Comparison

Recovery Transparency vs Work the 12 Steps

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

Head to head
About

Recovery Transparency

This app supports individuals in 12-step recovery programs by offering tools for tracking progress, journaling with AI insights, and connecting with sponsors. It provides features like daily check-ins, assessments, and messaging to foster accountability and self-awareness.

Highlights
  • Daily check-ins
  • AI journal analysis
  • Fourth step worksheets
  • Sponsor-sponsee messaging
  • Service work search
  • Weekly assessments
Features
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Recovery Transparency is a modern companion to the 12-step recovery you already work — built to deepen your program, not replace it. Track your progress, work your steps, and see how far you've come, one honest day at a time. Recovery is a daily practice, and staying accountable to it is the work of a lifetime. Recovery Transparency gives you the tools to do exactly that: honest daily check-ins, guided Fourth Step inventories, and a private record of your growth that only you control. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Recovery Garden — Watch your progress take root. Earn milestone badges as you check in, journal, work your steps, and attend meetings. • Daily Check-Ins — Track your character defects and principles and see honest patterns emerge over time. • AI-Guided Fourth Step — Private, compassionate analysis of your resentment, fear, and relationship inventories, built on the RTI™ framework. • Weekly Assessment — Measure your recovery across key areas and follow your growth week to week. • Journaling & Gratitude — Reflect each day, with optional AI insights. • Smart Reminders — Gentle nudges for your check-in, gratitude list, and journal, plus a notification the moment you earn a new badge. • Connection — Sponsor and sponsee messaging, group support chats, and shareable profile cards. BUILT ON A PROVEN FOUNDATION Recovery Transparency honors the 12-step tradition and strengthens it with structure, accountability, and insight. It is not affiliated with any specific fellowship or organization. YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS Your inventories and reflections belong to you. Sensitive step work stays private and under your control. START WITH A FREE WEEK Try everything free for 7 days. After your trial: • Gold — $6.99/week or $24.99/month • Platinum — $8.99/week or $34.99/month Subscriptions are auto-renewable. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): [paste your Terms URL] Privacy Policy: [paste your Privacy Policy URL]

About

Work the 12 Steps

This app facilitates peer support for individuals working through the Twelve Steps of recovery. It helps sponsors and sponsees track progress, milestones, and connections within their recovery community. Designed for privacy, it keeps essential recovery relationships close without intrusive features.

Highlights
  • Step progress tracking
  • Sobriety milestones
  • Anniversary tracking
  • Meeting management
  • Recovery lineage
  • Private by design
Features
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Recovery is passed person to person. Work the 12 Steps is a private app for sponsors, sponsees, and recovery friends working the Twelve Steps together. It doesn't replace the relationship at the heart of recovery — it keeps that relationship close. Sponsorship has always been carried through phone calls, coffee meetings, and late nights working the Steps. That tradition doesn't need fixing. This app gives you one place to support it: step progress, sobriety milestones and anniversaries, meetings, and the recovery lineage that connects everyone in the chain. FOR SPONSORS Guide others through the Steps with everything you need in one place. FOR SPONSEES Work the Steps with your sponsor, with your progress and commitments easy to follow. FOR RECOVERY FRIENDS Stay connected to the people walking alongside you. NEW TO RECOVERY Looking for a way in? Start here, and find the next right step. PRIVATE BY DESIGN First name and last initial only. No feeds, no streaks, no gamification, no surveillance. Your recovery is yours. The work is still yours, your sponsor's, and your Higher Power's. This just helps keep those connections close. IMPORTANT Work the 12 Steps is a peer support and recovery-tracking tool. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and is not a substitute for professional care. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or before making any health decisions.

Screenshots

Recovery Transparency4 screens
Work the 12 Steps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Work the 12 Steps at none against Recovery Transparency's 4. Work the 12 Steps also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Recovery Transparency sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Work the 12 Steps asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Recovery Transparency against 5.0 for Work the 12 Steps. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recovery Transparency ships an update every 3 weeks, Work the 12 Steps every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Recovery Transparency versus Work the 12 Steps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecovery TransparencyWork the 12 Steps
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB4 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJeremy HeydonPhilip Mount

Customer experience

Recovery Transparency

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Work the 12 Steps

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Recovery Transparency

Subscriptions4
  • Gold Weekly7 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Platinum Weekly7 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • Gold Monthly7 Days trial$24.991 Month
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  • Platinum Monthly7 Days trial$34.991 Month
None

Work the 12 Steps

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recovery Transparency free?
Recovery Transparency is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Work the 12 Steps free?
Work the 12 Steps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Recovery Transparency or Work the 12 Steps?
Recovery Transparency and Work the 12 Steps are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Recovery Transparency or Work the 12 Steps have ads?
Neither Recovery Transparency nor Work the 12 Steps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recovery Transparency or Work the 12 Steps?
Recovery Transparency ships an update every 3 weeks, and Work the 12 Steps every 4 days. Most recently, Recovery Transparency was updated on October 5, 2026 and Work the 12 Steps on October 10, 2026.

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