The Recovery Companion
The whole day, in your pocket.
A guided 120-day practice, education written for the people who served, a toolkit for the hours the schedule does not cover, and crisis help one tap from every screen.
Built and in testing on iOS and Android. Not in the app stores yet. Early access opens first to veterans, active duty, National Guard and Reserve, and first responders.
Recovery, one steady day at a time
You pick the hours. The app reminds you, walks you through each step in order, and marks the day complete when the work is done.
Your daily start
A reminder at each time you choose. Tap it and the app opens exactly where you left off.
Start the day honest
How you slept, how you feel, where cravings sit. Then the day's recovery thought and the intention you carry into it.
Learn and give back
The day's reflection and reading, then a lesson from the program with written questions only you can answer.
Close the day
Write what the day held, type it or dictate it, then end with a short evening reading and mark the day complete.
For the moment the schedule does not cover. A craving wave, a payday, an argument, three in the morning, the drive home past an old spot. Eighteen written responses for the exact situation, plus a way to say “not tonight” when a drink is put in front of you.
Crisis help, one tap
Call or text 988, then press 1 for the Veterans Crisis Line, straight from the app.
Find a meeting
AA and NA meetings near you or online, and a digital card the chairperson signs on your phone.
Your progress, counted
Days sober, current streak, lessons finished, and reflections written, all tracked as you go.
What is in it
Everything below was written for this app
No licensed workbooks, no repackaged curriculum. Healing Nations Foundation authored the readings, the lessons, and the crisis scripts.
A guided daily practice
A day-by-day program arranged in themed blocks, built as a secular parallel to the twelve steps. Each day gives you a morning intention and a written evening reflection.
Education that explains it
Alcohol and the body, the brain's reward system, anger and authority, grief, relationships, money, and readiness for change. Each lesson ends with written questions you answer yourself.
A meditation for every day
A daily thought and meditation for all 365 days, so the practice keeps its rhythm long after day 120. Reading them is paced, not a button you can tap past.
The crisis toolkit
A craving wave, three in the morning, payday, after an argument, after court, a using dream, the “just one” thought. Open it and there is a written response for the moment you are actually in.
A journal that is yours
Type it or dictate it. In the supervised tier a monitor sees that you journaled, not what you wrote, unless you specifically consent to more.
Meetings and a digital card
Find meetings near you or online, then have the chairperson sign for your attendance right on your phone instead of a paper card. Marked as self-reported, because that is what it is.
Milestones and streaks
Days sober, your current run, and every milestone from the first 24 hours through a year, marked when you reach them. One authorized make-up day per month, because recovery asks for consistency, not perfection.
Someone to talk to
A companion you can write to when it is late and nobody is up, plus guided meditations for when the noise will not settle. Not a therapist, and it says so.
Crisis help, always
988 and the Veterans Crisis Line, the SAMHSA helpline, and treatment search are reachable from any screen, without hunting through a menu.
Not tonight
Someone puts a drink in your hand and your mind goes blank. Open it and a line is already there, funny, firm, honest, or a way to change the subject. Tap until one sounds like you. No signal needed, and nobody has to watch you scroll.
Try it further down this page ↓Peer support
Finish 120 unbroken days and you become a 12.
A 12 has done the whole program, day after day, without missing. The name comes from the twelfth step, carrying the message to the person still in it.
Becoming a 12 unlocks the peer surface in the app: a profile, the ability to encourage participants still working the program, and a place in an opt-in directory where someone earlier on the road can reach out to you.
Once earned, it is permanent. A hard day later does not take it back.
Peer connection is built and deliberately switched off until the community server is live and the contact model has passed legal review. Nothing about you is shared until then.
Coming with launchWhat we will not claim
Recovery is too serious a subject to oversell. Here is where the honest edges of this app are.
It is not treatment
The Recovery Companion is a wellness and peer-support tool. It does not diagnose, it does not treat, and it is not a substitute for a clinician, a program, or a crisis line.
Attendance is self-reported
The digital meeting card is signed on your own phone. It is honest parity with a paper card, not proof, and every report says so in plain language.
No outcome promises
We have no efficacy data yet. An independent evaluation is part of our pilot plan, and we will publish what it finds, including anything unflattering.
Your record is yours
Completion data is only shared with a supervising officer when you are enrolled in a court program that requires it, and journal contents stay private by default even then.
Be one of the first to use it.
Early access opens to veterans, active duty, National Guard and Reserve, and first responders first. Tell us who you are and we will reach out when your build is ready.
Status, plainly: the app is built and in testing on iOS and Android. It is not in the app stores yet. If you are a court, county program, tribal health organization, or veteran service organization, we would like to talk about a pilot.
From the toolkit
Not tonight
Someone puts a drink in your hand and your mind goes blank. The app keeps a line ready for that moment. Spin for one, or choose the tone you want to strike.
Give the wheel a spin.
Any toneOr choose a tone
27 lines, four tones, all of it offline. The app carries the same list, so it works standing in a kitchen with no signal and nobody watching you scroll.