A private place for your recovery
Track your clean days, ride out urges and keep your daily routines close. Everything stays on your phone or computer. Realistic, not perfect.
Coming soon to Google Play and Windows. Free to start. For adults aged 18 and over. iPhone coming later.
Run a service? See Steady for organisations
- No account
- Stays on your device
- Works offline
- No ads or tracking
For the everyday part of recovery
Steady is a quiet place to keep track, plan your day and get through the hard moments. Use as much or as little of it as you like.
Clean days that only go up
Your total clean days only go up, and milestones stay once you reach them. A slip is information, not a verdict. There's no "streak broken" screen.
An urge toolkit
Ride out an urge like a wave. Breathe along with a guide, read your own reasons, or call someone from your list.
Morning and evening routines
Small actions you repeat each day. Tick what you do, and skip what doesn't fit today.
Steps, tools, or both
Twelve Step work in plain words, or self-management tools that draw on cognitive behavioural ideas. Switch off what you don't use.
Quick check-ins
A ten-second check-in each evening keeps your numbers honest. Log urges too, and look back at what helped.
Appointments
Your key worker, doctor or group, all in one place. Reminders only say "Appointment", so nothing private shows on your lock screen.
Support, one tap away
Helplines for your country and your emergency number, on every screen. Even on the lock screen.
Plain safety information
If stopping something suddenly can be dangerous, Steady says so, and suggests you talk to a doctor first.
Made to fit you
Lock it with a PIN. Make backups when you choose. Large text, and light and dark mode.
A look inside
Track 
Urge toolkit 
Routines 
Step work 
Tools 
Support
For family and friends
It belongs to them
Steady is private to the person using it. Their records stay on their own device, and Steady doesn't share them with anyone, including you. That's on purpose.
If you're worried about someone's drug use, you can call FRANK too, on 0300 123 6600.
Giving Steady as a gift
The free version costs nothing, so you can simply share this page. To give someone Steady Plus, get in touch at SteadyRecoveryApp@gmail.com, and we'll send you a licence key to pass on.
Give your clients a private place for their recovery
For treatment centres, recovery charities, drug and alcohol services, sober living houses and peer groups. There's nothing for you to run.
Nothing to set up
No accounts, staff logins or systems on your side. We send you a licence key, and you pass it on to clients.
No client data, for anyone
Steady doesn't send client data to us or to you. Everything stays on the client's own device.
Priced by people, not places
Each licence covers one district. The price depends on how many people you support there in a year, however many sites you have. You tell us the number. Steady never counts anyone.
Your service, in Support
Your licence key adds your service's name and phone number to Support, next to the helplines.
Clients keep everything
Clients who enter your key get everything in Steady Plus. They keep it, even after your licence ends.
Fits any approach
Twelve Step, self-management, or both. Clients choose, and can change their mind later.
Support on every screen
Helplines and the emergency number are always one tap away, even when the app is locked.
Cards to hand out
Print our A6 client cards. They say how to get Steady and where to find help.
Simple to buy
One yearly licence. We accept invoices and purchase orders.
Free 3-month pilot
Early organisations can try Steady free for 3 months. Tell us your service's name and the phone number you'd like clients to see, and we'll send you a licence key.
A note for your data protection lead
Steady doesn't send client data to us or to you. We don't receive, store or process any of it, so there's no client data for a data processing agreement to cover for the app itself.
The licence key holds only your service's name and phone number, and it's checked on the client's device. Please make your own check, as you would for any app you suggest to clients. Our privacy policy and terms of use have the details.
What we never collect
Steady is private by default. It isn't a setting you have to find. It's how the app is built.
We never collect
- Your name, email address or phone number
- What you track, log or write
- Your location or your contacts
- How or when you use the app
- Anything for adverts. There are none.
How it works instead
- Everything you enter stays in Steady's own storage on your device.
- No account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. It works offline.
- Backups are files you save yourself, wherever you choose.
- A licence key is checked on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
- Reminders only say "Morning routine", "Evening routine" or "Appointment".
- Delete everything in Settings, or uninstall the app, and it's gone. We hold nothing, so there's nothing for us to delete.
A PIN locks the app. It doesn't encrypt your records, so keep your phone or computer locked too. This website has no cookies, analytics or tracking either. Read the privacy policy.
Free to start. Pay once for more.
For individuals
Steady
Free
Everything you need day to day.
- Clean days, milestones and patterns
- The urge toolkit
- Morning and evening routines
- Step work and self-management tools
- Evening check-ins (with mood and cravings) and urge logs
- Appointments, with reminders
- Support and helplines on every screen
- PIN lock, backups, large text, dark mode
Coming soon to Google Play and Windows.
Help test it on AndroidSteady Plus
£19.99one-off
Pay once. No subscription. All future updates included. Everything in Steady, plus:
- Insights+: charts and patterns. Your mood and cravings, your best and hardest days, when urges hit, and the triggers you handle best
- Progress+: a summary of your progress, with highlights, a calendar and your own words, to print or share
- Savings+: the money you haven't spent since you started, and a goal to save towards
- Celebrate+: milestone cards to keep or share, which never say what you stopped unless you want them to
- Security+: backups locked with a password, so only you can open them
- Themes+: six colour themes, to make the app feel like yours
One payment, and every future update is included. You get a licence key to enter in Settings. On Android phones, everything in Steady Plus is included for now, so there's no need to buy it there.
Pay it forward
Buy Steady Plus for yourself, and if you can, for others who can't afford it. Every extra licence goes to someone who has asked for help with the cost.
Buying opens soon. On Android phones, everything in Steady Plus is included for now.
- Me myselfYour own licence£19.99
- Me + 1You, and 1 person who can't afford it£39.98
- Me + 2You, and 2 people who can't afford it£59.97
- Me + 3You, and 3 people who can't afford it£79.96
- Me + 4You, and 4 people who can't afford it£99.95
- Me + 5You, and 5 people who can't afford it£119.94
- Me + 6You, and 6 people who can't afford it£139.93
No one should be left behind because of money. Email SteadyRecoveryApp@gmail.com to ask for any of these, all in the same way:
- More licences for others (more than 6)
- A subsidised licence (you pay what you can afford, anywhere from 1p to £19.98)
- A full scholarship (Steady Plus for free, paid for by someone else's pay-it-forward licence)
You don't need to explain why. Every licence includes all future updates.
For organisations
Yearly licences, each for one district (a local council area), priced by how many people you support there in a year. Sites and houses make no difference. Prices exclude VAT.
Community
£49a year
Small community organisations, up to 50 people a year.
Small
£199a year
Up to 100 people a year.
Medium
£995a year
Up to 500 people a year.
Large
£1,995a year
Up to 1,000 people a year.
Extra large
£3,995a year
Up to 2,500 people a year.
Whole district
£5,000a year
More than 2,500 people a year.
Each licence covers one district. If your organisation works in more than one, you'll need a licence for each.
Every licence includes
- No counting or tracking of clients
- Steady Plus for every client who enters your key
- Your service's name and phone number in Support
- Printable leaflets and client cards
- Help by email
- Invoices and purchase orders accepted
Start with a free 3-month pilot
For early organisations. No commitment. At the end, choose a licence or stop.
Questions people ask
Using Steady
Is Steady really private?
Yes. Everything you enter stays in Steady's own storage on your phone or computer. There's no account, and Steady doesn't send your records anywhere. Lightkeeper Studio never receives them and can't see them.
What happens if I slip?
You can log it if you want to. Your total clean days stay where they are, and so do your milestones. A slip is information, not a verdict.
Steady also shows some plain safety information, because tolerance drops quickly after a break.
Do I need the internet?
No. Steady works offline. You only need a connection to download it, or to open a website from inside it.
What if I lose my phone, or get a new one?
Your records are only on your device, so we can't get them back for you. Make a backup now and then, in Settings, and keep the file somewhere private. You can restore it on your new device.
An ordinary backup file isn't encrypted. With Steady Plus, Security+ locks a backup with a password, so it can't be opened without it. Opening a locked backup is always free.
Can my key worker, sponsor or family see my records?
Not unless you show them. Steady doesn't send anything to anyone, and that includes your service.
Is Steady a medical app?
No. Steady supports recovery. It isn't medical treatment or a medical device, and it doesn't give medical advice.
Keep your doctor, drug and alcohol service, sponsor or recovery worker in the loop. Talk to a doctor before you stop or cut down alcohol or other drugs, because stopping some of them suddenly can be dangerous.
Is it part of AA, NA or SMART Recovery?
No. Steady is not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous or SMART Recovery. You can use it alongside any fellowship or programme, or none. It describes the Steps in its own words.
Who can use Steady?
Adults aged 18 and over.
If you're under 18, you don't have to deal with this on your own. Childline is free, 24/7, for anyone under 19: call 0800 1111.
How do I get Steady Plus?
Buy it once, and you get a licence key. In Steady, go to Settings, then Licence, and paste it in. The key is checked on your device, and nothing is sent anywhere.
If your support service has given you a key, enter it the same way.
Which phones and computers does it work on?
Android phones and Windows computers. iPhone is coming later.
For organisations
Do we need to set anything up?
No. There's nothing to install, no accounts and no staff logins. We send you a licence key. Share it with your clients, for example by email or text, and hand out our client cards.
Clients download Steady, go to Settings, then Licence, and paste the key in. Your service's name and phone number then show in Support.
Do we need a data processing agreement?
Not for the app itself. Steady doesn't send client data to us or to you, so we don't process any client data on your behalf.
Your data protection lead can read our privacy policy and make their own check, as they would for any app you suggest to clients.
How many clients does a licence cover?
The number of people you choose when you buy it, based on how many you support in a year, in one district (a local council area). It doesn't matter how many sites or houses you have there. An organisation that works in several districts needs a licence for each.
Steady never counts anyone, so we go by the number you give us. If you grow, move up a size when you renew.
What happens when our licence ends?
Clients who have entered your key keep everything. New clients can enter it until the date on your licence.
Can staff see how a client is doing?
Only if the client chooses to show them, on their own device. Nothing is reported back to you.
Can we try it first?
Yes. Early organisations can have a free 3-month pilot. Email SteadyRecoveryApp@gmail.com.
How do we pay?
By invoice, once a year. We accept purchase orders.
Need help now?
You don't have to do this on your own. These services are free, and they're there for you.
Call 999 if you or someone else is in danger, can't be woken, or has taken too much.
In the United Kingdom
- EmergencyIf you or someone else is in danger, or has taken too much999
- SamaritansFree, 24/7, whatever you're going through116 123
- FRANKDrugs advice, 24/7. Or text 821110300 123 6600
Outside the UK? Find A Helpline lists free, confidential helplines in your country.
Please don't email us in a crisis. We can't reply quickly. Call one of the numbers above.