Sober44 vs Nomo - Sobriety Clocks

Quick answer

Nomo - Sobriety Clocks by Parker Stech is a free sobriety clock for any habit, drinking included, with a community wall and accountability partners built in. It has been on the App Store since 2012 and runs on iPhone, iPad and Android. The downsides: both stores declare ads, and its listing has no plan for cutting back before you quit.

Sober44 (listed on both stores as Alcohol Free Tracker - Sober44) counts sober time to the second. It uses your own drink profile to work out the money, drinks and calories you avoid, and it has a taper plan if you’d rather cut back first. The download is free, and Pro is $29.99 a year or $2.99 a week after a 7-day free trial.

Pick Nomo if you want one free app for several habits, plus other people to lean on. For an alcohol-only tracker with a taper plan, drink counts and no ads, pick Sober44.

Side-by-side

Where Nomo - Sobriety Clocks wins

It has years of ratings behind it. Nomo has been on the App Store since 2012 and has 4.8 stars there from 16,500 ratings. Google Play shows 4.9 stars from 2,000 reviews and 100K+ installs. Sober44 only arrived in 2026 and has no App Store ratings yet.

It is free, with no in-app purchases. Neither store lists an in-app purchase for Nomo, and the listing doesn’t split its features into free and paid. Reviewers say it is free with no subscription or paywall. Ads are the trade-off. The App Store marks it “Contains Advertising” and Google Play says “Contains ads”, though reviewers report seeing few or none. One caveat on those reviews: nearly all of the most recent US ones were written before the September 2026 rebuild, so they describe the older app.

Other people are part of the app. The listing names a community encouragement wall, accountability partner search, private messaging with partners and clock sharing. You can notify partners when you feel tempted or when a clock resets. Since May 2026 you can also share a clock by link or QR code with people who don’t have the app. A Connect wall for posts about your recovery came in October 2025, and reviewers say the community is supportive. Sober44’s listing names no community or partner features.

One app covers many habits. You can create as many clocks as you need, and the listing names 50 habits, among them caffeine, gambling, social media and work. Clocks can count in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years. A PIN or Face ID or Touch ID lock keeps other people out, and the iOS app is translated into 9 languages. Sober44’s listing covers alcohol only and does not state support for more than one counter.

Where Sober44 wins

Nomo’s listing states no plan for cutting back. Its clocks count time from a start date, and the listing describes no taper or daily drink target. With Sober44 you can quit now or set a future quit day. Until that day you get a step-down drink target for every day, a countdown and morning reminders with the day’s target. The Sober44 listing also says alcohol withdrawal can be dangerous and that you should talk to a doctor or a qualified professional before you stop drinking.

Nomo counts time and money, not drinks. Its listing shows money saved and a progress breakdown down to the minute. A Calorie Calculator shows up only in the May 2026 release notes. Drinks avoided is not stated, and the milestone tokens mark time, not health changes. Sober44 takes the drink profile you enter and works out money, drinks and calories avoided, with projections out to one year. It also lists nine milestones from 20 minutes to one year, plus liver, heart and brain rings. Its listing calls these general estimates for motivation, not medical advice.

Nomo’s listing names no craving log or mood chart. What it has instead is Refocus mini-distraction exercises, which its release notes describe as “for when you’re fighting a craving”, and a way to alert partners when you feel tempted. Sober44 logs each craving with its intensity and trigger, and logging one doesn’t reset the counter. It charts mood over 30, 60 or 90 days next to a trigger breakdown. On top of that you get box breathing, 10 meditation tracks and a daily selfie timelapse.

Nomo declares ads and data linked to you. Both stores mark it as containing ads. On its App Store privacy label, Contact Info, Identifiers and User Content are listed as linked to you, and User Content under Third-Party Advertising is listed as not linked to you. Where your clocks are stored is not stated. Sober44 has no ads and needs no account. It keeps check-ins, cravings, journal entries and selfies on the device, and its label has no Data Linked to You section.

Pricing

• Sober44 is free to download, with no ads and no account. Pro costs $29.99 a year or $2.99 a week after a 7-day free trial. The store page doesn’t spell out what Pro adds.
• Nomo - Sobriety Clocks by Parker Stech is free, and neither the App Store nor Google Play lists an in-app purchase. Both stores declare ads. Home-screen widgets come through the developer’s separate Nomo Widgets App, and this listing doesn’t give its price. Donations aren’t mentioned in the listing, though reviewers mention donating to the developer.

Over a year, Nomo costs nothing. Sober44 Pro is $29.99 on the annual plan, or $155.48 if you paid the weekly price for 52 weeks.

Which one should you pick?

Pick Nomo - Sobriety Clocks if you want a free clock for several habits at once, plus the social pieces: a community wall, accountability partners, messaging and shared clocks. You’ll also need to be fine with a store listing that declares ads.

Pick Sober44 if you want an alcohol-only tracker with a step-down taper to a quit day and your drinks, calories and money avoided worked out from your own drink profile. You also get a craving log with mood and trigger charts, no ads, no account, and your entries kept on the device.

Want to see what drinking costs you before installing either one? Our free alcohol spending calculator works it out by week, month and year, right in the browser with no download. For the rest of the apps we looked at, see the best alcohol-free tracker apps.