Comparison

Sober Help Now vs Unbottle

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

Head to head
About

Sober Help Now

This tool offers immediate assistance to overcome drinking urges. It provides actionable steps and practical exercises to help you resist cravings in vulnerable moments without tracking progress.

Highlights
  • In-the-moment support
  • Actionable steps for urges
  • 10-minute urge timer
  • Breathing prompts
  • Action checklists
  • Social scripts
  • Thought interrupters
Features
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Sober Help Now is a simple, in-the-moment support tool for people who want help resisting a drinking urge. This is not a tracker app. There are no streaks, charts, or pressure-filled progress screens. The goal is simpler: open the app when you need help, tap the button that matches what is happening, and get clear, specific actions you can take right now. Use Sober Help Now when: • You want a drink • The urge feels urgent • You feel restless • The urge is getting stronger • You are about to drink • People are drinking around you • You are alone and thinking about drinking • You are starting to justify drinking • You drank and need to reset The app includes practical tools like a 10-minute urge timer, breathing prompts, action checklists, social scripts, thought interrupters, an escalation ladder, and short distraction passages. Sober Help Now is designed to reduce friction in vulnerable moments. It gives you something concrete to do before the urge turns into action. Important: Sober Help Now is for informational and supportive use only. It is not medical advice, therapy, diagnosis, treatment, or emergency care. If you may be experiencing alcohol withdrawal, severe distress, thoughts of self-harm, or immediate danger, contact a medical professional, emergency services, or a crisis hotline right away.

About

Unbottle

Features
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Whether you are quitting drinking for good, taking a month off, or cutting down on the way to a quit date, Unbottle gives you a plan that fits, a count you can trust, and a straight answer the morning after. WORKS FOR HOW YOU ACTUALLY DRINK Logging a drink takes one tap, and each tap is one standard drink. Setup shows you what that means in beer, wine and spirits, so the count means the same thing every day. Then choose the path that fits: stop now, or step down to a quit date with a daily limit that falls as you go. Either way the numbers are yours: your drinks, your money, your days. BUILT ON WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS WORKS - Setup uses AUDIT-C, the World Health Organization's alcohol screening questions, to recommend a goal and to catch the case that matters most. Withdrawal from heavy daily drinking can be medically dangerous, so where your answers point that way, Unbottle asks you to see a doctor before you stop rather than cheering you on. - Self-monitoring does most of the work. In one of the largest randomized trials of an alcohol app, simply logging drinks accounted for most of the use and explained most of the effect, which is why logging here is one tap and every past day stays editable. - A day you drank is recorded as exactly that. Relapse research shows shame after a lapse is what turns it into a full relapse, so your total dry days and your longest run are never taken away, and nothing here scolds you. - Craving SOS is one tap from the home screen and never behind a paywall: a three-minute delay timer, paced breathing, and your own reasons read back to you. - The notification program is built for the first days, when it is hardest: a run-up before your quit date, close support through the first 72 hours, then a cadence that eases off. - Every milestone on the health recovery timeline links to its published source, including the NIAAA, the NHS and the National Cancer Institute. No source, no claim. THE MORNING AFTER Is there still alcohol in me? Unbottle answers with a deliberately pessimistic estimate built on the standard Widmark model. It assumes everything you drank arrived at once, at your last drink, so it never flatters you. It reports no legal limit and no safe figure, and it says plainly that only time makes you sober. Never use it to decide whether you can drive. FREE, FOREVER One-tap drink logging in standard drinks. A dry-day counter, money kept and drinks avoided. A calendar you can correct for any day. The morning-after estimator, in full. Craving SOS. A morning pledge and an evening check-in. Delete all of it whenever you decide. UNBOTTLE PRO The tailored notification program. The sourced health recovery timeline. More craving tools, including urge surfing and extra breathing patterns. A taper plan whose daily limit steps down to the quit day you chose. Your check-in history, read in context. NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGN-UP Nothing to sign up for, and nothing to sign in to. Your history sits under an anonymous ID rather than an email address, so nobody knows whose it is. SUBSCRIPTION Unbottle Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Annual is billed once a year after a 7-day free trial. Monthly is billed once a month. Lifetime is a single purchase with nothing to renew. Prices are shown in the App Store for your region. A subscription renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings; removing the app does not cancel it. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Privacy Policy: https://unbottle.mriy.io/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://unbottle.mriy.io/terms-of-use.html Unbottle offers general information and habit support. It is not medical advice and it is not a substitute for a doctor. If you are unwell or worried, please talk to one.

Screenshots

Sober Help Now4 screens
Unbottle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Unbottle at every 3 days against Sober Help Now's every 3 weeks. Sober Help Now's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Sober Help Now sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Unbottle sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 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 Sober Help Now against 5.0 for Unbottle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sober Help Now ships an update every 3 weeks, Unbottle every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Sober Help Now versus Unbottle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSober Help NowUnbottle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB40 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperJESSE ALLAN PRIESTSerhii Alpieiev

Customer experience

Sober Help Now

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Unbottle

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sober Help Now

One-time1
  • Sober Help Now Pro$1.99
3 purchases

Unbottle

Subscriptions2
  • Unbottle Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Unbottle Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unbottle Pro Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Sober Help Now free?
Sober Help Now is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Unbottle free?
Unbottle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sober Help Now or Unbottle?
Sober Help Now and Unbottle are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Sober Help Now or Unbottle have ads?
Neither Sober Help Now nor Unbottle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sober Help Now or Unbottle?
Sober Help Now ships an update every 3 weeks, and Unbottle every 3 days. Most recently, Sober Help Now was updated on October 24, 2026 and Unbottle on October 24, 2026.

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