The best quit smoking apps, compared honestly

Organized by what you actually want, not ranked by whoever paid for the placement. There isn't one, because nobody paid for anything here.

Written by Lee H. Last reviewed 5 August 2026.

Here is the conflict of interest, stated plainly instead of buried: I am building The Long View, a quit smoking app of my own, and this whole website exists to support it. That is exactly the kind of thing that makes a "best apps" roundup worthless, because the obvious move is to rank your own product first and call the rest also-rans. I am not doing that. The Long View does not ship yet, so it is not ranked anywhere on this page. It gets its own short section near the end, clearly marked as not available. Everything above that section is seven other people's apps, described as accurately as I can manage, including where they beat anything I could build.

There also isn't a single "best" quit smoking app, because people want different things from one. Someone who wants a running tally of exact statistics wants a different app from someone who needs other people cheering them on, and both are reasonable things to want. So instead of a numbered list, this is organized by what you're after. Pick the section that matches you.

If you want detailed statistics: Smoke Free

Smoke Free tracks time smoke-free down to the second, alongside money saved and a set of health-improvement indicators, and lets you log cravings with a severity rating and a diary entry, which is more granular than most of the field. Free users get all of that. The paid tier adds a coaching chatbot, moderated chatrooms with expert-led sessions, craving pattern analysis, daily missions and a larger set of achievement badges. If what you want out of a quit app is a lot of numbers to look at, this is the one that gives you the most of them.

If you want gamified motivation: Kwit

Kwit builds the quit journey around levels, unlockable content and achievements rather than a plain dashboard, alongside cognitive behavioral therapy techniques for handling cravings, breathing exercises and short distraction games. Kwit's own marketing describes it as validated by the World Health Organization; that is the company's claim about itself, not something I was able to independently confirm from a WHO source, so treat it as marketing until you've checked it yourself. The gamification and the CBT content are real and verifiable from the app's own listing. If a plain streak counter doesn't hold your attention but a game with levels might, this is built for that.

If you want a peer community: QuitNow!

Alongside the standard tracking of time, cigarettes not smoked and money saved, QuitNow! is built around a social layer: profiles, direct chat with other people quitting, and shared milestones, available in a large number of languages. If the thing that would actually keep you quit is other people who are going through the same week you are, this is the app on this list built specifically for that, and it is not something the apps above offer.

If you want to cut down gradually: Flamy and EasyQuit

Flamy offers a "Tapering Off" program as an alternative to quitting on a set date, plus craving tracking with trigger notes, distraction games and, on the paid tier, support for nicotine replacement products and more detailed analytics.

EasyQuit's equivalent is a "Slow Mode" that builds a personalized step-down plan instead of a hard stop, plus a large set of unlockable badges and configurable reminders. If cold turkey isn't the plan, both apps are built around gradual reduction rather than treating it as an afterthought. Flamy asks for an account to do it; EasyQuit does not.

If you want privacy and no account at all: Smoke Tracker

Smoke Tracker's free tier covers daily check-ins, a health-improvement timeline and money saved, all stored on the device rather than a server. EasyQuit, above, fits this same brief: no login there either, and its data also stays local. If your bar is "does not ask for an account," either one clears it, and neither is the app I build for a living.

Check the developer, not just the name. The iOS app here is the one published by Ivan Terekhin. There are Android apps called Smoke Tracker from unrelated developers, and an app sharing a name tells you nothing about who built it, what it collects or whether it behaves the same way. That applies well beyond this one name, so it is worth the ten seconds on any store listing before you install.

If you want it free and government backed: quitSTART

quitSTART gives tailored tips based on your smoking history, badges for milestones, mood and craving tracking, distraction games, and a "Quit Kit" of tips you build yourself. None of it is behind a paywall, because there isn't one: no subscription, no upgrade prompt, nothing to buy. For a lot of readers, "free and backed by a government health agency, not a company selling something" is a completely reasonable answer on its own, and it shouldn't get buried under seven paid alternatives just because it doesn't have a marketing budget.

Where The Long View fits into this, and where it doesn't

The Long View is not on the list above because it is not available yet, on any platform. It would be dishonest to rank an app you cannot download against seven you can, so I'm not doing that, and I'm not pretending it isn't relevant either: it's the reason this page exists, so here is what it is actually for. Where the apps above mostly track streaks, money and badges, The Long View is built around a single estimate, expressed in years of life expectancy rather than days or dollars: what smoking has likely cost you, and how much of that comes back the longer you stay quit, next to a photo of your own reason for quitting. The quit smoking calculator on this site runs the same arithmetic today, in the browser, without needing the app at all. Platform plans and current status are on the download page; none of it is installable yet.

How to actually pick one

If you want the most numbers, use Smoke Free. If a game with levels will keep you showing up, use Kwit, with the caveat above about its own WHO claim. If you want other people in it with you, use QuitNow!. If cutting down gradually fits you better than a hard stop, use Flamy or EasyQuit. If you don't want to hand over an email address to anyone, use EasyQuit or Smoke Tracker. And if free, no account and a government health agency behind it is what you want, quitSTART is a genuinely good answer, not a consolation prize. Any of these beats not having one.

None of the apps described here, and nothing on this site, diagnoses, treats or prevents any condition, and none of it is medical advice. Talk to a doctor or a quitline about stopping smoking. In the US, that is 1-800-QUIT-NOW.

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