Updated August 2026
Declaring it up front: we make one of the two apps here. We think you might want both, which makes this an easier page to write honestly than most.
Loosid solves the loneliest part of getting sober — the empty Friday. It just isn't built for the Tuesday, and early on, Tuesday is the one that gets you.
Loosid is less a recovery program and more a life. Sober dating, sober events, group chats, travel ideas, people to actually meet — it takes the loneliest part of getting sober and fills it with faces. For someone whose entire social world used to run through bars, that's not a small thing; it can be the difference between a sobriety you endure and one you enjoy.
Free basics · paid tiers — check their site for current pricing
Loosid shines once you're steady on your feet. If you're in the early white-knuckle days — the stage where the hard part isn't Friday night plans but getting through Tuesday at 2am — a social network isn't really built for that moment. There's no structured daily program to work through, and no toolkit for the urge that arrives when the house goes quiet.
And like almost everything in this space, it's for the person in recovery. The partner standing beside them isn't part of the picture.
There's a stage where the problem is your calendar: every friend you have is a drinking friend and Friday is a cliff. Loosid is genuinely the best answer to that, and nothing here replaces it.
There's an earlier stage where the problem isn't Friday at all. It's an ordinary Tuesday, the house has gone quiet, nobody is doing anything, and the pull arrives anyway. A social network can't help with that hour — there's nothing to plan and nobody to meet.
That hour is what this is for. An SOS screen you open one-handed: breathing, grounding, a 2.5-minute exercise that takes the urge up and over, and six recorded voices that talk you through it out loud. A daily lesson, a few minutes, ninety days, that keeps working on why the quiet is so hard.
Also worth saying: the person at home who's been holding their breath for years gets their own side here — their own lessons, their own private journal.
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 Loosid if you're steady and the missing piece is a life — people, dates, events, somewhere to go that isn't a bar. That's a real problem and it's the one they set out to solve.
Pick this if you're still in the white-knuckle stretch where getting through an ordinary evening is the whole job. Come back to Loosid when the evenings stop being the problem — you'll want it then.
Comparisons & Alternatives:
Best Recovery Apps | I Am Sober | Reframe | Sunnyside | Sober Time | Quittr | Covenant Eyes | Brainbuddy | Fortify | BetBlocker | QuitNow | Ever Accountable | BlockerX | Nomo