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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, takes a daily check-in, and tracks how much money you've saved. It has no account, no ads, and no 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. Go to Settings → Habits to add more once you've purchased it. With more than one habit, tap the habit's name above the clock to switch between them.

It's a live counter of days, hours, minutes, and 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 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 leaves that day blank in your history and doesn't reset anything.

On the Today tab, 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, then shows a short note with links to your toolkit. Your past check-ins aren't erased. They stay on your device, and with Premium the habit's history screen shows them, resets included.

Open the History tab, or tap "History" next to a habit in Settings → Habits. With Premium, you'll see your current and longest streak, total days steady, days steady this year, resets, a month-by-month calendar (steady days shaded, check-ins ✓, resets ✕, and a colored dot for your mood on days you logged one), and the milestones you've reached. Every check-in stays on your device either way, and an export includes all of them.

A quick way to note how you're doing: your mood (Rough to Great), how strong a craving is (None to Intense), what's going on (triggers like Stress or Social event), and an optional note. Every part is optional. Open the Journal tab, or tap "How are you feeling?" after you check in. The journal is free.

Only you. Entries are stored on your phone like everything else in Steady. They're included in your encrypted backup and your data export, and Delete all data removes them.

Open Journal and tap the entry. Change anything and tap Save, or tap "Delete entry" at the bottom.

Yes. Tap "+ New" while logging, or "Edit triggers" to add, rename or archive them. Archiving hides a trigger from new entries but keeps it on the ones you've already logged.

Insights is part of Premium. Over the last 30 or 90 days it shows your mood and craving trends, when cravings tend to be strongest by time of day and day of the week, and which triggers come up most, in plain sentences like "Stress came up on 9 of your last 30 days. Cravings were stronger on those days." It's all worked out on your phone. Insights describe patterns in what you've logged; they aren't medical advice.

They appear once 10 entries in the period have a trigger tagged, so a few early entries don't read as a pattern. Insights shows how many more you need.

Open the Breathe tab. You'll find a note you wrote to yourself in advance, the first of your reasons, a breathing guide, people you can call or text, and helplines. It works offline, except for the calls themselves, and it's free for everyone.

Open the toolkit and tap "Add your reasons", or "All" next to Your reason. Write each one in your own words, up to 280 characters. Use the arrows to put the one that matters most first; that's the one the toolkit shows.

Pick Box (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4) or 4-7-8 (in for 4, hold for 7, out for 8), then tap "Start breathing". The circle grows as you breathe in and shrinks as you breathe out, with a countdown. Your phone vibrates gently at each step unless you turn vibration off.

No. You type in the names and numbers yourself, so Steady never asks for your contacts. Call and Text open your phone's own Phone and Messages apps; Steady doesn't place calls or send messages itself. The numbers stay on your phone, and in your encrypted backup if you use one.

In the US: the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) and the SAMHSA National Helpline for substance use (1-800-662-4357). Elsewhere, Steady links to findahelpline.com to find one in your country. You can also add your own number, such as a local support line, and it shows above the others.

Steady picks the US numbers from your phone's region setting, such as English (United States).

No. Steady is a self-tracking tool. If you or someone else is in danger, call your local emergency number. In the US, you can call or text 988 any time.

Steady shows a short note with how long you were steady, your first reason, and links to your toolkit. Those days still count: with Premium, History keeps every past streak and shows your steady days this year.

Yes. Open the habit's Edit screen and tap "Start over completely". After you confirm, Steady deletes that habit's check-ins and past streaks and starts the clock from now. Journal entries stay. This can't be undone.

Go to Settings → App lock and turn on "Lock Steady". Steady then asks for Face ID, Touch ID or your fingerprint when you open it, with your phone's passcode as a backup. You choose whether it locks immediately when you leave, or after 1 or 5 minutes.

Use your phone's passcode. There's no separate Steady code to remember or reset. If your phone has no passcode, set one in your phone's settings first; app lock needs it.

No. Your phone checks them itself and only tells Steady whether it matched. Steady never receives or stores any biometric data.

Milestone notifications stop naming your habit. Steady is hidden in the app switcher. On Android, that also blocks screenshots of Steady, because Android uses the same setting for both.

No. It stays on the phone where you turned it on, so restoring a backup can't lock you out of a new phone. Turn it on again there if you'd like.

It's the daily cost you set when you started, multiplied by the time 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 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. While app lock is on, milestone notifications don't name your habit.

No. They're scheduled on your device using your phone's local notification system. Steady doesn't run a push server, or any other server.

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. It asks when you add your first habit; if you said no, Settings → Notifications shows a button to turn notifications back on.

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

No. The Steady app has no server, no account system, and no database with your name on it. Everything you enter (habits, check-ins, journal entries, reasons, the people in your toolkit) lives only on your device by default. There's nothing for us to collect and nothing to sell. This website does use basic Google Analytics, which the app does not. See the Privacy Policy.

No. There's no social feed and no sharing. Nobody else can see your habits or history unless you hand them your phone or an exported file.

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

Automatic cloud backup is a Premium feature. To set it up, open Settings → Cloud backup (on Android, link Google Drive first) and tap "Create recovery key". Your key is 20 letters and numbers, like K7Q2M-9XAB4-…. Save it somewhere safe, such as a password manager. Steady encrypts your data on your device with that key, then stores the encrypted copy in your own iCloud (iOS) or Google Drive (Android). We can't access that space, and without your recovery key nobody, including us, can read the backup. You can view your key anytime in Settings → Cloud backup.

After that, it's automatic: Steady backs up a few seconds after you make a change and whenever you leave the app. Settings shows when your last backup finished, for example "Backed up 2 min ago", and the home screen tells you if a backup needs your attention.

If cloud backup was on, install Steady on the new phone and tap "Restore from backup" on the first screen, or go to Settings → Cloud backup. On Android, link the same Google account. Tap "I have a recovery key", enter the key you saved, and tap "Restore from backup". Restoring is free; to keep backing up automatically, restore Premium too (Settings → About → "Restore purchase"). Without backup, your data doesn't transfer between devices, because it's stored only on the original phone.

If you've lost your recovery key, the backup can't be opened. That's what keeps it private. You can still start fresh with a new key.

No. Steady works fully on-device without it, and nothing is backed up until you create a recovery key. Backup is a safety net if you lose or replace your phone. Steady also opts out of Android's own device backup, so your data is never copied anywhere unencrypted.

Yes. Go to Settings → Privacy → "Export my data" to save a plain-text copy of everything you've tracked. You don't need cloud backup, 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, check-in, journal entry, reason and toolkit contact on the device and can't be undone, so export a copy first if you might want it later.

Tracking multiple habits at once, a full history screen with streaks, milestones and a calendar, mood and craving insights, premium accent themes, and encrypted cloud backup to your own iCloud or Google Drive. The toolkit, your reasons and app lock are free for everyone.

No. Premium is a single, one-time purchase. 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. You don't pay again.

The App Store or Google Play handles all purchases, so refunds go through them, not us. We can't process refunds directly. Search "request a refund" on Apple's or Google's support site, depending on where you bought Premium.

The clock is based on your device's clock, so crossing 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.

Close and reopen the app first, then check the App Store or Google Play for a pending update. Don't uninstall to "fix" it if you haven't backed up or exported your data, because uninstalling erases it.

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