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Steady is a sobriety and habit tracker for iOS and Android. It runs a live clock from the day you started, lets you check in daily, and tracks how much money you've saved along the way — all without an account, ads, or a social feed.

No. Steady has no sign-up and no login. Open the app, tell it what you're staying steady from, and your clock starts immediately.

On first launch, type in what you're tracking (alcohol, nicotine, or any habit) and, optionally, a daily cost. Tap "Start my clock" and Steady begins counting from that moment.

Tracking a single habit is free. Tracking multiple habits at once is part of the one-time Premium unlock — tap "Habits" on the home screen to add more once you've purchased it.

It's a live counter — days, hours, minutes, seconds — measured from the start date and time of your habit. It updates every second while the app is open.

Tapping "Check in" marks today as clean in your history. It's a one-tap way to log the day — it doesn't affect your clock by itself, and you can only check in once per day.

Nothing bad. Your clock keeps running as long as you haven't logged a relapse — a missed check-in just leaves that day blank in your history, it doesn't reset anything.

On the home screen, tap "Relapsed? Reset the clock" underneath the check-in button. Confirm, and Steady logs today as a relapse and restarts your clock from that moment. Your past history isn't erased — you can still see every previous day, including your resets, on the habit's history screen.

Open a habit's history screen to see a calendar of every day you've logged, marked clean or as a reset, plus a running count of how many resets you've had.

It's the daily cost you set when you started, multiplied by the exact time that's elapsed on your clock. It updates continuously, the same way the clock does.

Yes — open the habit, tap edit, and update the daily cost. The money-saved total recalculates from your original start date using the new figure.

The counter is optional. If you leave the daily cost blank (or zero) when you start, Steady simply won't show a savings figure until you add one.

Milestone notifications at 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 180, and 365 days on your current streak, plus an optional daily reminder to check in. You can turn either on or off in Settings → Notifications.

No. They're scheduled entirely on your device using your phone's local notification system — there's no push server involved, which is consistent with Steady not running any servers at all.

First, make sure notifications are enabled inside Steady (Settings → Notifications). If they're on there but you still don't see them, check your phone's system settings — Steady needs OS-level notification permission, which iOS and Android both require you to grant separately.

Yes. Milestones are tied to your current streak, so logging a relapse reschedules the 7/14/30/60/90/180/365-day notifications from your new start time.

No. Steady doesn't have a server, an account system, or a database with your name on it. Everything you enter — habits, check-ins, notes — lives only on your device by default. There's nothing for us to collect, and nothing to sell.

No. There's no social feed, no sharing, and no way for anyone else to see your habits or history unless you personally hand them your phone or an exported file.

Since your data lives only on your device, uninstalling Steady deletes it permanently — unless you've turned on cloud backup or exported a copy first. See "Backup & restore" below before you uninstall or switch phones.

Cloud backup is a Premium feature. When it's on, Steady encrypts your data on your device, then stores that encrypted copy in your own iCloud (iOS) or Google Drive (Android) — a space that belongs to you, which we have no access to and no way to read.

If cloud backup was turned on for your habit, install Steady on the new device and sign in to the same iCloud or Google account — Steady will find and restore your encrypted backup. Without backup enabled, data doesn't transfer between devices, since it's never stored anywhere but the original phone.

No, it's entirely optional and off by default. Steady works fully on-device without it — backup exists for people who want a safety net against losing or replacing their phone.

Yes. Go to Settings → Privacy → "Export my data" to save a plain-text copy of everything you've tracked — no cloud backup required, and nothing leaves your device except the file you choose to save or share.

Go to Settings → Privacy → "Delete all data." This permanently removes every habit and check-in on the device and cannot be undone, so export a copy first if you might want it later.

Tracking multiple habits at once, full analytics with charts and trends, premium accent themes, and encrypted cloud backup to your own iCloud or Google Drive.

No. Premium is a single, one-time purchase that unlocks everything for good — there are no recurring charges.

Go to Settings → About → "Restore purchase." Steady checks the App Store or Google Play account you purchased with and re-unlocks Premium — no new payment is made.

All purchases are handled by the App Store or Google Play, so refunds go through them rather than us — we don't have the ability to process refunds directly. Look up "request a refund" for Apple's or Google's support, depending on where you purchased.

The clock is based on your device's clock, so travelling across time zones can shift the displayed elapsed time by the same offset. The underlying start date doesn't change, and the display corrects itself once your device settles on the new local time.

Try closing and reopening the app first, then check the App Store or Google Play for a pending update. Avoid uninstalling to "fix" it if you haven't backed up or exported your data, since uninstalling erases it.

Email steady.app@lixlink.com — that's also the address in the app under Settings → About → "Contact support."