Looking to reduce alcohol consumption or maintain sobriety? Check out our top picks to help you on your recovery journey.
Daybreak App by Hello Sunday Morning
The Daybreak App helps you change your relationship with alcohol. Whether your goal is to reduce your drinking, or complete abstinence, Daybreak is here to support you and your choice. The app provides: a drink tracker; peer community; personal improvement; anonymous, safe and secure environment; technical support.
Reasons to download the daybreak app:
- Chose between being alcohol-free, reducing your drinking or maintaining your existing level of alcohol consumption
- Learn about your personal triggers that lead to your drinking
- Be inspired
- Professionally informed
- Designed and developed by Hello Sunday Morning, a not-for-profit organisation with over 10 years experience using technology to help reduce the stigma around alcohol
Daybreak is Free for all Australians and is funded by the Australian Government, Department of Health.
- Download on Google Play
- Download on the App Store
SWiPE
SWiPE uses evidence-based brain training to help users avoid alcohol cues and strengthen conscious control over their drinking.
- Individually-tailored training to your personal vices and values
- Simple, easy and quick to use (just 2 training sessions a week)
- Backed by scientific research showing reduced drinking
- Convenient, anonymous, no sign-up account needed
How it works
SWiPE uses a form of brain training known as Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM).
With regular drinking our brains adapt so we more readily notice and respond to things associated with alcohol (like the sight of a pub, or an alcoholic drink in an advert or on TV). As a result, we develop a cognitive bias to these alcohol cues, where our response to them becomes more automatic. Since our brains take short-cuts to reward/pleasure, the mere presence of alcohol cues alone can trigger the desire to drink.
By being trained to repeatedly respond to alcohol cues with an avoidance movement using CBM , we can reduce our automatic response to them in real life. In randomised controlled trials conducted by Monash University, just 4 sessions of CBM reduced the likelihood of relapsing after detoxification treatment by 17-30%.
I Am Sober App 
The I Am Sober App is more than just a free sobriety counter app, Along with tracking your sober days, it helps you build new habits and provides ongoing motivation by connecting you to a wide network of people all striving for the same goal: staying sober one day at a time.
Features:
- Sober days tracker
- Remember why you quit your addiction
- Daily pledge reminder
- Sobriety calculator to see how much money and time you have saved being sober
- Analyse triggers
- Share your story
- Milestone tracker
This app is free, however there is a subscription to access premium features, including creating groups, locked access, data backups, sobriety counter for all addictions.
- Download on Google Play
- Download on the App Store
Published: 7 June 2024
