Sober Garden vs Garden
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Garden
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
Sober Garden ships an update every 3 days, Garden weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sober Garden | Garden |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 凤英 刘 | LVR SERVICES LTDA |
In-app purchases
Sober Garden
- Sober Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
- Sober Pro Yearly$24.991 Year
- Sober Pro$39.99
Garden
- Garden Plus - Monthly Subscription$8.991 Month
- Garden Plus - Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Monthly Subscription$4.99
- Yearly Subscription$24.99









