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Ready to stop
Still drinking or using, and ready to stop. It starts with safety: when to talk to a doctor before you stop, and SAMHSA's free helpline. Then a first day, a meeting, and an AI mentor to talk it through with.
A garden door at the top of six stone steps. If you need help now, call or text 988.
Honesty
Hope
Courage
Connection
Patience
Gratitude
Take the first step
Honesty.Tell yourself the truth, gently.
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The sobriety app for any substance, at every stage
The door is open.
Free from dependence. Sober in every sense. Free and Sober is a sobriety app for iPhone and Android, with support for every step of recovery. It counts your days from your start date, marks your milestones, and seals a message from you to your future self until day 30. Any hour, you can talk it out with an AI mentor by message, voice or video.
Sealed tonight
Opens on day 30
Twelve AI-generated mentors
Message, voice or video
J.W. is one of twelve AI mentors, not a person, with an AI-generated face and voice. “I'm an AI, not a therapist or counselor, and this isn't medical advice or treatment. It's not a substitute for clinical care.”
At launch: your first 30 days of Essentials free with code FIRST30 (3 days free without it), then from $12.99 a month, plus tax. Renews automatically every month until you cancel. Cancel anytime in your phone's store settings.
- No ads, ever
- Private by design
- Any substance
- Crisis lines: call or text 988
Inside the app.
Real screens from Free and Sober. Swipe or scroll to see each one.
Sample content shown.
Meet the mentors
Pick the voice you'd want to talk to.
J.W. is one of twelve AI mentors, each with an AI-generated face and a voice of their own. Tap a face to hear a short hello. Choose one on day one, and switch any time.
CiCi
Soft, sweet voice
Carol
Warm, steady voice
Angela
Warm, gentle voice
Olivia
Relaxed, friendly voice
J.W.
Deep, relaxed voice
Michael
Older, unhurried voice
Eric
Calm, even voice
Julian
Easygoing voice
Brittney
Younger woman's voice
Matthew
Younger man's voice
Andre
Warm, good-humored voice
Laura
Calm, clear voice
More about each mentor
The mentors are AI, not people, and their faces and voices are AI-generated. Every one tells you: “I'm an AI, not a therapist or counselor, and this isn't medical advice or treatment. It's not a substitute for clinical care.” Read J.W.'s welcome as text.
Wherever you are
One app for the whole way.
Most apps start on day one. People don't. Free and Sober meets you where you are, then moves with you, whether you're stepping away from alcohol, opioids or pills, cannabis, stimulants or anything else. The same count, mentors, guided paths and Time Capsule work for every substance.
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Newly sober
Your first days and weeks. A guided first 30 days, your first badges, and your Time Capsule opening on day 30.
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Already sober
30 days in, six months, a year, or years. Bring your full count and every milestone you already earned. A mentor to talk it out with, any hour, that takes a craving after years seriously.
The Time Capsule
Ninety seconds to your future self.
On day one you make a message to yourself: on video, by voice, or in writing. We recommend video. We seal it. It opens on day 30, the day the first month ends. Then record more and pick the day each one opens: up to 3 sealed at a time on Plus and Premium, 1 on Essentials.
Private by design
Locked with a key only you hold
Not even we can see it. It stays sealed until its day, and it's never used for ads or sold.
Sealed until its day
A rule in the database holds it until the morning it opens. No link, support request or edited app can open it early.
Two locks, and we only ever hold one.
Sealed
Opens on day 30
Day 12 of 30
Your key
Day 1
Record it
Video or voice, up to 90 seconds, or a letter in writing. We recommend video. It stays sealed until it opens.
Days 2 to 29
Sealed
You can take it back for one hour. After that it stays sealed until the day it opens.
Day 30
It opens
You recorded this at the beginning. Here it is. Answer it, then record the next one and pick when it opens: day 90, a year, a birthday, any date that matters to you.
Your mentor
A place to talk it out at 2 a.m.
A space to talk it out, any hour, with the mentor you choose. Say what's on your mind, out loud or by message. They listen, reflect back what they hear, and help you think it through, like journaling out loud. No advice, no lectures.
- It is an AI, not a therapist or counselor, and it says so. All twelve mentors have an AI-generated face and voice.
- It gives no advice, medical or otherwise.
- It never asks you to keep a secret.
- A person is always one tap away: call or text 988.
- Every message gets the same crisis check first. The mentor follows a written crisis protocol signed by a licensed clinician, uses only fixed crisis lines a licensed clinician approved, and puts Call 988, Text 988 and Call 911 in front of you.
J.W., AI-generated mentor
Listening
It's two in the morning and the craving won't stop.
That pull is loud right now, and you reached out instead. That counts. What is it telling you tonight?
That I've earned it after this week. That one won't matter.
So you're worn out, and part of you feels owed something after a week like that. What made it so heavy?
An example conversation. Every mentor says it plainly: “I'm an AI, not a therapist or counselor, and this isn't medical advice or treatment. It's not a substitute for clinical care.”
Every day
A count you can see. A slip you can come back from.
Your day count lives on the home screen, with a check-in that takes a minute. If you slip, you start a new count and your history stays. Nothing here calls that a failure.
Day count
90
days
Current and total days, counted across every attempt, so a slip never takes away what you built.
Milestones
Badges you earn and keep: bronze, then silver, gold and platinum, from 24 hours to every year after.
See every badgeYour calendar
Meetings, a pickup, any reminder you choose. Private reminders that never say what they are for.
Your Corner
EJR+
The people who have your back see the milestones you choose and can send a note. Only add people who are safe for you.
How Your Corner worksMeetings
Find a meeting by town and state, or ZIP code, tonight.
In person or online. The app sends you to real rooms and real people.
Milestones
Every day you stay earns something you keep.
Badges for time, marked the way the rooms mark it: bronze, then silver, gold and platinum. Firsts for the things you do, like a meeting or a call. And nothing you earn is ever taken back, not even after a slip.
Your badges
2 of 9 earned
Earned
Earned
18 days to go
90 days
6 months
9 months
1 year
18 months
Every year after
Our own designs. They never copy fellowship chips or key tags.
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of 60 days
On a milestone morning
F&S · now
30 days today.
Open the app to your badge, a soft tap from your phone, and one line from your mentor built from the reasons you gave on day one:
"You said you wanted mornings back. Thirty of them now."
Firsts
The firsts worth marking.
First check-in
Capsule sealed
First meeting logged
First call to a person
First person in your corner
Safety plan built
7 check-ins
Capsule answered
90 meetings in 90 days
Firsts reward meetings and people. There are no rewards for time spent with the AI.
Total days
100
Counted across every attempt. A slip starts a new count, but it never takes away what you built.
150 more days to your 250 badge
100
250
500
1,000
Your Corner
Bring your people in, on your terms.
Add the people who have your back with a first name and an email. They don't need the app. They see only what you choose, and they can answer with a note when it counts.
Your Corner
3 of 5
E
Elena
Milestones
Day count
Accepted
J
James
Milestones
Capsule day
Accepted
R
Rosa
Milestones
Invite sent
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Add someone
Only add people who are safe for you.
Free and Sober
Maria shared a milestone with you
Maria reached 90 days today.
Send a note
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Add them
A first name and an email is all it takes. Up to 5 people on Plus, and 15 on Premium. Only you can add someone to your corner.
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They say yes
They get one invite that says exactly what they'll see. Nothing else is sent until they accept, and every email has a one-click way to stop.
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They see what you choose
Milestones by default. Add your day count or the morning a Time Capsule opens, person by person. The subject line never says sobriety or recovery.
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They answer back
Their notes land in the app, where you can read them, mute someone, or remove them. On Plus and Premium, they can record a corner capsule: their voice, sealed. It opens on one of your milestones, the one they pick.
What they see
The milestones you share, with your first name
Your day count, if you turn it on for them
The morning a Time Capsule opens, if you turn it on
A private page with what you allow, and a way to send a note
What stays private to the member
Your recordings and what's inside a capsule
Your conversations with your mentor
Check-ins, journal entries and cravings
A slip. If your count restarts, milestone emails just pause.
Remove anyone, any time
It stops the same day, and they aren't told.
Pause everything
One switch pauses all sharing at once.
Not your crisis contact
Your corner is never alerted in a crisis. Your trusted contact is separate, and reached only when you tap to call or text them.
Pricing
Start free at launch. Stay if it fits.
At launch: three days free, with 10 minutes of voice so you can hear your mentor before you pay, then from $12.99 a month, plus tax. Messaging your mentor is in every plan, and there are no ads, ever. Renews automatically every month until you cancel. Cancel anytime in your phone's store settings: the app takes you straight there.
Essentials
Everything you need, every day.
$12.99a month
At launch: 3 days free, then $12.99 a month, plus tax. Renews automatically every month until you cancel. Cancel anytime in your phone's store settings.
10 free voice minutes
In your trial. Messages are always included
The Time Capsule
A message to your future self, sealed until it opens
Four guided paths
Getting ready, The first 30 days, Staying sober and After a slip, read or listened to in your AI mentor's voice
Your AI mentor, any hour
By message, any hour, on every plan
Also included
- Badges, Firsts and a daily check-in
- Your calendar. The meeting finder is open to everyone, even without a plan.
- A private journal, in the paper and pen you choose
- App lock and widgets
- 10 open messages a day with your mentor
Recommended
Plus
Built for the long run.
$19.99a month
Billed monthly, plus tax. Renews automatically every month until you cancel. Cancel anytime in your phone's store settings.
30 voice minutes a month
Or 10 minutes on video
Every guided path
Adds After the first 30, The first year and Week by week, to read or listen to
Corner capsules
Your people's voices, sealed until your milestones
Also included
- Everything in Essentials
- Twice the open messages, 20 a day
- Journal prompts from your mentor
- The Apple Watch app
- Your Corner, up to 5 people
Premium
The most time on video with your mentor.
$29.99a month
Billed monthly, plus tax. Renews automatically every month until you cancel. Cancel anytime in your phone's store settings.
120 voice minutes a month
Or 40 minutes on video, four times Plus
The most time on video
40 minutes of video a month, with an AI mentor's AI-generated face and voice, live
The best price per minute
90 more minutes than Plus for $10 more, less than any top-up
Also included
- Everything in Plus
- Help writing your journal, by message or voice
- Your Corner, up to 15 people
Message any time. Talk by the minute.
Messaging your mentor is part of every plan and never uses minutes. Talking does: a minute of voice uses 1 minute, and a minute on video uses 3. Your balance always shows the minutes you have left.
30
minutes
$4.99
Or 10 on video
Save 10%
100
minutes
$14.99
Or about 33 on video
Best value, save 16%
250
minutes
$34.99
Or about 83 on video
Your plan's minutes are used first and refresh every month.
Minutes you buy never expire, even if you pause your plan. Video needs Plus or Premium.
Nothing tops up on its own. When your minutes run low, the app asks first, within the monthly spending cap you set.
Cravings and crisis never use minutes. Running out never cuts one off.
Prices are before tax. Sales tax is added at checkout where your state charges it, 6.35% in Connecticut. Crisis tools, your count and your capsules stay open to you, subscribed or not. Compare every feature
Safety and privacy
Private by design.
Only you can open your journal, Time Capsules and care messages. Not even we can see them. Nobody at Free and Sober reads your mentor chats, and we keep them only for the session unless you choose a short, stated retention window. You choose what each person in your corner sees, your data is never sold, and there are no ads, ever.
Your vault, locked with a key only you hold
Every Time Capsule stays sealed until its day.
What happens to your conversations
We keep mentor conversations only for the session, unless you agree to a short, stated retention window. No one at Free and Sober reads your chats. The AI provider that answers you reads each message to reply, and may keep it for a time under its terms. If you're in danger, the app brings up 988, 911 and your trusted contact, and the conversation stays open while you call.
A lock on the whole app
Face ID or a passcode and quiet notifications, on every plan. Nobody picking up your phone needs to know.
No ads. Nothing sold.
Sobriety is health data. It is never used for advertising and never sold, and this site runs no trackers.
Take it with you, or delete it
Export everything or delete your account from inside the app, any time. Your recordings go with it.
Not a substitute for treatment
Free and Sober is a sobriety app, not treatment. It does not replace a doctor, a counselor, a meeting or a sponsor. If you drink or use every day, please talk to a doctor before you stop, or today if you already have. The SAMHSA National Helpline, 1-800-662-4357, can help you find treatment, free, any hour.
Get the app
Walk through when you're ready.
Free and Sober is coming soon to the App Store and Google Play, in every US state except Utah. What happens next: join the waitlist, get a short email confirming you joined, then one email at launch. Use code FIRST30 for 30 days of Essentials free; without it, the trial is 3 days, then from $12.99 a month, plus tax. On your phone, the app shows as F&S on your home screen and in notifications.
Questions, organizations and press
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Your first 30 days are free.
A word from Carol, one of twelve AI mentors, with an AI-generated face and voice. Coming soon to iPhone and Android. Join the waitlist, and at launch your first 30 days of Essentials are free with code FIRST30; without the code, 3 days free. Then from $12.99 a month, plus tax. Renews automatically every month until you cancel. Cancel anytime in your phone's store settings.
Watch J.W.'s welcome (2:06)