Comparison

My Sober Path vs Hold Off

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

Head to head
About

My Sober Path

This app offers a private and secure space to support your sobriety journey. It provides daily tools, craving support, smart notifications, and progress tracking to help you build new habits and stay connected.

Highlights
  • Daily planning and mood check-ins
  • Craving coping techniques and urge surfing
  • Smart notifications and risk alerts
  • Track sober days, money saved, and health
  • Build replacement habits and track hydration
  • Journaling and identity shift tracking
  • Event planning and accountability partners
Features
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Sober Path is your private companion on the journey to sobriety. Everything stays on your device. No accounts. No servers. No judgment. DAILY TOOLS Take a morning pledge, plan your day with meal and evening scenarios, check in with your mood, and review your evening. Every day has structure. CRAVING SUPPORT When cravings hit, the Craving Tool gives you immediate coping techniques. The Urge Surfing Timer guides you through a 20-minute clinical technique. SOS mode puts your accountability partners one tap away. After the craving passes, the Craving Journal helps you build a personal playbook of what works. SMART NOTIFICATIONS Smart Morning Reminders learn your schedule. Daily Risk Scores warn you before tough days based on your own data. Trigger Prediction Alerts know your peak craving times. Missed Check-in Nudges bring you back gently. Pre-sleep reminders help you wind down. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS See your sober days, money saved, drinks avoided, and health improvements. The Financial Impact Dashboard projects your savings over 1, 5, and 10 years. Health Comparison shows how you stack up against average drinkers. Body Recovery tracks healing milestones across 8 body systems for a full year. BUILD NEW HABITS Replacement Habit Tracker lets you build positive routines with their own streaks. Hydration Tracker keeps you drinking water throughout the day — even from your Apple Watch. Weekly Challenges give each week a purpose. Habit Stacking Tips link recovery to your daily routine. REFLECT AND GROW Journal with daily prompts. Write Milestone Letters to your future self and read them when you get there. Track your Identity Shift from "trying to quit" to "someone who doesn't drink." The Evidence Journal collects hard proof that sobriety is working. Gratitude List captures what's good in 5 seconds. PLAN AHEAD Event Countdown prepares you for weddings, parties, and work dinners with automatic reminders at 7 days, 1 day, day-of, and a post-event debrief. Custom evening scenarios handle any situation. Editable daily plans adjust when life changes. STAY CONNECTED Add accountability partners and text them with one tap. Quick Text templates for check-ins, encouragement, SOS, and event support. Partner Check-in History tracks your connections over time. FIND SUPPORT Meeting Finder links to AA, SMART Recovery, Refuge Recovery, and In The Rooms. Crisis hotlines (988 and SAMHSA) are one tap away. APPLE WATCH Take your pledge, check in, view your plan, text partners, log water, and access SOS breathing — all from your wrist. PRIVACY FIRST All data stored on your device. Optional iCloud sync between your own devices. Backup and restore with encrypted files. No analytics. No tracking. No ads. Free forever. Your journey. Your data. Your path.

About

Hold Off

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Here's a secret about ADHD brains: the hit isn't in owning the thing — it's in choosing it. The "add to cart." That's why your cart has 47 things you'll never actually buy. You don't need more willpower. You need somewhere to put the urge. That's Hold Off. It blocks your shopping apps behind a calm pause, gives every temptation somewhere to go, and turns the things you DIDN'T buy into money you can see. BLOCK YOUR SHOPPING APPS Pick the apps that get you at 1am. Open one, and Bramble the bear steps in — a gentle, full-stop pause instead of the store. Getting back in isn't a reflex-tap: you take a 60-second beat in Hold Off first, then decide with a clear head whether to keep it paused or unlock it for a bit. Your app choices stay on your device — powered by Apple's Screen Time, fully private. SEND IT, DON'T SPEND IT See something you want anywhere? Hit share, and it lands on your Sleep-On-It list with the real photo and price. You keep the thrill of choosing. You skip the bill. THEN YOU SLEEP ON IT After 24 hours, Hold Off nudges you to decide — as calm-you, not 1am-you. Let it go, and the money you kept is banked as a win. Still want it? Get it — on purpose, no shame. Buying something you truly want was never the problem. HOW IT WORKS • Your shopping apps open to Bramble's pause, not the store • Tempted by something? Share it to Hold Off (or paste the link) • It lands on your Sleep-On-It list — photo, price, and all • After 24 hours, a gentle nudge: still want it? • Let it go and bank the save, or get it on purpose. Either way, you decided. YOUR WINS, HONESTLY Hold Off tracks the real prices of the things you let go — and it's honest about which savings are confirmed and which are estimates. No inflated numbers, no fake streak pressure. Just the quiet, growing proof that you can do this. MEET BRAMBLE A friendly bear whose only job is to get you through the urge. No lectures, no judgment — at 1am or any other time. BUILT FOR ADHD BRAINS Restriction alone makes ADHD brains rebel, so Hold Off pairs the block with a redirect: the urge always has somewhere to go, and the win gets rewarded instead of the slip punished. Short, kind, low-friction. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account needed. Everything stays on your device. Hold Off never sees what you browse or buy. Hold Off Premium unlocks the full toolkit with a free trial. Cancel anytime. It pays for itself the first time it stops one impulse buy. Privacy Policy: https://holdoffapp.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

My Sober Path4 screens
Hold Off4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My Sober Path at none against Hold Off's 3. My Sober Path also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Hold Off's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence 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. Hold Off sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. My Sober Path asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Sober Path ships an update every 3 weeks, Hold Off monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
My Sober Path versus Hold Off: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Sober PathHold Off
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB26 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJustin LeggettMohin Lakdawala

In-app purchases

None

My Sober Path

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Hold Off

Subscriptions2
  • Hold Off Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Hold Off Premium Yearly14 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Hold Off Premium Lifetime$129.99

Questions

Is My Sober Path free?
My Sober Path is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hold Off free?
Hold Off is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do My Sober Path or Hold Off have ads?
Neither My Sober Path nor Hold Off shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Sober Path or Hold Off?
My Sober Path ships an update every 3 weeks, and Hold Off monthly. Most recently, My Sober Path was updated on November 5, 2026 and Hold Off on October 28, 2026.

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