Compared
AlcoTrack vs Reframe
Reframe is a course you take: a 160-day program of daily lessons and tasks, a coach who checks in, live meetings, a community, meditations, and a subscription after a week's trial. AlcoTrack is a diary you keep: a drink goes in, a blood alcohol estimate comes out, the days you skipped get counted, and nothing leaves the phone. They are not really rivals, which is the useful thing to know before you pick.
The short version
If you want to be taught and accompanied, Reframe has the structure and the people, and it is built for both cutting back and quitting. If you want to see the number, the curve and your own data without a program around it, AlcoTrack does that for free. Reframe never shows a blood alcohol estimate, and its listings say your data is collected and, on iOS, used to track you across other apps; AlcoTrack's log never leaves the phone.
Where Reframe is better
- A structured 160-day course with daily lessons and tasks, not just a diary.
- A coach who checks in daily, and a certified recovery coach one-to-one on the premium tier.
- Live meetings and a private community.
- Meditations and games for cravings.
- iOS as well as Android.
Where AlcoTrack is better
- A live blood alcohol estimate with the hour it reaches zero. Reframe has none.
- Sleep, resting heart rate and HRV from your watch next to the nights you drank.
- No account, no subscription for the diary, and the log stays on the phone.
- An alcohol-free calendar with streaks, pledges and achievements.
- 80 cocktail recipes with the maths done, hydration reminders, a morning check-in.
Side by side
| AlcoTrack | Reframe | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A drink diary with a live blood alcohol estimate | A 160-day education program with coaching, meetings and a community |
| Blood alcohol estimate | Live curve, time back to zero, widget | Not offered |
| Drink tracking | Tap a saved drink; presets, 80 cocktail recipes | An alcohol tracker is part of the program |
| Alcohol-free days | A calendar, streaks, pledges, achievements | ~Progress tracking; the listing names no streak or calendar |
| Lessons and tools | None; the app explains its own numbers and nothing more | Daily tasks, a core 160-day course, meditations, games |
| Coaching | ~An AI coach that answers from your own log, in beta | Daily check-ins from a coach; 1:1 certified recovery coaching on the premium tier |
| Meetings and community | None | Live meetings and a private community |
| Sleep and heart rate from a watch | Read from Health Connect | Not offered |
| Account | None | ?The listing does not say; its privacy labels list email, name and a user ID |
| Where your data lives | On your phone, never uploaded | On Reframe's servers; its App Store label also lists identifiers used to track you across other apps |
| Price | Free with ads. Plus: monthly, yearly or paid once | 7-day trial, then a subscription: Access from $13.99 a month or $79.99 a year, Silver $24.99 a month or $119.99 a year, on the US App Store |
| Platforms | Android 9 and newer | iOS 16.4 and newer, Android |
| On Google Play, 25 October 2026 | 4.4 stars, 500,000+ installs | 4.5 stars, 500,000+ installs |
Every Reframe 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
If you want a program, Reframe, and the seven-day trial is long enough to know whether daily lessons suit you before the subscription begins. If you want the diary and the number, AlcoTrack, with nothing to cancel. Running both is not silly: the course for the thinking, the diary for the evidence.
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Sources
- Reframe: Cut Back on Alcohol on Google Play, the description, the subscription terms, the rating and install count, read on 25 October 2026.
- Reframe 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.