Sober: Recovery Tracker

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Not really worthwhile features. A few main complaints. The calendar is bugged right now. Dont get how an app that is essentially a calendar would have that issue but here we are. Daily motivational messages are good, but if you dont save them, there is not a database that u can look through to read some. The daily check ins, i dont think there are any charts that track over time trends. Nor can you read what you journal in the past (to my knowledge)

2. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Used to be free. i liked this app bc you could track multiple different substances at the same time. Now it charges you to even add another one. So i deleted one of them so i could add another one and you want to charge me money? for tracking sobriety. i was already tracking two, deleted one to add a different substance and now you want to charge me? for something ive already used for half a year. you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to charge sober individuals money to track their progress. Clearly don’t care about helping anyone and jsut want money. what a joke. this app is trash now. and whoever made in app purchases is a horrible person. what a terrible thing to do.

3. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Blank screen. This app was amazing until it stopped working. Whenever I login it's just a blank screen. I've deleted and downloaded many times. This happens on my iPhone 11 and now 16. Such a bummer. Otherwise, it's great. Really helped get me to 3 years of sobriety.

4. ★★★★★login, signup and account access

   Loved but now not. I started using this app on Christmas Day and I thought it was the greatest thing but three times in just over 37 days I wake up in the morning in the app doesn’t load and I login with my email tells me there’s a problem. First time I was able to get it back in a daysecond time two days and I’m on day two on the third one and even got results from a support and tells me I can just sign in with touching the Apple and it’s still errors so now I need to find another app that I can rely on

5. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   App crash. App deleted my entire tracker after 70 days

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Great app that I am now unable to use. Since a recent update, this app which I used to count my sobriety cannot be used due to parental restrictions on my phone as a young person in recovery, is there anything you guys can do to make it so I can’t count my days again as a 16 year old trying to get sober, thanks

7. ★★★★★login, signup and account access

   Horrible customer service. I have emailed, tweeted, everything about a login issue? There is zero customer support.

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   New version wiped my data. Garbage app avoided at all costs Response to developer: you lost my sober date you incompetent buffoon! Your incompetence cost me something incredibly important to myself, my family and my future. I had my sober date backed up in this app and this app gets backed up in the cloud. When the developers so incompetent they lose peoples data that makes it a garbage app and it makes the developer garbage human being! You have peoples lives in your hands you fool.

9. ★★★★★an update broke a familiar workflow

   Update Ruined this App. Doesn’t function, I can’t even enter my correct sobriety date- it switches at random. Very unfortunate.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Update is awful. Keep having me reset every time it launches. Lost all my favorites for the daily messages which don’t even show up anymore. It’s too bad, it helped me get sober and relied on it for daily motivation but doesn’t look like that will be the case anymore

11. ★★★★★search fails to find what is needed

    Different App on IPad. I am unable to search keywords to find messages. I can easily search on and Android phone. I didn’t realize the app would be different, bummer

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Lame App with a chat forum filled with retards. Your app is useless and the forum is filled with idiots that keep relapsing.

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Why does it not count days anymore???. Mine suddenly switched from saying 130-something days to 4 months, 14 days.....and I don’t like it. There should at least be an option to switch it back to day counting.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Review. Too many adds

15. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    full of annoying ads. i thought ok for bit inspiration I can deal with ads, no annoying and loud. When I am sitting in a public place reading on app suddenly boom loud ads you cant close. Get a counter and few motivation stories and quotes, I think it is a teaser to get people to buy their full app.

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    New Change = Horrible. Really enjoyed the app before the recent change - now the focus is not on sobriety but instead generating ad revenues. Really disappointing ...

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not that great!. .......................

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Sober Tools. After downloading the app this morning, I've spent the last 3 hours trying to get past the stick man on the ladder. I never could get into the app and I just deleted it in defeat. It's too bad, it's advertisement looked real helpful as an aid to those in recovery. I downloaded a different app as a replacement to this one.

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bugged. It opens, hangs, then crashes.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Doesn't do anything. App doesn't do anything. Opens and then immediately crashes.

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Tried to like it but can't. Honestly too much reading. And can't really track anything. Sorry. I really wanted to like it but I can't. Not what I need as a toolbox for recovery. Try recoveryBox instead. Well worth the 2 bucks.

22. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

    Bad. Terribly slow and useless, unfortunately.

23. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Sober tool. I like the content of this app however it is useless as it won't open

24. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Insane monetization plan. It's clear that the developers of this app no longer care about their users. I will explain why. First, I understand that every developer needs to support themselves. Yes, i get it, you need your money! The problem is that these developers decided to monetize their app *overnight*. They did it instantly, without notification. They just pushed an update to everybody one day which permanently locked features that everybody used to have access to. locked them behind an expensive paywall. The developers knew they messed up because they quickly went back and lowered the price of the annual subscription. But here's the thing: they NEVER told users in advance about their plan to monetize. they did not grandfather in any existing users, they did not offer existing users a discount, and they never once communicated to users what their plans were. They pushed all these changes on the user and basically told us to just deal with it. users had no warning of what was going on, and no communication from the developer. Furthermore, the developer reconfigured the app so that it literally refuses to launch unless you are connected to Internet. I assume they do this so the app can display ads. Look, each person can develop their app however they choose, but it's been a while since I have seen something so actively hostile. This is if the main focus of the product was lost, and now they're focus on extracting money from their users.

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Keeps referencing AA and God. Not my thing and should be mentioned. Deleting app. Wasted money.

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Day counter. Want my day count instead of wgg he at u change to

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Too much god stuff.... Too much god stuff...

28. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    In app ads are terrible. App seems decent, but the in app ads pop up waaaay too much. Very annoying. Lose the ads. Get more subscribers. Simple.

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Brings Down Ones Self. It's like most typical AA and 12-step-based programs they want you to take accountability for your mistakes but in a way that brings down your pride and esteem. I think know one should not think that's acceptable you're already beaten down you're already at your lowest point society already thinks of you as a problem why should you have to keep bringing yourself down programs like these need to rethink the way they structure things and deliver the message you were not the problem.

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Good app, but has a bug. I really do like this app, but whenever I go to view my daily message it refreshes to the home screen, which is really annoying. Also, there really should be a place to give feedback or report bugs like this