Comparison

12steps.life vs RapidStep10

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

Head to head
About

12steps.life

This app provides a private space for working through 12-step programs, offering tools for daily practice, journaling, and finding meetings. It supports various fellowships and prioritizes user privacy with optional encryption. Additional features include clean time tracking and grounding exercises.

Highlights
  • Guided 12-step work
  • Journaling and gratitude lists
  • Meeting finder (in-person & online)
  • Clean time and milestone tracking
  • Privacy-focused encryption
  • Support for multiple fellowships
Features
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12steps brings the parts of the programme you work into one private place. Choose your 12-step fellowship and the language and tools adapt: step work, daily practice, journalling, meetings and support for the days that get difficult. WORK YOUR PROGRAMME Follow guided prompts through all twelve steps. Keep a journal, gratitude lists, morning intentions, daily check-ins, spot-checks and nightly inventories. Build reusable My Lists for things such as people to call or triggers to notice, then add them to Today. FIND A MEETING Search in-person and online meetings in the app. Current coverage is AA meetings in London, NA meetings across the UK and CA meetings worldwide. Search by town or postcode, use your location once if you choose, and filter by day, time, distance, format and fellowship. BRING YOUR HISTORY Moving from My Spiritual Toolkit? Import journals, spot-check inventories, nightly inventories and gratitude lists. Original dates are kept, and importing the same export again skips duplicates. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICE Personal content is encrypted before it syncs. Standard mode gives you email password reset. In Private mode the key stays on your device, so we cannot read your content or reset a forgotten password. THE DAY-TO-DAY TOOLS Track clean time and milestones without a leaderboard. Use Help Now for grounding tools and quick access to someone you trust. Share only what you choose with a sponsor, keep personal reminders, and see patterns in your own writing worked out on your device. Built for AA, NA, CA, SA, SAA, SLAA, GA, OA, DA and Al-Anon. The language and tools adapt to the fellowship you choose. The core app is free and has no adverts or tracking pixels. Supporting the app is optional at £12 a year. Works on iPhone, iPad and the web, with encrypted sync between your devices. 12steps is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by AA, NA, CA or any other fellowship. It supports recovery, but it is not treatment or a substitute for your fellowship, sponsor or professional help. If you are in danger, call your local emergency number. Terms of Use (EULA): https://12steps.life/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://12steps.life/legal/privacy

About

RapidStep10

This app offers a private, guided method for conducting daily personal inventories. It helps users process their feelings by identifying who they are upset with, what it affects, and their character defects, then suggests positive replacements. Users can save, share, or copy their completed inventories.

Highlights
  • Guided daily personal inventory
  • Character defect identification
  • Asset replacement suggestions
  • Customizable 7th-Step prayer
  • Offline functionality
  • Save, copy, and share inventories
  • Multilingual support
Features
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RapidStep10 is a fast, private way to take your daily Step 10 personal inventory. When something is bothering you, walk through it in a minute: • Who are you upset at, and what happened? • What does it affect — your pride, security, relationships, ambitions? • What are your defects of character in it — and the assets to replace them? • Pray the 7th-Step prayer, personalized to how you address your Higher Power. • Do you owe an amends? Who can you help next? Then copy or share the finished inventory, or save it to your private history to look back on. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything you enter stays on your device. No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking, and nothing is ever sent to a server. The app works completely offline. BUILT FOR DAILY USE • A quick, guided form modeled on the Step 10 spot-check inventory • 80+ character defects paired with their opposite assets • The 7th-Step prayer, with the wording you choose for your Higher Power • Save, revisit, copy, and share past inventories • Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Arabic, and Hebrew (right-to-left supported) RapidStep10 is an independent personal tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

Screenshots

12steps.life4 screens
RapidStep104 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RapidStep10 at none against 12steps.life's 1. 12steps.life's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). 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. 12steps.life sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $12.00 per year. RapidStep10 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 12steps.life against 5.0 for RapidStep10. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

12steps.life ships an update every 8 days, RapidStep10 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
12steps.life versus RapidStep10: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter12steps.lifeRapidStep10
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCommunity Tech LtdDovid Cohen

Customer experience

12steps.life

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

RapidStep10

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

12steps.life

Subscriptions1
  • 12steps Supporter$12.001 Year
None

RapidStep10

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 12steps.life free?
12steps.life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RapidStep10 free?
RapidStep10 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 12steps.life or RapidStep10?
12steps.life and RapidStep10 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do 12steps.life or RapidStep10 have ads?
Neither 12steps.life nor RapidStep10 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 12steps.life or RapidStep10?
12steps.life ships an update every 8 days, and RapidStep10 every 3 weeks. Most recently, 12steps.life was updated on October 24, 2026 and RapidStep10 on October 31, 2026.

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