How it works
Recovery Journal fits around a twelve-step day — a few quiet minutes in the morning and evening, with the deeper work there when you're ready for it. Everything you write is encrypted on your device before it's saved.
The daily loop
Morning — begin with the reading
Each day opens with the daily reflection — the same reading your group might open with. Sit with it for a moment, note how you're feeling, and set an intention for the day.
During the day — gratitude
When something good happens, give it a line. Gratitude entries are quick, categorised, and add up to a record of the good days you can return to on the hard ones.
Night — a gentle review
Guided prompts help you close the day: what went well, what was hard, where you were resentful or afraid, and what you'll carry into tomorrow. No grades, no judgement.
Step work
The steps ask hard questions. The journal gives the answers a private place to live.
Step Four — inventory
Digital inventory worksheets for resentments, fears and harms. Step Four entries can use their own separate encryption key, so your most sensitive work has its own lock — and can be destroyed on its own, without touching the rest of your journal.
Step Six — character work
Choose the character defects you're working on and draw a daily focus, like a name from a hat — weighted towards the ones you've marked as priorities. Evening reflections help you notice how the day's focus showed up.
Steps Eight and Nine — amends
A private amends list that tracks where you are with each name — not yet, ready, made — at your pace. No reminders, no nudges.
For the hard days
Bad Day Mode
Some days the best you can do is open the app — and that counts. Bad Day Mode reduces the journal to the essentials, so showing up never feels like another task you're failing at.
Safety plan
A crisis plan in the Stanley-Brown format — your warning signs, your coping steps, your people — always one tap away, stored encrypted like everything else.
Craving log
When an urge hits, give it somewhere to go. Quick logging of what's happening and what helped, so you can spot your own patterns.
Sponsor review — over a coffee, not a feed
Sponsor review collects a date range of your reflections into one view, made for sitting beside your sponsor and sharing your screen — shoulder to shoulder, the way it's done in the rooms. Nothing is sent anywhere; your data never leaves your control.