Garden+
Keepsakes appear round your plant as it grows, and stay: a smooth stone at a week, a bench at a month, a robin, a pond, and a lighthouse on the far hill at a year. Give your plant a name, and save a poster of it.
For adults recovering from addiction
A private place for your recovery
Cut down or stop drinking, drugs or other habits. No sign-up, and nothing leaves your device. Realistic, not perfect.
Free to start. For adults aged 18 and over. Testers get a link by email when testing starts.
Coming soon
- Android phonesGoogle Play
- Windows computersMicrosoft Store
- iPhone, laterApp Store
Run a service? See Steady for organisations
What Steady stands for
Realistic, not perfect
A slip is information, not a verdict. There's never a "streak broken" screen.
Progress you keep
Your total of clean days only goes up, and milestones stay once you reach them.
Help, one tap away
Your emergency number and helplines on every screen, even the lock screen.
Private by default
No account, no adverts and no tracking. Your records stay on your device.
How it works
One calm place, for the hard days and the good ones
Here's how Steady fits round an ordinary day. Use as much or as little of it as you like.
- 7:30am Morning
Start the day gently
Your morning routine sits under a small sky drawn at its own time of day, and the sky moves on as you tick. Do what helps, skip what doesn't fit today. Every tick counts.
- 1:10pm An urge
When an urge hits
Urges rise and fall like a wave. Steady walks you through one, step by step: breathe first, then pick what helps. Play the tape forward, read your reasons, talk back to the urge, change what you're doing or call someone. A 10-minute timer keeps counting while you get on with something else.
- 1:25pm After
Then, a calm sea
When you've ridden one out, Steady shows a calm sea, a lighthouse, and how many urges you've ridden out so far. Each one is proof that you can.
- 9:30pm Evening
Notice what went well
A ten-second check-in keeps your numbers right and waters your plant. Write three good things, with ideas to tap when a blank box is hard to start. Good things keeps them all, to read back on a harder day.
- 11:40pm A hard night
Your plan, and help, one tap away
Support is on every screen, even the lock screen, with your emergency number and helplines for your country. Inside it is My plan for hard moments, written on a calmer day: the signs to look out for, what helps, where you can go and who to call.
Features
For the everyday part of recovery
A quiet place to keep track, plan your day and get through the hard moments. All of this is free.
Clean days that only go up
Every day you don't use is counted, and kept. Your total only goes up, and milestones stay once you reach them. Call your days clean, sober, substance-free or your own word. Watch your plant grow
An urge toolkit
An urge rises, peaks and passes, like a wave. When one comes, Steady walks you through it, one step at a time, with seven ways to ride it out. Afterwards, note how it went, and learn what helps you most.
- Breathe with the circle
- Play the tape forward
- Read your own reasons
- Talk back to the urge
- Change what you're doing
- A 10-minute timer
- Call someone you trust
Try it now: breathe with the circle, in for 4 and out for 6.
My plan for hard moments
Write it on a calmer day, so it's ready when you need it: the signs to look out for, what helps you through, places you can go and how to make things safer. It's kept in Support, never on the lock screen, and ends with a helpline you can call any time.
Ten-second check-ins
Each evening: did you use today? It keeps your numbers right, and waters your plant. Log urges too, and look back at what helped.
Good things
Each evening, three good things and one win, in your own words. Good things keeps them all, to read back on a harder day, and some mornings one comes back to you on Today.
Ideas to tap
A blank box can be hard to start. Under many of the boxes you write in, a few ideas wait: tap one, and its words go in for you to keep or change.
Three good things
- A cup of tea
Try it here. Nothing on this page is saved.
Support, one tap away
Your emergency number, helplines for your country and the people you trust, on every screen. Even on the lock screen. There's support for the people around you too, under For family and friends.
Appointments
Your key worker, doctor or group, all in one place. Reminders only say "Appointment", so nothing private shows on your lock screen.
Routines with a living sky
Small actions you repeat each morning and evening, under a sky drawn at the routine's own time. It moves on as you tick, and skipping one is fine.
Your words, your way
Say clean, sober, substance-free, or just days. Choose your word for a Higher Power. Large text, a PIN, dark mode, and backups when you choose.
The Twelve Steps, in plain words
Work through the Steps one at a time, with today's actions and space for your own notes. Say God, Higher Power, or a word of your own.
Tools for when it's hard
Write your plan and your reasons, weigh up the pros and cons, and learn to talk back to the urge. Built on cognitive behavioural and motivational ideas.
Plain safety information
If stopping something suddenly can be dangerous, Steady says so, and suggests you talk to a doctor first. After a break, it says plainly that tolerance drops fast.
Your plant
Watch one day at a time grow
Scroll slowly, and picture it as your own. Every day you don't use, your plant grows a little more.
- Day one
A seed
It starts the day you decide. Nothing to prove yet: just a seed, and a choice you can make again tomorrow.
- One week
A sprout
Seven days. Notice how the mornings feel. Your plant is noticing too.
- One month
Its first bud
Thirty days of choosing it. Hard days counted too, because you got through them.
- Three months
A lantern flower
The first lantern opens, and glows at night. By now you know you can do this.
- Six months
A young tree
Imagine opening your phone and seeing this. Every lantern is a day you chose.
- One year
A strong tree, hung with lanterns
And it never shrinks. A slip won't undo it: it keeps everything it's grown, and so do you.
Privacy
Your recovery stays yours
Steady is private by default. It isn't a setting you have to find. It's how the app is built.
- 0accountsNo sign-up, email address or password.
- 0advertsAnd nothing about you for advertisers.
- 0trackersNo analytics in the app, or on this website.
- 0records sent to usWhat you write stays on your phone or computer.
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, and it's gone. We hold nothing, so there's nothing for us to delete.
A PIN locks the app and encrypts your records on your device. Without a PIN they aren't encrypted, so keep your phone or computer locked too. This website has no cookies, analytics or tracking either. Read the privacy policy.
Steady Plus and prices
Free to start. Pay once for more.
Tracking, milestones, the urge toolkit, routines, Support and the safety information are free, and stay free. Steady Plus adds a few extras for a one-off payment.
What Steady Plus adds
Letters+
Write to the person you're becoming, and seal it until the day you choose. When it opens, Steady shows how far you've come since you wrote it. Reading letters you've already written is always free.
Year+
Your year in numbers worth keeping: days without using, urges ridden out, check-ins and your best month. Save it as a picture that never says what you stopped.
Themes+
Six colour themes, each shown as a little picture of Today before you pick it, and your plant's lantern colour, to make the app feel like yours.
- Insights+ Charts of your mood and cravings, your best and hardest days, when urges hit, and the triggers you handle best.
- Heads-up+ A gentle note on Today before your usual hardest time, such as Friday evenings, with what's helped you before.
- Progress+ A summary to print or share, with highlights, a calendar of your days and your own words.
- Savings+ The money you haven't spent since you started, a jar that fills with it, and a goal to save towards.
- Celebrate+ Milestone cards to keep or share, which never say what you stopped unless you want them to.
- Medallions+ A medallion for every milestone, from bronze at a week to a starry night at two years, in your own cabinet, to save as a picture.
- Security+ Backups locked with a password, so only you can open them. Opening one is always free.
Choose how you start
Steady
Free
Everything you need day to day.
- Clean days, milestones and patterns
- The urge toolkit, with seven ways to ride out an urge
- 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, with no subscription. Everything in Steady, plus:
- Insights+
- Heads-up+
- Progress+
- Savings+
- Celebrate+
- Medallions+
- Garden+
- Letters+
- Year+
- Security+
- Themes+
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, one for someone who can't afford it.
Buying opens soon. On Android phones, everything in Steady Plus is included for now.
- For youYour own licence£19.99
- For you and one moreYours, and one for someone who can't afford it£39.98
Can't afford it? Email hello@lightkeeperstudio.co.uk, and we'll send you a licence for free, paid for by someone else. You don't need to explain why.
Want to give more than one? Email us too. Every licence includes all future updates.
Buying for a service, charity or treatment centre? See prices for organisations.
For family and friends
If someone you love is in recovery
Steady is for the person in recovery, and it's private to them. There's still plenty here for you.
It belongs to them
Their records stay on their own device, and Steady doesn't share them with anyone, including you. That's on purpose.
There's support for you too
Services for people affected by someone else's drinking or drug use are in Steady's Support, and on our Help page. If you're worried about someone's drug use, you can call FRANK 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 hello@lightkeeperstudio.co.uk, and we'll send you a licence key to pass on.
Coming soon from Lightkeeper Studio: Kinlight, an app for adults affected by someone else's drinking, drug use or gambling.
For services
Run a drug and alcohol service?
Give your clients Steady Plus, with your service's own name and number in Support, next to the helplines.
- Nothing to set up. No accounts, staff logins or systems on your side.
- No client data, for anyone. Everything stays on the client's own device.
- A free 3-month pilot for early organisations.
Questions
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.
What is My plan for hard moments?
A short plan you write on a calmer day, kept in Support: the signs to look out for, what helps you through, places you can go and how to make things safer. Your people and a helpline you can call any time come at the end. It's free, it stays on your device, and it never shows on the lock screen.
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.
About Steady
What can I track?
Alcohol and other drugs, picked from a list or named in your own words, and anything else you want to step back from, such as gambling. Track more than one if you like, each with its own start date.
Steady's safety information is about alcohol and drugs.
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.
Is there anything for my family?
Yes. In Support, For family and friends lists services for people affected by someone else's drinking or drug use. They're on our Help page too. Steady itself stays private to the person using it.
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.
Is there a version for services?
Yes. Drug and alcohol services, treatment centres and recovery charities can give clients Steady Plus, with the service's own number in Support. See Steady for organisations.
Also coming soon
More from Lightkeeper Studio
Steady is made by Lightkeeper Studio, a small studio in the UK. One more app is out now, and two are on the way.
Need help now?
You don't have to do this on your own. These services are free, and they're there for you.
In danger right now?
Call 999 if you or someone else is in danger, can't be woken, or has taken too much.
Outside the UK? See helplines in other countries, or Find A Helpline.
More help and resources: meetings, local services, and support for family and friends.
Please don't email us in a crisis. We can't reply quickly. Call one of these numbers.
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
- Know the ScoreDrugs and alcohol in Scotland. Free0800 587 5879
- DAN 24/7Drugs and alcohol helpline for Wales. Free, 24/70808 808 2234
- LifelineNorthern Ireland: free, 24/7, for anyone struggling or in crisis0808 808 8000
