Your mentor
Meet your AI mentor, any hour.
Twelve AI mentors, each with an AI-generated face and a voice of their own. Hear them below and pick the one you'd want to talk to. Each one is a space to talk it out, any hour: they listen, help you reflect, and never tell you what to do.
Last updated: October 12, 2026
At launch: 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. Message your mentor on every plan. No ads, ever.
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Meet the mentors
Hear all twelve. Pick the one you'd want to talk to.
Each one is an AI, not a person, with an AI-generated face and a voice of its own. 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.” Press play for a short hello, choose on day one, and switch any time.
CiCi
AI mentor · AI-generated face
Soft and unhurried. Lets you take your time.
Carol
AI mentor · AI-generated face
Warm and steady. Never rushes you.
Angela
AI mentor · AI-generated face
Warm and gentle. Reflects back what you say.
Olivia
AI mentor · AI-generated face
Relaxed and genuine. Talks with you like a friend.
J.W.
AI mentor · AI-generated face
Deep and relaxed. The voice from the welcome video.
Michael
AI mentor · AI-generated face
An older voice, plainspoken. Never in a hurry.
Eric
AI mentor · AI-generated face
Calm and even, and easy to talk to late at night.
Julian
AI mentor · AI-generated face
Easygoing and down to earth. No lectures.
Brittney
AI mentor · AI-generated face
A younger voice. Friendly, and straight with you.
Matthew
AI mentor · AI-generated face
A younger voice. Relaxed and easygoing.
Andre
AI mentor · AI-generated face
Warm and good-humored. Keeps it real, and kind.
Laura
AI mentor · AI-generated face
Calm and gentle, and steady.
At launch: 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.
A welcome from J.W.
The whole app, in about two minutes.
J.W. walks you through it: your privacy, the Time Capsule, your day count and badges, the calendar and the journal. Then he tells you what he is, and what he isn't.
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.”
How a conversation works
It listens. You talk it through.
By message, voice or video, every conversation has the same shape. Here is one kind of night: a craving after twelve years sober.
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It listens
It shows it understood, in its own words, before anything else. It listens more than it talks, and it doesn't hand out tips or advice.
2
It helps you reflect
One open question at a time, so you can hear yourself think: what's going on, what it's like, what matters to you. Like journaling out loud.
3
It follows through
It remembers what you told it, and what you said you'd do, and asks how it went, so you never start from zero. You can read and edit what it remembers.
4
It asks about your people
Your sponsor, a meeting, someone in your corner. The goal is more people in your life, not more time in an app.
Eric, AI-generated mentor
Listening
Twelve years sober, and tonight I'm thinking about drinking. Feels stupid to even say.
It isn't stupid, and it isn't a failure. An urge after twelve years deserves attention. What's changed lately?
Work's been brutal, my dad's sick, and I stopped going to my Tuesday meeting.
That's a lot to carry, and it sounds like you've been carrying it alone. What do you miss about Tuesdays?
Honestly? My sponsor. I haven't called him in a month. Maybe I will tomorrow.
An example conversation with an AI mentor: not a therapist, counselor or sponsor, not medical advice or treatment, and not a substitute for clinical care.
Straight answers
What it will and won't do.
A mentor you can trust has to be honest about its limits. Here they are, plainly.
It will
Listen
It reflects back what you said, in its own words, so you know you were heard. It listens more than it talks.
Help you talk it through
One open question at a time, so you can hear yourself think. What you decide is always yours.
Remember what you tell it
Your reasons, your people, what you planned. You don't have to repeat yourself, and you can read and edit its memory.
Ask about your people
Your sponsor, a meeting, someone in your corner. It steps back as your circle grows.
Stay any hour
2 a.m., a holiday, the night before a hard day. A crisis conversation is never counted or capped.
Help you put it into words
Journal prompts when you want them, and on Premium a draft built only from what you said, for you to edit.
It won't
Give advice
Not medical, not dosing, and not what to do next. It stays out of anything about medicine: that's for you and your doctor.
Keep secrets
It never asks you to hide anything, and it will not promise secrecy when a life is in danger. It tells you that up front.
Pretend to be a person, a therapist or a counselor
It says it is an AI at the start and whenever you ask, and every mentor screen says: “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.” It has no story of its own and never claims one.
Shame you
A slip gets the same warm tone as the day before. No lectures, and never “you threw it all away.”
Sell to you when it's hard
No offers on slip or crisis screens. Ever.
Read your journal without asking
Your journal is yours. It reads an entry only when you turn that on for that entry, and you can turn it off any time.
When it's more than a craving
In danger, it points you to 988 and 911. Straight away.
If something you say sounds like danger, the mentor stops what it was saying and puts a human line in front of you: call or text 988, or call 911.
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.
Our own code checks every message, not just the AI. When it hears danger, a fixed, careful script takes over.
It doesn't assess or counsel, and it stays. It tells you plainly that a person should help with this, never ends a conversation on a hard moment, and never hands you a number and leaves.
Text or call 988, and the conversation is still there when you come back.
It is honest about what it can do. It cannot send help, and it will never say it called someone when it hasn't.
Never metered. A crisis conversation is never counted or capped, even with no minutes left.
For help with drinking or drugs, SAMHSA's National Helpline is free and confidential, any hour: 1-800-662-4357.
J.W., AI-generated mentor
Still here with you
I'm an AI, and this is something a person should help with. Please call or text 988 now, or call 911 if you're in danger. I'm still here.
Call 988Talk to a person nowText 988Texts from your phoneCall 911For an emergencyAn illustration of the crisis panel in the app. The numbers are always shown as text, and the panel stays up even if your data drops.
Messages, voice and video
Talk the way that suits you.
Messaging is in every plan. Voice works on every plan too, from your minutes, and video is on Plus and Premium: a minute of voice uses 1 minute, and a minute of video uses 3. Plus and Premium include minutes every month, and any plan can top up.
Messages + top-ups
Essentials
$12.99a month
3-day free trial, then $12.99 a month, plus tax. Renews automatically every month until you cancel. Cancel anytime in your phone's store settings.
- Your AI mentor by message, any hour
- A daily line from your mentor
- 10 open messages a day
- A crisis never counts toward a limit
- 10 free voice minutes in your trial
Recommended
Messages + 30 minutes
Plus
$19.99a month
Billed monthly, plus tax. Renews automatically every month until you cancel. Cancel anytime in your phone's store settings.
- Everything in Essentials
- 30 voice minutes a month, or 10 on video
- 20 open messages a day
- Journal prompts from your mentor
- Every guided path, adding After the first 30, The first year and Week by week
Messages + 120 minutes
Premium
$29.99a month
Billed monthly, plus tax. Renews automatically every month until you cancel. Cancel anytime in your phone's store settings.
- Everything in Plus
- 120 voice minutes a month, or 40 on video
- The most time on video
- Help writing your journal, by message or voice
Top-ups
Need more minutes? Top up.
On any plan. Minutes you buy never expire, your plan's minutes are used first, and nothing tops up on its own: when your minutes run low, the app asks first, within the monthly spending cap you set. Video needs Plus or Premium.
A zero balance never cuts off a craving or a crisis: the conversation carries on in messages, read aloud by your phone. Prices are plus tax. Compare every plan
Transcript
Read J.W.'s welcome
The whole welcome, word for word, for anyone who would rather read than watch. The video runs 2:06.
Hey. Welcome. Still deciding, just starting, or years in, I'm really glad you're here. I'm J.W. I'll introduce myself properly at the end.
Free and Sober is for every stage. Any substance. No shame.
First, your privacy. At launch, your journal and your Time Capsules are locked with your key, so we can't read them. No one at Free and Sober reads your conversations with me. Use it with confidence. Invite people to your journey by email, and choose exactly what each one sees.
On day one, you make something you can't open until day thirty. Your Time Capsule. A message to your future self. Video, voice, or writing. We recommend video. It stays sealed until its day. Then make more, and pick the day each one opens.
Your day count sits on the home screen, with a check-in that takes one tap. Earn badges from twenty-four hours to years.
When a craving hits and you need someone to talk to, one button is right there on your home screen.
Plus a private calendar with quiet reminders, a meeting finder, and a daily journal you can write or speak.
Now, as promised. I'm J.W., one of twelve mentors. 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. Talk with me out loud, face to face on video, or message me in the app. I listen first, any hour, and always point you back to real people.
Pick me, or any of the other eleven. Choose the one you'd want to talk to.
See everything inside the app, right below, and join the waitlist. Your first 30 days of Essentials are free with the code FIRST30.
The door is open. Come on in.
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
Coming soon
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)