# Sober Time review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Sobriety counter with milestones, journaling and a recovery forum Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Sober Time is a sobriety tracker for iPhone and Android that counts time since you quit, down to the second, for as many addictions as you want to track. It adds milestone badges, journaling, a money-saved counter and a health timeline, plus a community forum, Talking Sober, inside the app. - **Category:** Habit Trackers - **Made by:** Sociosoftware LLC - **Website:** https://sobertime.app - **Runs on:** iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you need medical or treatment help, as it's a tracker. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Sober Time has a free plan, and paid plans start at $4.99 per month, or $29.99 per year. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free to download with in-app purchases for Premium; the listings do not spell out which features are free. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Free download on iPhone and Android. The listings do not say which features need Premium. | | Premium Monthly | $4.99 per month | Monthly subscription as listed in the US App Store in-app purchases. | | Premium Annual | $29.99 per year | Yearly subscription; the App Store listing shows annual purchases at $29.99, $39.99 and $49.99. | Read from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sober-time-sobriety-counter/id1158895079 on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Sober Time before buying. ## Key features - **Real-time sober counter:** Shows time clean down to the second for any number of addictions, with more than 10 display modes such as total days or heartbeats. - **Milestones and goals:** Built-in goals and milestone badges, with the option to add your own goals and get a notification when you reach them. - **Journaling and relapse notes:** Journal prompts for reflection, and relapses can be recorded with notes. - **Money saved and health timeline:** Enter what you used to spend to see savings grow; a timeline shows general estimates of how the body recovers. - **Talking Sober community:** A forum inside the app, cared for by volunteer moderators, that you can read without registering an account. - **Widgets and Apple Watch:** Home-screen widgets and an Apple Watch app show your time at a glance. ## Good for - People in recovery who want a running count and milestones - Anyone who wants peer support in the same app as the counter ## Worth knowing - The listings do not say which features are free and which need Premium. - The Google Play listing shows ads and in-app purchases from $0.99 to $49.99 per item. - It is a tracking and community app, not a medical or treatment service. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Sober Time counts the time since you quit, to the second, for each addiction you track, with milestone badges, a journal and a community forum. The listings don't say which features are free, and Premium is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year. - **Value for money: B.** $29.99 a year is about $2.50 a month, close to the $2.49 where the cheaper quarter ends. Monthly is $4.99, the middle. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free to download, but the listings don't say which features need Premium. Google Play shows ads. - **Features: C.** A live counter, milestones, journaling, money saved, a health timeline and a forum. It tracks and supports but it isn't a treatment service. - **Ease of use: B.** No verified store rating on record, the site's 4.8 is the maker's claim. Enter a quit date and it counts. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** iPhone and Android with widgets and Apple Watch. No web or desktop version. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Sober Time's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among habit trackers - Sober Time's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 19 of the 64 other habit trackers we grade, and level with 14. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 38 of 64) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $2.50 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $3.33 for the category: 13 of the 38 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 7 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/habit-trackers ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** A habit tracker at its plainest is a list of habits, a tick for each day and a count of the streak. You could make the core of Sober Time for yourself: habit tracking, daily notes and goals. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. At $29.99 a year it costs less than the weekend it would take to replace, which is the argument for keeping it. - You could make: Habit tracking, daily notes and goals: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A members' space with posts, chat and events that people keep coming back to. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: Hooks into the device itself: an Apple Watch app and widgets. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.9 out of 5 from 43,477 ratings in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1158895079 **Tags:** Habit tracking, Daily notes, Goals, Community ## Alternatives - [I Am Sober](https://toolgpa.com/tools/i-am-sober): Sobriety counter with daily pledges and a recovery community. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/i-am-sober-vs-sober-time) - [Smoke Free](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smoke-free): Quit-smoking app with progress tracking, missions and an AI coach. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/smoke-free-vs-sober-time) - [Reframe](https://toolgpa.com/tools/reframe): Alcohol-reduction app with a 160-day program and community. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/reframe-vs-sober-time) - [QuitNow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quitnow): Quit-smoking tracker with a community chat and health milestones. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/quitnow-vs-sober-time) - [Quitzilla](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quitzilla): Quit tracker that counts sober time and money saved per habit. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/quitzilla-vs-sober-time) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://sobertime.app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sober-time-sobriety-counter/id1158895079 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sociosoft.sobertime&hl=en&gl=US Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sober-time Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).