Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits (sobernotsorry.app)
I made Sober not Sorry, a clean and simple iOS tracker to help quit bad habits — alcohol, smoking, or anything else.
Open it → log your start date → it tracks your streak. No ads, no sign-up, no subscriptions.
I built it because most “sober” apps felt cluttered or too motivational. This one just quietly tracks progress and stays out of the way.
Would love feedback — especially from people who use streak or sobriety trackers.
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[ 236 ms ] story [ 2924 ms ] threadAnd there are other free apps that do the same.
All I can remember was that smoking was the most difficult habit to quit because I was a chain smoker and the withdrawals are no joke. So yeah if you want to start on this sober journey, just be ready.
This is a cool app, will download.
This is an area in which I have some experience (45 years clean). I've written a bunch of Recovery-assistive stuff, in my time, and continue to do so.
In my experience, if you are a true addict (as opposed to someone that has developed bad habits, but doesn't have the obsessive/compulsive disorder), then no app will work. It's a fart against a tornado. Those folks are a minority, though. I think most people could use this app.
But I feel as if everyone can benefit from self-discipline, and apps like this, work like fitness trackers. That can make major differences for many folks.
However, there's no "silver bullet." Self-Discipline is hard work. A lot of people want "easy solutions," and they don't really exist (except in fiction). Apps like this, simply help to focus and optimize that hard work.
After looking at it, a few pieces of feedback and a request:
-on the Health tab it cuts the title off (iPhone 15PM here) to say “how your health improv..”
-I would really like to be able to label my own custom tracker. Right now I have two that both say “habit free” which means nothing once you have multiple.
-Perhaps the above custom label request solves this one, but I think it’s too limiting a list to choose from. Smoking, for example- there are a loooot of ways to consume nicotine.
-I’d really love to be able to reset the counter when I stumble, but have a log in the counter of prior streaks to be proud of.
-I’m not exactly sure how this would look, but I’d absolutely use a feature that allowed you to count how many times you use nicotine in a day, for example, to aim for a lower number of uses the following day or week.
I love this idea, take or leave the feedback as you will; nice work!!
Your body sends out signals all the time, and those get numbed by the alcohol. So your body compensates with sending out stronger / more signals.
If you stop cold turkey stuff that compensation mechanism doesn't just stop and can lead to Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome [0].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_withdrawal_syndrome