Health, home and travel decision
LiveSober
A small team or single competent developer can build and maintain the core features; prior open-source sobriety apps demonstrate feasibility, so self-building is realistic and cheaper than the recurring $9.99 tier if you need control.
View on the App Store↗$9.99/mo
$120/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off52 h to build
$25/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 4 seats.
Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need - the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship. All LiveSober alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- User sets sobriety date → app computes sober days and money saved → user writes daily reflection → data stored and visualized; optional subscription gating for premium features.
What it still won’t have
- App Store distribution, reviews and visibility
- Existing app store user base and ratings
- Any polished native iOS UX / native integrations (e.g. StoreKit)
- Developer-provided privacy statement tied into App Store listing
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 4 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal cross-platform sobriety tracker as a React (Expo) mobile app + Node.js serverless backend (Vercel) and SQLite (or Supabase) for optional cloud sync. Core features in scope: set/update sobriety date; compute and display sober days; money-saved calculator with user inputs; daily reflections (create/edit/delete) persisted locally and optionally synced; a progress dashboard with simple charts; Stripe subscription gating for premium features; CSV export and basic email-based account recovery. Out of scope: social feed, community features, advanced analytics, and accessibility certification. Include error handling, input validation, unit tests for core logic (date/calculation), and CI deploy scripts.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Build verdict base78
- An open-source build was found+5
- 3 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score93
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productLiveSober: Sobriety Tracker - App Store
- open sourcebrandonp2412/Quitter
- open sourceseaglade/Sobriety
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
