Dry Days Alternative: SoberBear vs Dry Days by AlcoChange

What Dry Days does

Dry Days by AlcoChange lets you pick your goal first — quit, cut down, or take a break — and then tracks your drinking against it. It shows progress charts, money saved, and lets you log sleep and mood alongside your drinks so you can see what sets a heavy night off. Its listing says the platform was developed with an addiction specialist, and it connects you to others doing the same thing.

It is free, and unlike almost everything else in this category the App Store page shows no in-app purchases at all. Nothing to unlock, nothing to subscribe to.

Two facts you should have before installing. It holds 3.9 stars from about 741 UK ratings — the lowest of the apps we have compared. And its version history stops at 4.0.9, dated 12 August 2025: a year before this page was checked, with no release since.

That does not make it a bad app. Software that is finished can sit still. It does mean nobody is fixing it if iOS changes underneath it, and it is worth knowing before you build a habit on top of it.

Where SoberBear is different

It is maintained. That is the plainest difference and it needs no argument.

Seventeen languages against one. Dry Days is English only. If English is not the language you think in at the end of a hard day, that matters more than any feature list.

It measures the return, not the consumption. Dry Days charts what you drank and what you saved. SoberBear counts the days you drank nothing and converts them into hours of life expectancy, money against a goal you set, and a body timeline for what is changing at the point you have reached.

A private daily photo. The check-in ends with a sober selfie kept on your device. Dry Days logs sleep and mood instead — a different, and in some ways more clinical, kind of record.

Where Dry Days is better

Free, with nothing to buy. No trial that ends, no tier you hit a wall at. SoberBear cannot match that and does not pretend to.

Moderation is a first-class goal. You can aim at cutting down rather than stopping, and the app is built for it. SoberBear only counts alcohol-free days, so it has nothing useful to say to someone drinking less rather than none.

Sleep and mood logging. Tracking those next to your drinking is a genuinely good way to find patterns. SoberBear asks how your day went; it does not build that dataset.

It was built with clinical input. Its listing says so plainly, and that is a reasonable thing to weigh.

Which one

If you want free with no strings and you are cutting down rather than stopping, Dry Days is a fair choice — with your eyes open about the release date and the English-only listing.

Take SoberBear if you have stopped, if you want the days counted back to you as hours and money, or if you want an app that will still be here after the next iOS release.

What neither app is

Neither is treatment. If you drink heavily every day, stopping suddenly can cause seizures and, rarely, a life-threatening delirium tremens. Speak to a doctor before you stop — you may need medication to do it safely.