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Abstain! app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 4528 ratings )
Lifestyle Health & Fitness
Developer: I Am Sober LLC
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.1, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 11 Dec 2013
App size: 11.5 Mb

Abstain! is a companion app for motivational, healthy living. By helping you reach key milestones and providing a daily motivational reminder, this app is your personal challenge partner.

Features:

• Day Log Tracker
Keeps track of how long youve abstained.

• Daily Notifications
Reinforce your self-challenge or full reboot with daily achievement notifications that keep you focused and motivated.

• Track Milestones
Get special notifications when you reach key milestones such as 7 days, 1 month, etc.

• Customize Your Experience
Configure your start date and notification times.

Pros and cons of Abstain! app for iPhone and iPad

Abstain! app good for

Good application! But is it possible to add a widget so that we can see the number of day without opening the app? Thx
This app really helps me to abstain. BUT, I do appreciate having more advices once a day. In fact, trought 2 weeks I had only 2 same sentences: "not focus on the old but build the new," and "most people fail because they trade what they want now"... Too bad...
Daily Reminder only works on Midnight Day counting of abstaining days is not shown in the right time as you have set on the Settings

Some bad moments

The daily motivational quote only comes up and I cant read it again?! Its gone before I have time to see it!!!
Wonderful app, once you reach 1 month thats when you win in my opinion. On an unrelated note Ill be deleting this app at month one when Ill be ready
Giving up anything? Simple and effective, with milestones, inspirational quotes, and reminders.
There are multiple things that Im abstaining from, but I can only track one.
This app is surprisingly useful for 3 reasons. The first is that it promotes "counting" the little slips that actually should count but you might not otherwise count, helping you notice fluctuations in how vulnerable you are to slipping. It does this by being super simple, with a single button to self-report immediately by resetting the counter to "today (todays date goes here) is my first day abstaining". This also makes you feel like you really have to try to stop the slipping at that very moment because that is at odds with now today being your first day! The second reason this app is effective is that it proudly shows you what you have accomplished on a pretty, completely stationary main page with a single number on it for how many days. The third reason is that the milestones for certain number of days abstaining feel like real accomplishments that you put a lot into, and that you wont want to slip away with that really quick reset button. And the milestones start small and obtainable as they should be at first, and then ramp up once youve regained your steady footing. A fourth way in which this app can be helpful is that it helps you realize when youre most vulnerable that actually it hasnt really been that many days since the last time you slipped. You may think its been a week doing away with that thing, and like its okay to let down your alertness a little, when really its only been two days! Or you may later think so much time has passed, but really only 7 days are added to the 1 month several days abstaining. So I guess this helps to feel that the effort is really not something you want the app to erase from you! When you have a month and several days, thats really a Lot of time, versus those slips when you were just regaining your balance at say 2 days. Finally, dont think this app is just for hard core abstainers! We all have our own goals for different but important reasons, and who knows, you might surprise yourself through your own observations that this app encourages at the critical moments when you most need them.
It says it notifies you but maybe it needs to be updated. I have the 6s and the app is silent. Only when I open it I can see whats going on but it never notifies me or sends me inspiration. App has potential but it needs to be fixed. I bought it thinking it had all these features but it hasnt delivered at all.