On a PC
Quit smoking apps for Windows
The honest answer is that there are almost none, and the search results are mostly something else.
Written by Lee H. Last reviewed 14 September 2026.
The short answer
The well known quit smoking apps are phone apps. Smoke Free, Kwit, QuitNow!, Flamy, EasyQuit and quitSTART are published for iPhone and Android. None of them is a Windows program, and searching for one mostly returns other things wearing the name.
I build a competing app that does have a Windows version, so read that sentence knowing exactly who wrote it. The useful part of this page is the three things Windows results usually turn out to be, and what you can genuinely use on a PC today.
What Windows search results usually are
Three categories, and they are worth being able to tell apart before you install anything.
- An Android app in a compatibility layer. Some listings are the phone app running through an Android runtime or an emulator. It works, in the sense that it opens. What you get is a phone interface stretched across a monitor, usually without notifications behaving the way they do on Windows, and often several versions behind the phone release.
- A web page wrapped as an app. A shortcut to a website, packaged so it appears in a store and gets an icon. There is nothing wrong with this, but you should know that is what you are installing, because it means the thing is the website, and you could have used the website.
- Unrelated software with a matching name. Store search matches exact words. "Quit smoking" returns hypnosis audio, wallpaper packs, calculators of other kinds and a certain amount of filler. Check the publisher name on any listing before it goes anywhere near your machine.
None of these is a scandal. Knowing which one you are looking at takes a few seconds on the listing.
Why the category is phone only
It follows from where the moment happens.
A craving happens outside a building, in a car, at the end of a meal, and it is logged there or it is not logged honestly at all. Everything that makes these apps work, the widget, the watch face, the notification, the two second check-in, is an answer to that one constraint. A desktop build answers none of it, so the effort went to phones and stayed there.
Which means the sensible question is "what do I actually want to do on a PC?" Those are usually different things: reading, working out the numbers, deciding whether quitting is worth it, comparing the money. Those are all things a large screen is genuinely better at, and none of them needs a resident application.
What works on Windows today
A browser, and it does the job well. The three calculators on this site run entirely on your machine, in any modern browser, on Windows, Mac or Linux:
- The quit smoking calculator, for the years smoking has likely cost and the years quitting returns.
- The life expectancy calculator, for how the forecast moves at one, five and ten years out, and where it stops rising.
- The cost of smoking calculator, for money and time side by side, per cigarette, per pack and per year.
They need no account and no install, and nothing you type leaves the page. A figure from the browser is exactly the app's figure. The methodology page shows every source behind them.
If what you wanted from a Windows app was the numbers on a proper screen, that is already done and it is free.
Where The Long View fits, stated as disclosure
Mine, so read it as disclosure. The Long View has a real Windows desktop application, built for Windows, and it shows exactly the same number as the phone.
The Windows app is free to download and free to use, the same as the phone app, and it comes straight from the download page or the Microsoft Store. The estimate, the daily check-in, one photo, the recovery curve, your history and your smoke-free day count are all there without paying. Premium adds money saved, the Watch apps, export, the quit plan and sync between platforms; the premium page has the full split.
If you are on a PC right now and want the number without installing anything, use the calculators above. They are the same math and they cost nothing.
What the Windows app does
- The download from this site updates itself: when a new version is ready, the app asks at launch. The Microsoft Store version updates through the Store.
- It works with a screen reader. Each release is tested with NVDA on Windows before it ships.
- With Premium, your check-ins sync with an iPhone, iPad, Mac or Android phone, encrypted on your device before they leave it.
Common questions
Is there a Smoke Free or Kwit app for Windows?
No. Both are published for iPhone and Android only. Anything on a Windows store carrying those names is worth checking against the publisher name on the original phone listing before installing.
Can I use a quit smoking app on Windows through an emulator?
Usually yes, and it is a reasonable workaround if a specific app is the one you want. Expect a phone layout on a large screen, notifications that behave differently, and a version that may lag the phone release. It is a compromise.
Do the calculators on this site work on Windows?
Yes, in any modern browser, with nothing to install and no account. They run on your own machine and send nothing to a server, which is also why they work with no connection once the page has loaded.
Is a desktop app better than a phone app for quitting?
For the daily check-in, a phone wins, because the moment you are recording happens away from a desk. For reading, comparing and working out whether the numbers mean anything to you, a large screen is better. Most people want both, at different times.
Nothing on this page diagnoses, treats or prevents any condition, and none of it is medical advice. App availability changes and store listings differ by region, so check the current listing yourself. Talk to a doctor or a quitline about stopping smoking. In the US, that is 1-800-QUIT-NOW.
A craving is logged where it happens or it is not logged honestly at all. That is why this category lives on phones.
Keep reading
Where to go next
Cost of smoking calculator
Money and time side by side, per cigarette, per pack, per year.
Apple Watch apps
Fewer have one than the results suggest, and how to check the listing.
How the estimate works
The model, where every figure comes from, and what it cannot tell you.