Comparison

iQ vs A New Dawn

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

Head to head
About

iQ

Features
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Make your next smoke-free day feel possible. iQ puts your quit-smoking progress, craving support, and personal goals in one placeβ€”without an account. SEE WHAT YOU’RE BUILDING Watch your smoke-free time grow on a flip clock. Track estimated cigarettes skipped and money saved, based on the smoking habits you enter. Keep your progress close with Home Screen widgets and the Apple Watch companion. HAVE A PLAN FOR CRAVINGS Open SOS when an urge arrives. Rate the craving, identify a trigger, and choose a short breathing, hydration, walking, or motivation activity. Save how it went and look back at your patterns. MAKE SMALL STEPS COUNT Earn achievement badges for time without cigarettes, support activities, and personal milestones. Core achievements are free. Choose an optional daily mission to earn XP and grow your iQ Core. Your XP stays if you miss a day. GIVE YOUR SAVINGS A PURPOSE Create a reward goal, add a photo, and see how your estimated savings bring it closer. One active goal is free. Complete it to make room for your next goal; completed goals stay in your history. EXPLORE RECOVERY MILESTONES Explore the full free timeline of general recovery estimates after quitting. These milestones are educational, not a measurement of your health; individual recovery varies. OPTIONAL PREMIUM Premium adds unlimited active goals, full craving history, 30- and 90-day insights, weekly reflections, savings forecasts, recovery visuals, and environmental impact estimates. The timer, SOS tools, recovery timeline, core badges, and daily missions remain free. MADE FOR YOUR EVERYDAY β€’ A clear design with glass details and warm gradients β€’ A shorter setup to get your quit journey started β€’ Your personal reason for quitting, close at hand β€’ Reminders and shareable progress cards β€’ Support for multiple languages Your quit data is stored on your device. No account is required. iQ is a self-management tool, not medical advice. For treatment decisions, talk with a qualified healthcare professional. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or Lifetime Premium with one payment. Premium is optional. Terms of Use: https://iqtracker.app/terms

About

A New Dawn

Features
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Watch your new day break. A New Dawn isn't another chart of what you've given up. It's a living sky that brightens with every smoke-free hour β€” from the deep indigo of your first night, through amber dawn across your early days, to full daylight as your new life takes hold. The longer you stay smoke-free, the higher your sun climbs. Light is the reward. A live timer counts every smoke-free second, minute and hour, while the money you've saved and the cigarettes you've never smoked add up beside it. A personalised recovery timeline tells your story as it unfolds β€” taste and smell sharpening, nerve endings regrowing, lungs clearing β€” always showing exactly where you are. When a craving hits, you're not left on your own. There's guided breathing built around a gently rising sun, a five-minute wait timer to ride out the urge, a quick distraction game for when you need to look away, and your own reasons kept close for the hard moments. Every milestone arrives as a sunrise you can share β€” the sky you've earned, showing the days you've won. And if you slip, A New Dawn never punishes. One cigarette doesn't erase what you've built, so you keep your streak or reset gently, your choice, no shame. A companion Apple Watch app and home- and lock-screen widgets keep your sunrise with you everywhere you go. Start with a three-day free trial. After that, a single one-time purchase of Β£8.99 unlocks everything β€” no subscription, ever. Your data stays on your device. Here's to the days ahead.

Screenshots

iQ4 screens
A New Dawn4 screens

Verdict

The call

iQ and A New Dawn are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. iQ sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and A New Dawn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
iQ versus A New Dawn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriQA New Dawn
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.017.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size39 MB7 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperOleg PlugaruNICHOLAS EDWARD WHITE

In-app purchases

3 purchases

iQ

Subscriptions2
  • iQ Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • iQ Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$59.99
1 purchases

A New Dawn

One-time1
  • A New Dawn Unlock$9.99

Questions

Is iQ free?
iQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is A New Dawn free?
A New Dawn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do iQ or A New Dawn have ads?
Neither iQ nor A New Dawn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iQ or A New Dawn?
iQ ships an update every 2 days, and A New Dawn every 2 days. Most recently, iQ was updated on November 9, 2026 and A New Dawn on November 5, 2026.

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