Updated August 2026
Worth knowing up front: one of these two apps is ours. We'll still be straight about both, because different apps genuinely suit different people and pretending otherwise is the fastest way to lose you.
Fortify is a proper school for this, with a rare free tier and a real ally feature. Two honest questions: will you actually sit through video modules, and is porn really the only thread?
Fortify is built like a school for getting free: video lessons, training modules, journaling, progress tracking, and a community of people doing the same work. Two things stand out. First, there's a genuinely free basic tier — rare in this niche. Second, you can invite an ally to walk alongside you, which turns a private struggle into a shared project. Premium unlocks the full library and live sessions with people who know this terrain.
Free basic tier · premium subscription — check their site for current pricing
Fortify is focused on one habit. If your struggle spreads wider — the porn and the drinking feed each other, or the same escape-hatch instinct shows up in three different places — you'd be working one front of a wider battle.
It's also course-first. If you learn best that way, great; if sitting through video modules feels like homework you'll quietly stop doing, be honest with yourself about that. And while the ally feature is real, there's no dedicated, private space built for a partner's own experience — their fear, their anger, their questions. Allies support your journey; nobody supports theirs.
Course-first works beautifully for some people and quietly fails others. Be honest with yourself about which you are. If video modules start feeling like homework, you don't quit the app — you just stop opening it, and a month goes by.
We went the other way: a few minutes a day, and you can listen instead of watch. Six narrated voices, on a walk, in the car, with your eyes shut. Ninety days of it, every track free forever. Lower ceiling than a full curriculum, much lower floor for actually turning up.
The other thing is scope. Fortify is one habit. This runs thirteen, at once if you need it, because for most people the porn and the drinking and the 3am scrolling are the same instinct wearing different coats — and fighting one while the others run is how people end up back at the start.
Fortify's ally walks alongside your journey. Here, the person who loves you gets a journey of their own: their own lessons, their own private journal, and a couples programme where nothing crosses over but a day count.
Free, forever. Every lesson, every tool.
Try it free On Android? Get it on Google Play I’m here because of someone I love →Pick Fortify if you learn by studying, want depth on one habit, and like the idea of live sessions with people who know the terrain. Both apps have free tiers, so you can genuinely run both this week.
Pick this if your habits arrive as a tangle, if you'd rather listen than watch, or if someone needs more than a window into your progress.
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