Compared
AlcoTrack vs Sober Time
Sober Time is a clock. It starts the moment you stop and runs to the second, with a milestone for every stretch, a forum and a journal beside it, and it will time anything you are quitting, alcohol included. AlcoTrack is a diary for the drinks that still happen: what went in, what your blood alcohol is doing, when it is back to zero, and which nights you skipped. One starts where the other stops.
The short version
If you have quit and want to watch the time stack up, Sober Time does that better than a diary could: a counter in seconds, more than ten ways to display it, goals built in or your own, a forum you can read without signing up, a journal in the AA mould. It has nowhere to write a drink into, by design, and it reads nothing from a watch. AlcoTrack is for the evenings that still happen: the drink, the curve, the hour it is back to zero, the sleep your watch recorded afterwards. Its calendar counts the sober days as well, keeps counting after the diary goes quiet, and asks for no account.
Where Sober Time is better
- A sobriety clock to the second, in more than ten display modes, for as many addictions as you like.
- Goals built in or your own, with a notification when you reach one.
- A forum you can read without an account, daily motivation, a guided journal.
- Money saved since you quit.
- iOS, Apple Watch and Android; a 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, and nothing in the log is used to track you.
- An AI coach that has read your log.
- Alcohol-free days counted on a calendar you can still drink on, with pledges and 41 achievements.
Side by side
| AlcoTrack | Sober Time | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A drink diary with a live blood alcohol estimate | A sobriety clock with milestones, a forum and a journal |
| Built for | People who still drink and want to see it | People who have quit, alcohol or anything else, and count the time since |
| Blood alcohol estimate | Live curve, time back to zero, widget | Not offered |
| Drink diary | Tap a saved drink; presets, 80 cocktail recipes | A relapse log with notes, not a drink log |
| Alcohol-free days | A calendar, streaks, pledges, achievements | A clock to the second in more than ten display modes, goals built in or your own, milestones |
| Money and time saved | ~What a month of drinking cost; no savings counter | Money saved, per addiction |
| Community | None | A forum you can read without an account |
| Coaching | ~An AI coach that answers from your own log, in beta | ~Daily motivation, a guided journal, a button to phone your sponsor; no coach |
| Sleep and heart rate from a watch | Read from Health Connect | An Apple Watch app shows the clock; nothing is read from the watch |
| Account | None | ~The forum can be browsed without one; the listings do not say what the rest needs |
| Where your data lives | On your phone, never uploaded | ?The listings do not say. Play lists personal info and app activity as collected; the App Store label lists identifiers used to track you |
| Price | Free with ads. Plus: monthly, yearly or paid once | Free with ads. Premium $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, on the US App Store |
| Languages | 28 | 8 on the App Store; the Play listing does not say |
| Platforms | Android 9 and newer | iOS 17 and newer, Apple Watch, Android |
| On Google Play, 25 October 2026 | 4.4 stars, 500,000+ installs | 4.8 stars, 1,000,000+ installs, first released January 2015 |
Every Sober Time cell comes from its Google Play listing, including the data safety section, and its App Store listing (prices, languages, the iOS requirement, the Apple Watch app, 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
Stopped, and want to watch the clock run: Sober Time. Still drinking, or cutting down and wanting the evidence: AlcoTrack, which has the sober calendar too, so a stretch of alcohol-free days gets counted whether or not you ever set a clock going.
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Sources
- Sober Time - Sober Day Counter on Google Play, the description, the data safety section, the rating, install count and release date, read on 25 October 2026.
- Sober Time on the App Store, the in-app purchase prices, the languages, the iOS and Apple Watch requirements, the forum without an account, 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.