Comparison

SoberStack vs Semen Retention

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

Head to head
About

SoberStack

This app helps you track sobriety by monitoring days without a substance or habit. It allows you to log urges, identify triggers, and build positive habits to support your recovery journey. The focus is on personal progress without social pressure.

Highlights
  • Track sober days and streaks
  • Log urges with intensity and triggers
  • Identify relapse patterns
  • Choose coping activities
  • Build positive habits
  • Set personal recovery goals
Features
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SoberStack is a sobriety tracker built for recovery, not generic habit tracking. Track your days sober, log urges in seconds, and learn what actually triggers your relapses. When an urge hits, capture the intensity, emotion, and situation. Over time, your urge journal reveals patterns so you can get ahead of them. HOW IT WORKS • Create a streak for whatever you're quitting (alcohol, vaping/nicotine, porn, or other compulsive habits) • Watch your sober day counter and contribution graph fill in • Log urges with one tap: rate intensity, pick an emotion, note the trigger • Choose a coping activity when you need it (walk, call a friend, journal, breathe) • Review your urge journal to spot patterns • Set personal goals to remember why you started • View your full streak history: every attempt counts as progress ALSO BUILD POSITIVE HABITS Recovery isn't just about what you cut out. Start a streak for something you want to add — workout, meditation, reading, journaling — and tap once a day to mark it complete. Same contribution graph, same momentum, just pointed forward. BUILT FOR YOU No social feeds, no public profiles, no forced sharing. SoberStack keeps your recovery journey yours. WHY SOBERSTACK Most habit trackers don't account for urges, relapses, or the emotional side of quitting. SoberStack does — and it handles the things you're picking up too. Whether you're on day 1 or day 500, SoberStack helps you stay accountable, understand your triggers, and keep going. Start your first streak today.

About

Semen Retention

Features
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Not another tracker you’ll delete in a week. Built to use every day, and keep for years. A relapse ends your streak, but never erases it. Every streak you’ve ever had stays on your record, so your worst week can’t wipe out your best month. This isn’t about shame. It’s about control: your choice, not the urge’s. TRY IT FIRST Tap “Have a look around first” and use the whole app with made-up data. No sign-up. On the first screen, the founder answers what you’re thinking but won’t ask. No filter. HOW IT WORKS • Two streaks, not one. P and MO each get their own, so quitting one shows even while you work on the other. • A clean day counts on its own. Nothing to do. Relapsed? Mark it on the calendar. Ten seconds. • Your week is a ladder: one step for every day without MO. An MO day costs that one step, never the whole week. Every week starts fresh. • Urge hitting right now? Press the flame. 23 things to do instead, like breathing, games or reading, until it passes. Pressing it never counts against you. • Starting out? Tell it when you started counting and add your streaks from before. Your record doesn’t start at zero. THE FOUR TABS NOW: today, this week, this month, and the flame. HABITS: nine of them, one tick a day. Clean eating, strength training, cardio, yoga, calm day, sunlight, slept well, sober, smoke-free. Track only the ones you want. Doing things you don’t feel like doing trains the same willpower you need when an urge hits. And a bad night’s sleep makes every urge harder. Same calendar, so you see it. CHALLENGE: no P, no MO, or a number of habits a day, for as many days as you pick. Start with 3 days. Finish it and longer ones open, up to 100. At the start you pick slip days: days you’re allowed to mess up. Pick 3 and the 4th one ends it. You know the rule before you begin. RECORD: every streak, kept for good. Your longest, your current, and how many of your days were clean. WIDGETS Your week’s ladder and your habits on the Home Screen. Widgets have no PIN, so they never name what you track or show a P or MO streak. WHAT’S NOT IN IT No notifications. No coach. No community. No lectures. Nothing asks you to rate your urges. On purpose. PRIVATE, AND BUILT THAT WAY • PIN or Face ID every time it opens. • Sign in with Apple, and Hide My Email works. We never ask your name or age. • No ads, no trackers, no analytics. Nothing sold or shared. • Export your whole record to a file any time. • Delete your account inside the app. Sign back in within 30 days and it comes back. After that, it’s gone for good. THE NAME A 500-year-old yoga book, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, says: “Death comes from the falling of bindu, life from holding it.” Bindu means “the drop”: semen. Hatha yoga even has practices to make the drop rise instead of fall. That’s where Rising Drop comes from. WHO MADE THIS One guy. I looked for a tracker that didn’t make things worse. Couldn’t find one, so I built it. Anything at all: contact@therisingdrop.com. It comes to my phone, not a help desk. PLANS • Monthly or Yearly, first week free for new subscribers. Renews until you cancel. • Lifetime: pay once, never billed again. No trial. • Every plan unlocks the whole app. • Prices vary by country and are always shown in your own currency before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and the renewal is charged within 24 hours before that. Manage or cancel any time in Settings, your name, Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://therisingdrop.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://therisingdrop.com/privacy

Screenshots

SoberStack4 screens
Semen Retention4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Semen Retention at weekly against SoberStack's every 4 weeks. SoberStack's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). 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. SoberStack sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Semen Retention sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SoberStack ships an update every 4 weeks, Semen Retention weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SoberStack versus Semen Retention: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSoberStackSemen Retention
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB7 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperSpencer WaldenRishabh Tyagi

In-app purchases

4 purchases

SoberStack

One-time4
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$12.99
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  • Huge Tip$29.99
3 purchases

Semen Retention

Subscriptions2
  • Rising Drop Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Rising Drop Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Rising Drop Lifetime$39.00

Questions

Is SoberStack free?
SoberStack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Semen Retention free?
Semen Retention is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SoberStack or Semen Retention have ads?
Neither SoberStack nor Semen Retention shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SoberStack or Semen Retention?
SoberStack ships an update every 4 weeks, and Semen Retention weekly. Most recently, SoberStack was updated on October 7, 2026 and Semen Retention on October 10, 2026.

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