Sober44 vs My Spiritual Toolkit AA Steps

Quick answer

My Spiritual Toolkit AA Steps, called My Spiritual Toolkit in its own description, is an AA step-work app with a sobriety counter from LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP NET, LLC. It has been on the App Store since 2013 for iPhone and iPad and is also on Android, and its listing adds a free web app. The catch is that it states no drink log, taper plan or money figure. Its in-app purchase list also sells $2.99 unlocks for sponsor email, the gratitude list and the PIN lock, features the description presents without a price.

Sober44, listed on the App Store as Alcohol Free Tracker - Sober44, counts sober time to the second and can run a step-down taper to a quit day, with daily check-ins, craving tools and money saved from your own spend. It’s free to download. Pro costs $29.99 a year or $2.99 a week after a 7-day free trial, and the store page doesn’t say which features need Pro.

If you’re working the steps with a sponsor, go with My Spiritual Toolkit AA Steps. If you want to log the drinking itself day by day, or cut back before a quit date, go with Sober44.

Side-by-side

Where My Spiritual Toolkit AA Steps wins

It is built for working the steps. The Spot Check Inventory is based on Step 10, per its listing, and walks through resentments, fears, personal conduct and harms done. The Nightly Inventory asks 10 questions from the Big Book, as suggested in Step 11, and tracks your answers over time. The app also reads the AA Daily Reflection from the Alcoholics Anonymous website and carries the Serenity, Third Step and Seventh Step prayers, with the Acceptance Prayer added in 2026. In recent US reviews, most of them five-star, reviewers often praise the prayers and the nightly inventory. Sober44’s listing mentions no step-work or AA tools.

Your sponsor can see the work. Its listing says you can text or email journals, inventories and gratitude lists to a sponsor or trusted adviser, and share sobriety milestones with friends in the fellowship. Some reviewers say their sponsor recommended the app. The listing adds that the icon has no AA references and that there is a PIN lock. The in-app purchase list, though, sells $2.99 unlocks for the PIN lock and for emailing the journal and nightly inventory to a sponsor. Whether those are free today is not stated. Sober44 shares image cards with days sober and money saved. Its listing mentions no sponsor features.

Your work survives a lost phone. The listing says it backs up your data to a private encrypted server, so it comes back if you lose your phone, switch devices or reinstall. It also claims a free web app at myspiritualtoolkit.com that syncs with the iOS app, and an Export My Data option added in March 2026. Sober44 keeps its data on the device, and its listing states no backup or export.

It has years of ratings and a lower yearly price. It has been on the App Store since 2013 and holds 4.9 stars from 12,900 US ratings, plus 4.9 stars from about 9,800 reviews on Google Play. Its listing says it is “helping over 100,000 members of Alcoholics Anonymous.” Premium Yearly is $19.99, which is $10 less than Sober44 Pro at $29.99 a year. The listing also offers 100% hardship discounts to anyone who can’t afford Premium. Sober44 has been on the App Store since 2026 and has no ratings there yet.

Where Sober44 wins

It logs the drinking, not only the date. My Spiritual Toolkit counts from a sobriety or clean date, and its listing states no drink log, mood check-in or money figure. Sober44 asks for one check-in a day: sober or drank, mood, trigger and a note. It charts triggers (stress, social, habit, boredom) and mood over 30, 60 or 90 days. It also works out money saved from your own weekly spend, plus drinks and calories avoided, as projections from the drink profile you enter.

You can cut back before you stop. My Spiritual Toolkit’s listing frames recovery as a daily reprieve from alcoholism within the AA program and states no taper plan. Sober44 lets you quit now, or set a quit day with a countdown and a step-down drink target for every day until then. Its listing also says alcohol withdrawal can be dangerous, and that you should talk to a doctor or a qualified professional before you stop drinking.

Cravings have their own tools. My Spiritual Toolkit’s listing names no craving log or breathing exercise. The closest things are its prayers and the Spot Check Inventory, for when people or events throw you off balance. Sober44 has a craving log that never resets the sober counter, guided box breathing, 10 meditation tracks with one suggested from your recent mood, and a nudge at the hour your cravings usually start. If you slip, the counter restarts, but an honest “drank” check-in does not break your check-in streak.

No account, and the data stays on your phone. My Spiritual Toolkit’s listing says it backs up your data to a server and syncs with a web app. Sober44 needs no account, works offline, and keeps your check-ins, cravings, journal and selfies on the device. Its privacy label declares no data used to track you and lists Purchases, Identifiers, Usage Data and Diagnostics as Data Not Linked to You, used for analytics.

Pricing

• Sober44 is free to download, with Pro at $29.99 a year or $2.99 a week after a 7-day free trial. The store page does not say which features are free and which need Pro.
• My Spiritual Toolkit AA Steps by LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP NET, LLC. is free to download, and its listing says the majority of the app is free. Premium adds unlimited entries for journals, spot check inventories, nightly inventories and gratitude lists, and costs $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year. A Lifetime Premium Package is also listed at $9.99. The store page doesn’t spell out what the yearly and lifetime packages each include, or whether the lifetime package is still sold to new users. Five more $2.99 unlocks are listed: emailing your nightly inventory to your sponsor, the gratitude list, extra spot check types, an enhanced PIN lock, and emailing your journal to your sponsor. No trial is stated. Hardship discounts are available, per its listing.

Over a year, Sober44 Pro is $29.99 on the annual plan and My Spiritual Toolkit Premium is $19.99 on its yearly plan. That makes My Spiritual Toolkit $10 cheaper. Sober44’s weekly plan adds up to $155.48 over 52 weeks.

Which one should you pick?

Pick My Spiritual Toolkit AA Steps if you are working the 12 steps and want your Spot Check and Nightly Inventories, the AA Daily Reflection, prayers, a gratitude list and a sobriety counter in one place, shared with your sponsor and backed up to a server and a web app.

Pick Sober44 if you want to track the drinking itself: a quit day or a step-down taper, a daily check-in with mood and trigger, craving tools, and money and drinks saved from your own numbers, with no account and the data kept on your iPhone, iPad or Android phone.

To put a number on what drinking costs you before you install anything, our free alcohol spending calculator runs in the browser with no download. To see how both apps sit next to the other trackers we looked at, read our roundup of alcohol-free tracker apps.