Compared
AlcoTrack vs I Am Sober
These two answer different questions. I Am Sober's is "how long has it been?", and it answers with a counter, milestones, a daily pledge and a community of people counting with you. AlcoTrack's is "what did I drink, and what is it doing?", and it answers with a diary, a blood alcohol curve and the days you skipped. One is for after you quit; the other is for while you still drink.
The short version
If you have stopped and want company while you count, I Am Sober has what a diary cannot: ten million installs, milestones that mean something, a pledge every morning, and people at the same day count as you. It has no drink log, because it assumes there is nothing to log, and it asks you to open an account and declare an addiction before it starts. If you still drink and want to see the pattern, the blood alcohol, the sleep it costs you, AlcoTrack is built for exactly that, counts the alcohol-free days on the side, and needs no account to do it.
Where I Am Sober is better
- A sober-day counter with milestones, from one day to years.
- A daily pledge, an end-of-day review, a withdrawal timeline.
- A community for every addiction, not only alcohol.
- Money and time saved since you quit.
- iOS as well as Android; ten million installs.
Where AlcoTrack is better
- A drink diary, with a live blood alcohol estimate and the hour it reaches zero.
- Sleep, resting heart rate and HRV from your watch next to the nights you drank.
- No account; the log never leaves the phone.
- An AI coach that has actually read your log.
- Alcohol-free days counted on a calendar you can still drink on.
Side by side
| AlcoTrack | I Am Sober | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A drink diary with a live blood alcohol estimate | A sobriety counter with pledges, milestones and a community |
| Built for | People who still drink and want to see it | People who have quit, alcohol or anything else |
| Blood alcohol estimate | Live curve, time back to zero, widget | Not offered |
| Drink diary | Tap a saved drink; presets, 80 cocktail recipes | A sober-day counter, not a drink log |
| Alcohol-free days | A calendar, streaks, pledges, achievements | A sober-day counter, milestones from a day to years, a daily pledge |
| Money and time saved | ~What a month of drinking cost; no savings counter | A sobriety calculator for money and time saved |
| Community | None | A community per addiction; private groups on Sober Plus |
| Coaching | ~An AI coach that answers from your own log, in beta | ~Daily pledges, a withdrawal timeline, end-of-day reviews; no coach |
| Sleep and heart rate from a watch | Read from Health Connect | Not offered |
| Account | None | You create an account and declare your addiction |
| Where your data lives | On your phone, never uploaded | On its servers; the App Store label lists email, user content and identifiers linked to you. Cloud backups are a Sober Plus feature |
| Price | Free with ads. Plus: monthly, yearly or paid once | Free. Sober Plus from $9.99 a month, $27.49 for six months or $29.99 to $39.99 a year, on the US App Store |
| Platforms | Android 9 and newer | iOS 15.1 and newer, Android |
| On Google Play, 25 October 2026 | 4.4 stars, 500,000+ installs | 4.7 stars, 10,000,000+ installs |
Every I Am Sober cell comes from its Google Play listing and its App Store listing (prices and the privacy label) as they read on 25 October 2026. "Not offered" means neither mentions it. German advertising law asks a comparison to be objective and checkable, which is also simply the honest way to do it. If a cell has gone stale, tell me.
Which one
Quit, and want a crowd counting with you: I Am Sober. Still drinking and watching it: AlcoTrack. Quitting, and curious what the last months looked like: AlcoTrack again, because its calendar keeps counting alcohol-free days after the diary goes quiet and the achievements never get taken away.
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Sources
- I Am Sober on Google Play, the description, the rating and install count, read on 25 October 2026.
- I Am Sober on the App Store, the in-app purchase prices, the iOS requirement and the privacy label, read the same day.
- AlcoTrack on Google Play, read the same day. The rest of the AlcoTrack column is the app itself.