Quit alcohol
Your next drink doesn't have to become your next relapse.
One evening decides most of it. Not the resolution you made in January — the twenty minutes after someone offers, or after a day that went badly.
Unhooked is a quit alcohol app and sobriety tracker: an alcohol-free day counter, money saved, a health recovery timeline, milestone tracking, a 15-minute urge timer for cravings, and an AI coach for the evenings that get difficult.
Why a counter helps
The number is doing more work than it looks like.
A day count seems almost too simple to matter. In practice it's one of the more reliable motivators available, for a mundane reason: quitting is mostly invisible. Nothing happens. Nobody notices. The reward for a good week is the absence of a bad one.
A number that goes up turns that absence into something you can see. It also makes the cost of a slip concrete in a way that "I'd be disappointed in myself" never quite manages — which is exactly what you want available at the moment of decision.
Unhooked puts it on your home screen, your lock screen, and the first thing you see when you open the app.
What comes back
Money, hours, and a timeline of what's recovering.
Enter what you used to spend in a week and the app keeps a running total of what you've kept. For a lot of people this is the number that lands hardest, because it converts an abstract decision into a figure they recognise.
Alongside it: the hours you'd have spent drinking or recovering from drinking, and a day-by-day health timeline explaining in plain language what tends to change and when — sleep, hydration, blood pressure, and so on, with each entry unlocking as you reach it.
The health timeline is general educational information, not medical advice, and individual experiences vary.
Alcohol cravings
What to do when you get an alcohol craving.
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Put fifteen minutes on it
Start the Urge Timer before you decide anything. Most urges are much smaller on the other side of a quarter of an hour.
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Have your line ready
Most slips happen in a social moment, not alone. Deciding in advance what you'll say when someone offers removes the part where you improvise under pressure.
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Check what you'd be spending
The craving screen shows your streak and what it would cost. Making the trade explicit is often enough to change it.
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Talk it through
Tell the coach what's happening. Naming the trigger — the day, the person, the feeling — reliably takes some of the charge out of it.
Why an app
Why use a sobriety app?
Because quitting drinking is almost entirely invisible, and invisible progress is hard to stay motivated by. Nothing happens. Nobody congratulates you. The reward for a good month is the absence of a bad one, which is a very thin thing to hold on to at 9pm on a difficult evening.
A sobriety tracker converts that into something you can actually see: days, money kept, hours reclaimed, and a health timeline that moves. It also makes the cost of a slip concrete at the moment you're deciding, which is more use than a vague sense that you'd be disappointed in yourself.
And it's available at the hour that matters. Meetings and appointments are scheduled; cravings aren't. Having a timer and a coach one tap away covers the gap between the evening it gets hard and the next time you can talk to someone.
What's in it
A sobriety tracker that does more than count.
Alcohol-free day counter
Days, hours and minutes, with widgets for your lock screen and home screen.
Money saved
Your own spend, tracked from day one and totalled as it accumulates.
Health timeline
What tends to recover and roughly when, in plain language, unlocking day by day.
Urge Timer
Fifteen minutes of structure, your reason, and what's at stake — on one screen.
AI coach
Available at the hour you actually need it, including after a slip.
Milestones
Day 1, day 7, day 30, six months, a year — each earned and shareable.
Questions about quitting alcohol
Is it safe to stop drinking suddenly?
Not always. If you drink heavily every day, stopping abruptly can be medically serious — alcohol withdrawal can cause seizures and requires medical supervision in some cases. Please talk to a doctor before you stop. Unhooked is a tracking and support app, not a medical service, and it can't assess your risk.
Do I have to be an alcoholic to use it?
No, and most people using it wouldn't describe themselves that way. Plenty of users are simply drinking more than they want to and would like to stop, or are doing a sober month and want it to stick.
What if I slip?
You log it and start again. The app keeps your total sober days, your best streak and every comeback, so a reset takes the counter to zero without erasing what you've done. Getting back the next day is the thing that matters.
Does it show how much money I've saved?
Yes. You enter what you used to spend and the app tracks the total from your quit date onwards, alongside the hours reclaimed.
Is this a replacement for AA or therapy?
No. It's a tracker and a craving tool, and it works alongside meetings, counselling or treatment rather than instead of them. If you're in crisis, contact your local emergency services.
How do I stop drinking?
Start by talking to a doctor if you drink heavily every day, because stopping abruptly can be medically serious in that case. Beyond that: set a date and start counting, work out which situations and moods are risky for you, decide in advance what you'll say and drink when you're offered one, and have something to do with the craving when it arrives rather than relying on resolve.
How do I deal with alcohol cravings?
Put fifteen minutes on it before you decide anything — most urges are considerably smaller on the other side of a quarter of an hour. Because alcohol cravings are usually social rather than solitary, the other half is preparation: having your line ready for when someone offers means you're not improvising under pressure with everyone watching.
How do I stay sober long term?
The pattern that holds up is unglamorous: keep the streak visible, keep the risky situations planned for rather than avoided forever, and get back to it fast on the occasions it goes wrong. Watch the point where it starts feeling easy — that's a common moment for people to relax and treat one drink as a reasonable experiment. Many people also find ongoing support, whether meetings or counselling, is what makes the difference over years rather than months.
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