Best Addiction Recovery Apps of 2024

WeConnect gives you unlimited access to recovery meetings at no cost, which is why it earned our award for Best App to Access Meetings. Studies show that there are significant benefits to attending recovery meetings with peers.¹ Sharing personal stories, challenges, and milestones, as well as listening to others’ experiences in recovery can provide a safe space for empathy and accountability.

General support meetings are offered from 7 am to 11 pm throughout the day in all time zones, with special meetings for specific groups and topics provided at least once daily. General support meetings have a theme, like forgiveness or gratitude, which helps guide the conversation in a productive direction. Examples of specialty meetings include sessions that are created for women, veterans, mothers, and the LGBTQIA+ community. Some specialty meetings also focus on issues, such as reducing self-harm or grief support.

Meetings are hosted by peer support specialists with personal experience in addiction recovery. These hosts provide guidelines and best practices before each meeting. For instance, they’ll explain when it’s time to share, how it’s important not to judge other members, and why you should ask permission before providing feedback to others. Those who feel they need extra support beyond meetings can access one-on-one daily peer support services and wellness planning when they upgrade to the WeConnect premium version.

Quitzilla makes it easy to track your sobriety with its addiction monitoring features, which is why it earned the award for Best Sobriety Tracking App. Once you enter your addiction and sober date, the clock immediately starts tracking how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds you remain sober. It also tracks time and money saved so you can instantly see what you’re gaining throughout recovery.

The Quitzilla app includes daily motivational messages and a diary section so you can keep track of thoughts, feelings, people, environments, and experiences that impact your sobriety. You can set your own goals, like staying sober for 24 hours, five days, or one year. Once you reach a milestone, you can instantly share your accomplishments. By tapping the “Share Progress” button, Quitzilla can send a customized text message to anyone in your contacts.

Nomo is an addiction recovery app that provides several essential tools and resources at no cost, earning it our award for Best Free Addiction Recovery App. Nomo allows you to track unlimited habits or addictions with sobriety clocks. You can give each “clock” a name and customize the tracking metrics. For instance, you can also track time or money saved when abstaining from your addiction. Nomo then provides badges for reaching milestones, like 30 days sober.

In addition to unlimited sobriety clocks, Nomo has a “Journal” section for monitoring things like mood, sleep quality, and triggers. There’s also a “Refocus” tab with games to distract you during cravings, and a “Resources” section that provides lists of helpful books, blogs, and websites that address various addictions and mental health issues. There’s even an option to connect with “Partners” – other Nomo members who share your same addiction.

Recovery Path is an addiction recovery app that utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) methods to help combat substance use disorder. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a form of therapy that aims to modify thoughts and behaviors in order to improve psychological functioning. CBT has been proven to enhance mood, curb depression, decrease anxiety, and treat substance use disorders.2 Recovery Path can act as an excellent introduction to CBT techniques and how they can help you change thoughts, emotions, and behaviors connected to substance abuse.

An example of a CBT exercise from Recovery Path is the “Ambivalence” activity I completed during one of my check-ins. I went through a series of workbook-style questions that examined any ambivalence I have toward quitting an addiction. For instance, I was asked to write down the positives and the negatives of having alcohol in my life, the benefits of quitting drinking entirely, and what I will miss about drinking. I was able to see how much more significant my reasons for quitting were in comparison to my reasons for continuing to drink.

The SMART Recovery app provides an impressive amount of resources in text, audio, and video format that cover a wide range of topics to help those in recovery, which is why it earned our award for the addiction recovery app with the Best Educational Tools. SMART Recovery is like carrying around a small library of materials that support your sobriety.

The “Toolbox” includes videos, worksheets, and brief summaries of various theories and methods that can help you better understand your addiction. Lessons include topics like Cost-Benefit Analysis, Goal Setting, and Unconditional Self-Acceptance. SMART Recovery’s podcasts, which can be found on the “Insight” tab, include enlightening discussions with those who have personal experiences in recovery. They cover subjects like medication treatment programs, triggers, recovery methods, common obstacles, and much more.

Workit Health offers FDA approved medication to treat several different forms of addiction, including alcohol, opioids, meth, and cocaine. You begin the process by answering a questionnaire about your addiction and personal goals. Next, you’ll attend an online orientation where you’ll meet your support care team and learn more about how Workit Health works. Finally, you’ll have an appointment with a medical provider to learn if medication is right for you.

Workit Health also provides medication and support for co-occurring mental health issues, which can be very common with substance use disorders. For instance, if you’re struggling with depression or anxiety as well as an addiction, Workit Health might be an excellent option for you. While they only offer medication assistance in select states, you can sign up for online coaching for a wide variety of addictions from anywhere in the U.S. Workit Health offers online coaching for gambling, sex, porn, drugs, smoking, disordered eating, and more.