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Sobriety Counter Stop Drinking
Mario Herzberg · 2,816 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 37 negative reviews
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"long"
9 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Used to be great, now it’s nothing but ads. Any click prompts an ad it’s excessive for any app.. It also will give you notifications of 12 hours, despite you having 955 days in addition to those 12 hours. Could be disheartening to someone newly sober. It provides some decent health data hence the additional star, but having to wait thr…" - MissFireface
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"every"
8 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not usable. I used this app in the past and just redownloaded it. You can’t do anything within the app without another ad popping up. Every time you try to move around in the app to look at new information you have to go through another ad. Every time…" - 1999wasawesome
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"click"
7 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Used to be great, now it’s nothing but ads. Any click prompts an ad it’s excessive for any app.. It also will give you notifications of 12 hours, despite you having 955 days in addition to those 12 hours. Could be disheartening to someone newly sober. It provides some decent health data hence the additional star, but having to wait thr…" - MissFireface
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"game"
7 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Used to be great, now it’s nothing but ads. Any click prompts an ad it’s excessive for any app.. It also will give you notifications of 12 hours, despite you having 955 days in addition to those 12 hours. Could be disheartening to someone newly sober. It provides some decent health data hence the additional star, but having to wait thr…" - MissFireface
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"anything"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Used to be great, now it’s nothing but ads. Any click prompts an ad it’s excessive for any app.. It also will give you notifications of 12 hours, despite you having 955 days in addition to those 12 hours. Could be disheartening to someone newly sober. It provides some decent health data hence the additional star, but having to wait thr…" - MissFireface
6
"another"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Used to be great, now it’s nothing but ads. Any click prompts an ad it’s excessive for any app.. It also will give you notifications of 12 hours, despite you having 955 days in addition to those 12 hours. Could be disheartening to someone newly sober. It provides some decent health data hence the additional star, but having to wait thr…" - MissFireface
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"unusable"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Junk - Do not download.. Developers lied when they responded previously that the ads are skippable after 6 seconds. A once decent app is total unusable garbage now." - Dahlia Dearborn
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"looking"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Could Use Something Better for Cutting Back. I appreciate the health stuff and all the rewards. However, it lets me set up to show how many per week to cut down to to get to my goal. But it basically only gives you the opportunity to show the last drink you took and everything reboo…" - Just looking to be healthier
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"through"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Used to be great, now it’s nothing but ads. Any click prompts an ad it’s excessive for any app.. It also will give you notifications of 12 hours, despite you having 955 days in addition to those 12 hours. Could be disheartening to someone newly sober. It provides some decent health data hence the additional star, but having to wait thr…" - MissFireface
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"into"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Used to be great, now it’s nothing but ads. Any click prompts an ad it’s excessive for any app.. It also will give you notifications of 12 hours, despite you having 955 days in addition to those 12 hours. Could be disheartening to someone newly sober. It provides some decent health data hence the additional star, but having to wait thr…" - MissFireface
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"settings"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not usable. I used this app in the past and just redownloaded it. You can’t do anything within the app without another ad popping up. Every time you try to move around in the app to look at new information you have to go through another ad. Every time…" - 1999wasawesome
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"seconds"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Junk - Do not download.. Developers lied when they responded previously that the ads are skippable after 6 seconds. A once decent app is total unusable garbage now." - Dahlia Dearborn
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Ads
App is useful, ads are unbearable.
Unskippable Ads for Gambling on an app for addicts ??
Horrible- can’t even use the app because of the ads. Oh well.
Addicting Game Ad Platform
This is truly sick that you are running highly additive, unavoidable game ads on an app for people with addiction issues. Shame on you.
Worthless because of ads
So many ads you can’t actually do anything. Why? There’s no option to close out of the ads either so I’m just staring at a screen waiting for it to change and it won’t. Worthless
This app is a trigger!!
This app will cause u to drink bc of the ads and not able to get pass them!!
Not usable
I used this app in the past and just redownloaded it. You can’t do anything within the app without another ad popping up. Every time you try to move around in the app to look at new information you have to go through another ad. Every time! Even to just go to settings to adjust your information.
I understand a few ads, but this is over the top bad, and it destroys the app’s purpose.
I understand a few ads, but this is over the top bad, and it destroys the app’s purpose.
Literally an uncloseable ad for pressing any button
App is an absolute blight to use. Never in my LIFE have I gotten an ad that I CANNOT close for pressing the settings button. What a waste of space on the internet, devs should be absolutely ashamed
Junk - Do not download.
Developers lied when they responded previously that the ads are skippable after 6 seconds. A once decent app is total unusable garbage now.
Too many game ads!
Way too many game ads! You can’t even use the app. It used to be good.
Ad situation is now ridiculous
The ads are the type that force you to watch, for a long duration, with no option to skip or exit. This wasn’t always the case, but unfortunately, it makes the user experience very annoying now. The app is supposed to be helping people, not frustrating them.
Was good now, too many adds
After taking a hiatus from this app, I decided to reinstall it and now it’s barely usable. There are so many ads when you click on any button and it won’t let you out and redirect you to different game sites or whatever the ad is for it’s impossible to utilize so you have to keep deleting it and reinstalling it and then you get at least half a day of it acting normally, and then the ads pop up again. It used to be a really good app
Ads block usage
I have been using this app off and on for years. It always was awesome. There were ads here and there but I didn’t mind as they passed quickly and the app was really helpful. I downloaded it again a week ago and it’s pretty much unusable. Every time I open it and try to se my progress a Vagner app come on and stays there with no way to remove it for over five minutes. I get they need ads but this has made it impossible to use at all.
Too many ads
Used this app for years always had ads but now its out if hand I’ll just use a calendar old school
Couldn’t even get past the sign up page
Ad after ad that I couldn’t close. At least hook me first. Deleted it
ADS
Ads every time you click on something.
Ads
I get having to include ads for the free edition, but the ads were intrusive, long, and would always redirect to the app store. I hit settings and got an ad that wouldn't allow me to skip or exit from (even after 30 seconds). Avoid this app. Get the "Days Since" App instead.
Too many ads
The main page is great but I couldn’t get beyond that with so many ads popping up. I deleted the app.
Ads are a pain.
The app is making me watch an ad and then still won’t let me enter data, just goes into another ad.
No Longer Good
I’ve had this app off and on, and it used to be great. Unfortunately the adds are awful now, I had to sit through 2 minutes of adds just to get to the settings tab. The X button was hidden so after a few seconds you could exit out, and it automatically forced a pop up to purchase the product they were promoting.
Me
Won’t let me access sobriety screen because of game ads. Terrible
JFC, the ads.
It’s incredibly poor taste to stuff online gambling ads into an app for people struggling with addiction. And these ads have so completely infested the app as to make it unusable. I don’t mind looking at an ad here and there, or paying for an ad free version. This current iteration has me watching two extensive ads for EVERY SINGLE click. Do better.
A billion ads
Long ads anytime you even attempt to do anything with the app, I’m good.
Worst ad model
I had the app for 5 minutes and had to delete it. It had the types of things I wanted to track, but I’m not sitting for 30 seconds to watch a stupid game every time I click to use each app function. And this is coming from someone who works in advertising! Total failure. I’m shocked anyone uses this app.
Used to be great, now it’s nothing but ads. Any click prompts an ad it’s excessive for any app.
It also will give you notifications of 12 hours, despite you having 955 days in addition to those 12 hours. Could be disheartening to someone newly sober. It provides some decent health data hence the additional star, but having to wait through a game or app ad for one minute to see anything. And then wait another minute for another long ad if you click an item for more detail. It’s basically not a functional app unless you’re willing to pay. I’m biased though, I was using it years ago before it turned into spam.
Constant Ads
I couldn’t even get to anything good because anything I clicked on, there was a new game add, and it took so long to be able to leave the ad.
Used to be good, now riddled with ads
Used to love this app, now it’s an ad every time you want to switch tabs and no way to get rid of the ad. Going to switch to another platform now.
Could Use Something Better for Cutting Back
I appreciate the health stuff and all the rewards. However, it lets me set up to show how many per week to cut down to to get to my goal. But it basically only gives you the opportunity to show the last drink you took and everything reboots back… there’s no way to input and evaluate how many drinks during the week I’m drinking. For someone just looking to cut back, there should be some ways to see how those goals are being met…it’s prob much better for someone trying to quit altogether…
This was written by someone else and I 100% agree - I’ve been trying to figure out how to record how much I’m drinking and slowing down. There’s just a weekly countdown but no way to really apply that countdown unless you keep track elsewhere in which case - why bother with particular app.
This was written by someone else and I 100% agree - I’ve been trying to figure out how to record how much I’m drinking and slowing down. There’s just a weekly countdown but no way to really apply that countdown unless you keep track elsewhere in which case - why bother with particular app.
Annoying ads
I deleted almost immediately because it had those full screen popup ads that you can’t close. No opinion on the quality of the ap itself because i barely started using it before the ad came on.
Your ads are the worst
I love your app but in the last few months your ads have gotten sooooooo long! And anytime I switch from one section to another you have to watch them again. Many times after over 10 minutes of waiting, I restart my phone-that’s the only way to get back to the content. Looking for a new app.
Used to be great, too many ads now
It used to be great, now it’s constant ads.
The ads make me want a drink.
The ads make me want a drink.
Too many ads
The amount of ads and length they play make this app practically unusable
Too many ADs
The app used to be free and now it has a bunch of glitchy ads. It’s pretty terrible that I don’t have access to my information easily. If you are looking for a sobriety app look into others that are ad free and ethical.
Too many adds
App was great before. Now every time you click on something you have to go through a stupid add. Will be looking for a better app
Ads ads ads
I used to like this app despite having features you had to pay to use - which I won’t pay for- Now they added in ads in the 2 main features I use. We are not talking quick ads. No they are more like a minute long. Unless the ads are removed I will be deleting this app.
Adverts are really distracting
There used to not be ads when I used this months ago and I really appreciated the app. I started using it again and now there are ads - including for gambling sites. This is really distracting and not at all helpful.
Great app ruined by ads
I understand the need to get compensation for this work but, the ads are so long and often now that this is nearly unusable for me.
Favorite sobriety app... until the constant ads started!
My favorite app in recovery! It has so many things to track! This would have been a 5 star review but sadly, the most recent update now gives you constant ads every time you click on something. The ads are long, repetitive, and annoying. I've stopped using the app because it isn't worth the hassle and frustration anymore. Really bummed they changed it...
Sentiment summary
93%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)