Comparison

Sober Garden vs Garden

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

Head to head
About

Sober Garden

This app offers a gentle approach to breaking unwanted habits and resisting urges. It provides tools to track clean days, visualize progress through a growing garden, and understand the financial and time savings from quitting. Daily check-ins and home screen widgets help maintain motivation.

Highlights
  • Track clean days and build streaks
  • Urge Rescue for craving moments
  • Visual recovery garden growth
  • Daily check-ins and mood tracking
  • Monitor saved money and time
  • Home screen and Apple Watch widgets
  • Private, account-free design
Features
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Sober Garden is a gentle quit tracker that helps you break unwanted habits, resist urges, and grow visible progress day by day. Whether you are trying to quit smoking, alcohol, porn, social media, junk food, or any habit that no longer serves you, Sober Garden gives you a calm place to stay on track without pressure or shame. TRACK YOUR CLEAN DAYS See how long you have stayed away from a habit. Build streaks, celebrate milestones, and watch your progress become easier to understand over time. BEAT URGES IN HARD MOMENTS When a craving hits, open Urge Rescue for quick grounding prompts, calming guidance, and simple actions that help you get through the moment. GROW YOUR RECOVERY GARDEN Your progress is not just a number. As you keep going, your garden grows with you, turning each clean day into a visible sign of recovery. CHECK IN DAILY Record how you feel, notice patterns, and build a small daily ritual that helps you stay connected to your goal. SEE MONEY AND TIME SAVED Understand what your habit used to cost you. Track saved money, saved time, and the progress you are building back into your life. STAY VISIBLE WITH WIDGETS Keep your streak and progress on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch, so motivation is always close. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Sober Garden is designed to work without an account. Your habit data stays on your device. Sober Garden is for anyone who wants a calm, private, and judgment-free way to quit bad habits and rebuild a sense of control. Start small. Stay kind to yourself. Grow one clean day at a time. Legal Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/sober-termsofus Privacy Policy:https://sites.google.com/view/sober-privacy

About

Garden

Features
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Garden turns staying sober into something you can see. Every day you check in, a flower grows. Over weeks and months those days become a garden you can look at: quiet proof of what you've done. Garden needs a Garden Plus subscription. Start with a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. HOW IT WORKS Pick the habit you want to leave behind and answer a few questions about your reasons. You get a plan that starts from your own answers. Then check in each day; it takes seconds. A flower is planted, your counter keeps climbing, and the garden fills in. WHAT'S INSIDE • A living garden: one flower for every day you check in, from 10 painted species • Sober counter: days, hours and minutes since you started • Daily check-in: mark the day, and add how you felt if you want to • Calendar: every day laid out; tap one to see its flower and your mood • 30 milestones: from your first day to ten years, each one celebrated • Petals: collect one for every hour you show up, and fill your jar • Money saved: what you're keeping, by week, month and year • A daily reflection to carry with you • Hope: an AI companion to talk to when cravings hit • Your journey: correct your start date, or begin a new streak when you need to. Your garden, check-ins and milestones stay NEED HELP NOW? The "Need help now?" button never needs a subscription. It opens crisis lines for your region, or a directory to find one, and a short breathing exercise that may help you get through a craving. It is free for everyone. HABITS YOU CAN TRACK Alcohol · Tobacco · Vaping · Sugar · Caffeine · Social Media · Gambling and more: 40 habits, each with the same counter, garden and milestones. HONEST ABOUT HARD DAYS Relapsed? Say so. That day plants nothing, but your garden keeps every flower you already grew and your milestones stay yours. When you're ready, begin a new streak. Recovery isn't a clean line, and this app doesn't pretend otherwise. YOURS, ON YOUR DEVICE No account. No sign-up. No email address. Your answers, check-ins, moods and garden are saved on your phone. When you message Hope, that conversation is sent to our AI provider to write a reply. The app also shares anonymous usage statistics to help us improve it. Details are in the Privacy Policy. Available in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Garden is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical condition. Talk to a doctor or other health professional for medical advice, and before stopping alcohol or other substances, because stopping suddenly can be dangerous. Garden is not an emergency service. GARDEN PLUS Garden Plus subscription required after a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. The free trial is for eligible new subscribers, and the monthly plan has no free trial. Prices are shown in the app before you subscribe. The help button and crisis lines are free for everyone, with no subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, or when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the free trial or the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple Account settings. To avoid a charge, cancel at least 24 hours before the free trial ends. Privacy Policy: https://lucasribeiro.dev/garden/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ One day at a time.

Screenshots

Sober Garden4 screens
Garden4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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 Garden sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Garden sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sober Garden ships an update every 3 days, Garden weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sober Garden versus Garden: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSober GardenGarden
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB73 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer凤英 刘LVR SERVICES LTDA

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sober Garden

Subscriptions2
  • Sober Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Sober Pro Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Sober Pro$39.99
4 purchases

Garden

Subscriptions2
  • Garden Plus - Monthly Subscription$8.991 Month
  • Garden Plus - Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time2
  • Monthly Subscription$4.99
  • Yearly Subscription$24.99

Questions

Is Sober Garden free?
Sober Garden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Garden free?
Garden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sober Garden or Garden have ads?
Neither Sober Garden nor Garden shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sober Garden or Garden?
Sober Garden ships an update every 3 days, and Garden weekly. Most recently, Sober Garden was updated on October 28, 2026 and Garden on October 31, 2026.

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