1930s DICTIONARY (No other app has this) - 100+ terms from 1930s era explained instantly - Tap any word for definition - Historical context for dated language - Understand what Bill W. actually meant in 1939 Complete Big Book Features: - All 42 stories from 4th Edition - 5-color highlighting system - Unlimited bookmarks and annotations - Promise and prayer tooltips - Character profiles (Bill W., Dr. Bob, Jim, etc.) - Professional audio narration with speed control - Full-text search across 575 pages - Export highlights to PDF - Light, Dark, Sepia themes - Dyslexia-friendly fonts - Complete offline access --- INTELLIGENT MEETING FINDER (NEW) AI-powered meeting recommendations: - Learns your attendance patterns and preferences - Recommends meetings that fit YOUR schedule - Coverage: 100+ major US cities (LA, NYC, Chicago, SF, Boston, Houston, Miami, Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta, Seattle, San Diego) - One-tap calling to local AA offices - Worldwide online meetings - GPS "Near Me" search --- STREAKQUEST GAMIFICATION Make recovery engaging: - Daily check-in streaks - Boss battles at milestones (30, 60, 90 days, 1 year) - 800+ AA History trivia questions - Global leaderboards with 100,000+ members - 100+ achievement badges - Rewards and custom avatars "This feature keeps me accountable daily. 500+ day streak!" - Real user --- AI RECOVERY COACH - 24/7 SUPPORT Your personal recovery assistant: - Personalized recovery guidance - Step-specific advice when stuck - Crisis support anytime, day or night - Pattern recognition in your journey - Guided meditations for cravings - Real-time craving management strategies "Helped me at 2 AM when I had no one else. Saved my sobriety." - Real user --- COMPLETE AA LITERATURE 12 Steps and 12 Traditions: - All Steps and Traditions with commentary - Study guides and AI-generated questions - Audio narration - Highlighting and bookmarks Daily Reflections: - 365 daily meditations - Morning push reminders - Searchable archive by topic --- DIGITAL SOBRIETY CHIPS - 11 collectible chips (24 hours to 10+ years) - Animated reveals at milestones - Milestone push notifications - Share achievements - Gallery view --- SPONSOR CONNECTION - AI-powered matching algorithm - Filter by experience and location - Private messaging (encrypted) - Training modules with certification - Anonymous profiles --- PRICING Monthly: $1.99 per month Annual: $19.99 per year (Save 17% - just $1.67/month) FREE 7-DAY TRIAL - No Credit Card - Cancel Anytime --- SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Title: AA BlueBook Premium Monthly - Length: 1 month - Price: $1.99 per month Title: AA BlueBook Premium Annual - Length: 1 year - Price: $19.99 per year (equivalent to $1.67 per month) Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.aabluebook.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.aabluebook.com/privacy-policy

About

Kubo Journal

This app offers a unique journaling experience focused on gratitude, reflection, and releasing worries. It helps users change their lives by directing attention, letting go of what they can't control, and rehearsing the person they are becoming. Features include guided reflections and a 'release box' for sealed notes.

Highlights
  • Gratitude entries
  • Guided reflection tools
  • Sealed release box for worries
  • Future self writing
  • Scene revision
  • PDF export of journal
Features
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Most journals ask you to record your life. Kubo helps you rewrite it. Kubo is a new kind of journaling practice built on an old understanding — one carried by the great teachers of imagination and manifestation, twelve-step rooms, and now echoed by the science of neuroplasticity: you don't change your life by thinking harder about what's wrong. You change it by choosing where your attention lives, releasing what you can't control, and rehearsing the person you're becoming. What you repeat, you rewire. Kubo gives that repetition a home. THE RITUAL Write what's weighing on you. Seal it into your box. Let it go. Sealed notes can't be reread or edited — that's the point. Recovery rooms have passed this practice down for generations: put it in the box, turn it over, stop carrying what was never yours to carry. A month later, Kubo quietly asks how heavy it feels now — without opening a word. Most things get lighter. Not magic; just what happens when a mind finally stops rehearsing a worry. A COMPLETE DAILY PRACTICE • GRATITUDE — appreciation is the fastest way to change the way you feel, and the way you feel shapes what you notice, choose, and attract into your days. Quick entries for what's good now and what you're looking forward to. • REFLECT — free writing plus guided tools like Reframe, built on a simple truth: your thoughts are not facts. Catch the story you're telling yourself and trade it for a truer, kinder one. • RELEASE — the box. Seal a worry away and choose when it opens: thirty days, a year, or a date that matters to you. Kubo holds it, unreadable, until then — and when the seal breaks, see with your own eyes how far you've come. TOOLS FOR BECOMING (Premium) • FUTURE SELF — write from the life you're creating, as the person already living it. • REVISION — revisit a scene and rewrite it the way it should have gone. Imagination teachers have sworn by this practice for a century; your brain rehearses what you vividly imagine. • ENVISION — dwell in the end result until it feels like home. • Plus expanded prompt packs, up to 10 photos per entry, Insights — including proof of how much lighter your released worries actually got — and a beautiful PDF book of your year. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No servers. No analytics. Your journal lives on your device and in your own iCloud, and sealed notes are encrypted so no one — including us — can read them. Optional Face ID lock. FREE FOREVER Unlimited gratitude, reflections, sealing and release with timed opens, streaks, and a photo per entry. Some people call theirs a worry box. Some call it a God box, a serenity box, a manifestation practice, or simply letting go. Whatever you call it, this much is true: the life you want starts with what you put down — and what you pick up instead. Kubo is a journaling tool, not medical or mental-health care. Privacy Policy: https://deanhuff.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

AABlueBook3 screens
Kubo Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: AABlueBook at 9 against Kubo Journal's 1. AABlueBook also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. AABlueBook sells 20 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Kubo Journal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. 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 AABlueBook against 5.0 for Kubo Journal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AABlueBook has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AABlueBook versus Kubo Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAABlueBookKubo Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAABLUEBOOK Inc.Dean Huff

Customer experience

AABlueBook

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Kubo Journal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

20 purchases

AABlueBook

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$19.991 Year
One-time18
  • Serenity Goddess - 1 Year$1.99
  • 4th Step Inventory$2.99
  • Recovery Avatars$4.99
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  • Casual Avatars$4.99
  • Professional Avatars$4.99
  • Diversity Avatars$4.99
  • Creative Avatars$4.99
  • Spiritual Avatars$4.99
  • Fitness Avatars$4.99
  • Premium Backgrounds$4.99
  • Premium Avatars$4.99
  • VIP All Avatars$19.99
  • Recovery Runner$19.99
  • 3,250 Coins$24.99
  • Arcade Champion$29.99
  • Streak Master$39.99
  • 6,500 Coins$44.99
  • 13,500 Coins$79.99
3 purchases

Kubo Journal

Subscriptions2
  • Kubo Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Kubo Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Kubo Premium Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is AABlueBook free?
AABlueBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kubo Journal free?
Kubo Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, AABlueBook or Kubo Journal?
AABlueBook and Kubo Journal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do AABlueBook or Kubo Journal have ads?
Neither AABlueBook nor Kubo Journal shows ads.

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