Every sober day is a win you can see.
One day, one star. Sober Tracker counts your days, lights up a night sky as they add up, and holds the moods you'd rather not say out loud. All on your phone. Nothing in the cloud.
- Free to start
- Works offline
- 37 languages
Streak
128 days
$3,840 saved. 128 stars earned.
one day at a time ✨
No signup
Open the app, set your sober date, you’re tracking. There’s no account, no email, nothing to remember.
No server
Your streak, reflections, and Recovery Sky sit in a local database on your phone. Not a copy in a database somewhere.
No watching
No analytics SDKs reading what you write. No ads. We literally never get your data.
Six tools, in plain English.
Each one earns its keep. The sky you’ll watch fill with stars, the reflections you’ll actually write, the toolkit you can reach in seconds when a craving hits.
The signature
Recovery Sky
Every sober day lights up a star in your own night sky. Milestone constellations crown it as you go, like the Solar Halo at one year. Stars you earn are yours forever.
Badges You Keep
More than thirty to collect, for the loud wins and the quiet ones: 24 hours, 30 days, your first reflection, the first craving you rode out. Earn one and it’s yours for good, even if your streak resets.
Reflect
Quick check-ins, freeform notes, gratitude prompts, an urge log. Spot patterns over weeks without rummaging through a notebook you’ve stopped opening.
Body Timeline
Watch your body heal across the first year. Liver, sleep, blood pressure, anxiety, immune system, cancer risk. Each milestone cites the research it’s based on.
When a Craving Hits
A craving usually peaks and fades within about ten minutes. This is what carries you through it: an urge-surfing timer built to outlast the wave, a guided breath to slow you down, and eleven ways to redirect. One tap, from any screen.
Money Saved
Log what a drink used to cost. The app shows the running total daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. Point it at a goal worth being sober for.
Every screen
Made to feel like a deep breath, not a dashboard.
Every screen carries the same rule. When you’re struggling, the app should help you feel safer, not busier.
Days, hours, minutes. Front and center.
A clean monthly view of every sober day.
A star for every sober night.
Mood, gratitude, cravings. Your own words.
Charts that turn streaks into self-knowledge.
Milestones healing in your body, on a timeline.
Recovery Sky
A night sky that fills as you stay the course.
Every sober day places a new star in your own patch of night sky. Quiet weeks turn into fields of light. Milestones crown the view with constellations, like a Solar Halo at one year and Twin Suns at two. The boring days suddenly become the ones where you watch something beautiful appear.
- A star a day
- Every sober day adds a star. An empty sky slowly becomes a field of light.
- Resets gently
- A lapse doesn’t empty your sky. The stars you earned stay yours.
- No shame
- The sky honors trying, not just succeeding.
Health Benefits
Healing keeps its own schedule.
Stop drinking and the body starts repairing inside a day. What follows is a year of what alcohol-free hours actually do, grounded in research and written like a friend telling you. Each milestone unlocks in the app on the day you reach it.
Hour 24
Cravings come in waves and recede. Sleep starts to shift. The body is busy draining what it does not want, and anxiety, oddly, begins to ease.
Hour 48
Coffee tastes louder. Smells you had stopped noticing show up again. The liver is two days into an overhaul and starting to win.
Hour 72
If withdrawal was going to be rough, this is the peak. Then it slopes down. The low-grade dehydration that ran in the background begins to fade.
Day 7
Mornings get sharper. You wake without the slow-motion fog. Skin looks like it slept seven hours and meant it.
Day 14
The baseline heartburn you had stopped noticing, gone. Focus returns in chunks rather than flashes. The voice in your head starts sounding like yours again.
Month 1
Liver fat is measurably lower, by 15% or more in some studies. The face looks rested. Friends comment. You do not tell them why.
Month 3
The brain repaints connections it had spent years dimming. Decisions feel a half-step faster. Resting heart rate quietly creeps down.
Month 6
Blood pressure reads where it was supposed to be in your twenties. Liver panels come back in range. The doctor will ask what changed.
Year 1
Your risk profile for the diseases drinking accelerates is meaningfully lower. On every actuarial table, you are someone different now.
Progress & Money
Numbers that make the invisible work visible.
Charts for moods, urges, and streaks. A money tracker that turns the $20 you didn’t spend last night into a year-end projection. You can aim it at a goal worth being sober for.
- Mood patterns
- See which days are hard before they happen.
- Savings projection
- Weekly, monthly, yearly. Pick a target.
- Your data
- Stays on your phone. Never aggregated, never sold.
“I made Sober Tracker because every app I tried wanted my email, my contacts, and a subscription before it would show me a single day count. I just wanted a clock and a little night sky. So I made one.”
The app is private by default. Your sobriety is yours. No cloud sync, no analytics on what you write, no logins. Just a calm, well-made companion that grows with you, from week one to year one.
The Maker
Indie developer · Sober Tracker
FAQ
Frequently asked. Honestly answered.
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1Is Sober Tracker really account-free?
Yes. There’s no signup, no email, no password. You open the app and you’re in. Your streak, reflections, Recovery Sky, and settings live on your device.
2Does my data ever leave my phone?
No. There’s no cloud sync, no server-side database, and no analytics tracking what you write. If you delete the app, the data is gone. You can also export everything as JSON or wipe it from Settings.
3Is the app free?
Yes. The counter, reflections, Recovery Sky, achievements, progress charts, and health timeline are all free. Premium unlocks extra themes, star palettes, and a few power tools. It exists to support development, not to gate the experience.
4What happens to my streak if I lapse?
You can log a lapse or a full relapse. Both are handled with care. The stars you’ve earned so far don’t get erased; your sky keeps them while a new streak starts counting. Recovery isn’t linear and the app isn’t built like it is.
5Will Sober Tracker shame me if I miss a day?
Never. There are no streak-loss notifications, no guilt-trip dialogs. The whole app is tuned to feel like a friend who has been there, not a tracker that judges you.
6Does it work without internet?
Yes. Everything works offline because everything is local. You don’t need a connection to log, reflect, or check your milestones.
7What is the Recovery Sky?
A night sky that fills with one star for every sober day. Milestone constellations, like the Solar Halo at one year, crown it as you go. It’s a small daily reward for showing up.
8Can I track money I’m saving?
Yes. Set what you used to spend per drink and the app projects daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly savings. You can also aim those savings at a goal you actually care about.
9Is there a coping toolkit for cravings?
Yes. Eleven evidence-based strategies, an urge-surfing timer, and a guided breathing exercise. One tap from anywhere in the app.
10Which platforms is it on?
iPhone and Android. Both versions are built from the same codebase so the experience is identical.
11What languages does it support?
The app is localized in 37 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic, and more.
12Are the health milestones based on real science?
Yes. Each milestone in the Health timeline references published medical literature on alcohol cessation, summarized in plain English.
13What happens to your body when you stop drinking alcohol?
Recovery starts within hours. Sleep stabilizes in days, the liver begins repairing inside a week, and blood pressure and inflammation drop over weeks. The full timeline — from hour 24 through year one — is built into the app’s Health Benefits section, with each milestone citing the research it’s based on.
14How long does it take for your liver to recover after quitting alcohol?
Excess liver fat begins clearing within days and is often substantially reduced within a month of consistent abstinence. Inflammation eases over weeks. If alcohol-related damage has not progressed past fatty liver, the liver can return to near-normal function in roughly two to three months. Cirrhosis can stabilize but does not reverse — abstinence remains the single biggest predictor of outcomes.
15What is PAWS (Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome)?
PAWS is the slower wave of withdrawal that arrives after the first week and can last several months. Symptoms come and go — sleep disruption, low mood, anxiety, irritability, brain fog, and sudden cravings. It is normal, it is a sign of the nervous system rewiring, and it eases with time. The Reflect tab and coping toolkit in the app are built for exactly these stretches.
16What is the “pink cloud” in sobriety?
A burst of optimism, energy, and clarity that some people experience in the first few weeks. It can feel like everything has changed for good. When it fades — and it usually does — that is not a relapse; it is the baseline returning. A quick daily reflection makes the comedown easier to spot before it knocks you off course.
17How does quitting alcohol improve sleep?
Alcohol shortens REM sleep and fragments the second half of the night. After a few alcohol-free days, total sleep time and REM both rebound. Most people notice deeper, less interrupted sleep within a week or two — and the morning fog that came with drinking eases quickly.
18Why do I get sugar cravings after quitting alcohol?
Alcohol is metabolized as sugar, and the dopamine pathways it activated react quickly to sweets. Many people swap one for the other in the first weeks. It usually fades as your blood sugar and reward chemistry rebalance. If it helps, having a sweet thing while it passes is fine — sobriety is the priority, not perfection.
19Can quitting alcohol help with weight loss?
Often, yes — but not automatically. Alcohol carries empty calories, raises cortisol, disrupts sleep, and lowers inhibitions around food. Removing it usually shifts all four. The Progress screen tracks the dollars and the daily check-ins, not the scale; the rest is between you and your body.
20How do I tell people I’m not drinking?
Short answers work best. "I’m not drinking tonight." "I’m taking a break from it." "I feel better without it." You don’t owe an explanation. If someone presses, they’re the awkward one. The Reflect tab is also a quiet place to rehearse what you want to say next time.
21Why does anxiety spike after quitting alcohol?
Alcohol calms the nervous system in the short term by boosting GABA. When it leaves, the brain over-compensates, leaving anxiety, restlessness, and sometimes panic. It peaks in the first week and tapers over weeks. Breathing exercises, urge surfing, and your normal sleep returning all help — all of which are in the app’s coping toolkit.
22Is non-alcoholic beer safe during sobriety?
It depends on the person. Some people drink non-alcoholic beer for months with no issue. For others, the smell, taste, and ritual reignite the cravings the rest of recovery quieted. There is no universal answer — pay attention to what it does to your urge log, and trust that data.
Tonight is a good night to start.
No account, no cloud, no paywall on day one. Download the app, tap the counter, and you’re on the board.