Alternatives
Smoke Free app alternatives, compared honestly
What it is genuinely good at, and which app to reach for when it is not the thing you needed.
Written by Lee H. Last reviewed 13 September 2026.
The disclosure, before anything else
I build a quit smoking app of my own, The Long View, and this website exists to support it. A page titled "alternatives to a competitor" written by a competitor is exactly the kind of page that is usually worthless, because the obvious move is to list four weak options and then arrive at your own product like a solution. I am not doing that.
What follows is what Smoke Free is actually good at, stated without hedging, then the real reasons people go looking for something else, and which of other people's apps answers each one. Mine gets a short section near the end, clearly marked, and it is not presented as the answer to any of those reasons except the one it genuinely addresses. Everything here can be checked on the store listings, and you should check it.
What Smoke Free does well
Smoke Free, published by 23 Ltd and listed on the App Store as "Smoke Free, Quit Smoking Now", is the app for people who want the most numbers. It tracks time smoke-free down to the second, money saved, and a set of health-improvement indicators, and it lets you log a craving with a severity rating and a diary entry. That craving log is more granular than most of the field offers, and all of it sits in the free tier.
It also does not require an account. Linking an email address is optional and exists so your data can move between devices. That is a meaningfully better default than apps that make you sign up before you can count a single day, and it is worth saying out loud on a page about alternatives, because it removes one of the most common reasons for leaving.
The paid Pro tier adds short daily Missions, an AI Quit Coach, more help with cravings, more badges and more customization. Chat with other quitters and a plan built by an expert advisor come with Blitz your Quit, which is sold separately. If a wall of accurate statistics is what keeps you engaged, this is the app in the category that gives you the most of them, and switching away from it because a page on the internet listed alternatives would be a bad reason to switch.
The five real reasons people look for an alternative
Almost every search for an alternative to a specific app comes down to one of these. Find yours, then go to the app that answers it.
- "I want other people in this with me." Smoke Free's community features sit behind the paid tier. If peer support is the thing that would actually keep you quit, QuitNow! is built around it: profiles, direct chat with other people quitting, and shared milestones, in a large number of languages. A profile is required, because that is how other members see you.
- "Numbers are not motivating me." This is the most honest reason to leave, and the least often admitted. A dashboard full of accurate statistics does nothing for some people. Kwit builds the same journey as levels, unlockable content and achievements, alongside cognitive behavioral therapy techniques for handling cravings, breathing exercises and short distraction games.
- "I am not quitting all at once." Flamy has a Tapering Off program and EasyQuit has a Slow Mode that builds a step-down plan, both as the main path. Flamy asks for an account to sync; EasyQuit does not.
- "I have not actually stopped yet." Nearly every app in this category, Smoke Free included, opens by asking when you quit. If the honest answer is "I haven't," you are already outside what the app was built for. It is a real gap and the people it affects notice it: one Smoke Free reviewer spent four paragraphs on it in 2019 and still gave the app four stars, ending with the observation that the area is largely uninhabited by developers. Six years on that is still broadly true. Flamy and EasyQuit both have a taper as their main path, and the calculators on this site work from what you smoke now.
- "I lost my history to a login screen." An app that keeps a count for years is only as durable as the account holding it. One reviewer with a twelve-year quit described reinstalling four times to get back in, because there was no way to sign out and retry a different login. That is a risk worth weighing before you pick an app to count the next decade in: ask what happens to your record when you change phone, and whether you can get back in without remembering which of three sign-in buttons you used. The apps that ask for no account at all cannot lock you out of your own history.
- "I do not want to pay a subscription." quitSTART, published by the US National Cancer Institute with the FDA, has no in-app purchases at all. EasyQuit Pro and the separate QuitNow! PRO app are one-time purchases. There is a whole guide on what is genuinely free versus a locked demo.
If none of those is your reason, the honest answer is that you probably do not need an alternative. Every app on this page is a variation on counting days and totalling savings, and swapping one for another resets your history for no gain.
The reason none of them answer
There is one more, and it is the reason this site exists. Every app above answers the question "how long have I been quit?" Not one of them answers "what has this actually cost me, and how much of it comes back?"
Days smoke-free is a real number and it only ever climbs, which is exactly why it stops meaning much around day forty. The question underneath it, the one people are usually circling, is measured in years of life. You can get that answer right now without installing anything: the quit smoking calculator on this site runs it in your browser, and the methodology page shows every figure it uses and where each one comes from.
Where The Long View fits, stated as disclosure
This one is mine, so treat it as disclosure and not as a recommendation. The Long View is built around a single estimate expressed in years of life expectancy: 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. A daily check-in keeps it current, and the number moves both ways, because a counter that only ever improves is not believable.
It is not a better Smoke Free. It does not have Smoke Free's craving diary, its AI coach or its community chat, and if those are what you use, it is not the app you are looking for. What it has instead is one number the others do not compute at all, and a model you can read in full before deciding whether to believe it. The core is free forever, and premium is built to be finished with: after a year of smoke-free days you cancel and keep everything.
Common questions
Is Smoke Free free?
The app is free to download and its core tracking is free to use. The paid Pro subscription adds daily Missions, an AI Quit Coach, more craving help and more badges; chat with other quitters comes with the separately sold Blitz your Quit. No account is required for the free tier; linking an email is optional and exists for moving your data between devices.
What is the closest alternative to Smoke Free?
It depends which part you are replacing, which is why the section above is organized by reason. Community: QuitNow!. Gamified motivation: Kwit. Gradual reduction: Flamy or EasyQuit. No account: EasyQuit or Smoke Tracker. No paid tier at all: quitSTART.
Will I lose my quit date if I switch apps?
In practice, yes. These apps do not import each other's history, so switching means re-entering your quit date and losing any craving log or diary you built up. That is a real cost and it is worth weighing against whatever the new app offers. It is also the best argument for not switching without a specific reason.
Which of these apps works without an internet connection?
Smoke Tracker states that it runs offline with no account and no cloud sync, and EasyQuit's developer states that it collects no email, password or contacts. Anything that depends on a chatbot, a chatroom or a shared profile needs a connection by definition. The privacy guide covers how to check a claim like this on the store listing.
Nothing on this page diagnoses, treats or prevents any condition, and none of it is medical advice. App features and prices change, and store listings differ by region, so check the current listing before deciding. Talk to a doctor or a quitline about stopping smoking. In the US, that is 1-800-QUIT-NOW.
If none of the four reasons is yours, you probably do not need an alternative. Switching resets your history for no gain.
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