Updated August 2026
One of the apps compared here is ours; the other is free forever and made by someone in recovery. We'll tell you when theirs is the right answer, because sometimes it is.
Nomo is the best free sobriety clock there is, built by someone in recovery, with no paywall creeping up on you. A clock tells you how far you've come. It doesn't tell you what to do tonight.
Nomo gives you sobriety clocks — as many as you want, for anything you're quitting — plus milestone chips and a few small extras like distraction exercises. No subscription, no paywall creeping up on day eight. It was built by someone in recovery himself, and that honesty shows in how simple and unpushy it is. As a free counter, it flat-out delivers.
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A clock tells you how far you've come. It doesn't tell you what to do tonight. There's no daily program in Nomo, no lessons that build week over week, no companion to talk to when it's late and the old pull shows up, and no structured toolkit for riding out a bad hour.
And, like every counter app, it's for the person quitting. The person who loves them — who's doing their own invisible counting — has nothing to open.
Nomo earns its reputation — unlimited clocks, no subscription, no upsell, honest about what it is. If all you need is the count, take it and don't pay anyone anything.
The gap is the evening. A clock is a record of the past; it has no opinion about the next two hours. So this app leads with those two hours: an SOS screen with breathing and grounding, a 2.5-minute exercise that rides the urge up over its peak and out, six recorded voices for when reading is beyond you.
Then something a counter can't give you: a direction. A daily lesson, a few minutes, that builds week over week across ninety days, on whichever of thirteen tracks you're fighting. All ninety days are free forever, as are every tool, the journal and the whole partner side — so the price stays where Nomo set the bar.
And the person doing their own invisible counting — the one watching your eyes at dinner — has somewhere of their own here.
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 Nomo if you want a clean free counter and nothing else, and you've got your own plan for the hard nights. It's the best free one and it will never charge you.
Pick this if the counting isn't the hard part — the nights are. Or if somebody at home has been counting too and has nowhere to put it.
Comparisons & Alternatives:
Best Recovery Apps | I Am Sober | Reframe | Sunnyside | Loosid | Sober Time | Quittr | Covenant Eyes | Brainbuddy | Fortify | BetBlocker | QuitNow | Ever Accountable | BlockerX