One day at a time.
Zero data about you.

Find meetings, check in with peers, celebrate milestones, and share progress with your sponsor — without ever entering a name, email, or phone number. On this app, you are a code, not a name.

No accounts. No PII. Ever. End-to-end encrypted sharing Your data stays on your phone
No personal info in this app
ABCD-EFGH-JKLM
Name
never asked
Email
never asked
Phone
never asked
Keys
generated & stored on your device
A friend code like this is created on first launch. That's it — that's the whole sign-up.
Anonymity is the foundation

Privacy isn't a setting. It's the architecture.

Anonymity is a tradition of every 12-step program — so we built the app the same way. There is nothing to leak, because nothing identifying is ever collected.

No names, ever

Your identity is a randomly generated friend code backed by cryptographic keys created on your device.

Local-first data

Attendance, milestones, and notes live in a private database on your phone — not on our servers.

Encrypted sharing

Reports to your sponsor are signed and end-to-end encrypted. Our relay can't read them — by design.

You hold the backup

Export an encrypted backup protected by your passphrase. Store it anywhere — it's useless without you.

Five features. One purpose.

Everything your recovery routine needs

Built around the daily rhythms of the program: find a meeting, show up, log it, celebrate progress, and stay accountable to your people.

FEATURE 01

Find a meeting, anywhere

Search every supported fellowship — AA, NA, CA and more — by zip code and radius, from one screen. Your zip code is converted to coordinates on your device, so it never leaves your phone.

  • All fellowships, one search. Thousands of meetings normalized into a single clean directory.
  • Offline-first. Results are cached locally, because meetings happen in church basements with no signal.
  • List or map view with times, group names, and locations at a glance.
Find a Meeting
Zip code
1234510 mi radius
Fellowships
AANACAOA
Serenity GroupAA · Community Center, 123 Oak St
7:00 PM
New DawnNA · St. Mary's Hall, 9 Elm Ave
8:30 PM
⬇ offline cache up to date
FEATURE 02

Check in, your way

Log every meeting in your private daily journal. Tap to log on your honor, or scan a peer's rotating QR code at the meeting for a verified, vouched-for check-in.

  • Honor tap. One tap says "I was there," with an optional private note.
  • Peer-verified scan. A rotating QR proves two phones were really in the same room — peers vouching for peers.
  • Today only. No back-dating, so an honest log stays honest. And we never store your coordinates — just a simple confirmed/unconfirmed flag.
Daily Log
Honor tap check-inQuick log for today's meeting
Scan peer QR codeVouch for presence
Today's meetings
Serenity Group Honor tap
New Dawn Peer verified ✓
Note: felt good to share today…
📍 Location confirmed○ Unconfirmed
FEATURE 03

Celebrate every single day

Your clean date and attendance log power a milestone engine that runs entirely on your phone. Daily encouragement through the hardest first two weeks, then chips all the way to years.

  • Days 1–14, every day counts. A daily congratulation through the highest-risk early window.
  • Classic chips. 30 / 60 / 90 days, 6 and 9 months, 1 year, and every year after.
  • 90 in 90, streaks, totals, and home-group consistency — with local notifications when a milestone is due.
Milestones & Rewards
Sobriety time
2 YRS 3 MOS 15 DAYS
Clean date: Jan 1, 2024
Early recovery
1 day7 days14 days
Major milestones
30d60d90d6m1yr2yr…
90 meetings in 90 days
70 of 90Streak: 12 🔥
FEATURE 04

Sponsor & peer accountability

Connect with your sponsor or trusted peers through a mutual-consent QR handshake. Share signed, encrypted attendance reports they can trust came from you, untouched.

  • Mutual handshake. Both people scan and approve — no one can add you without your consent.
  • Signed & sealed. Reports are signed with your key and encrypted to theirs. The relay only ever sees ciphertext.
  • Codes, not contacts. Peers appear as friend codes with a tiny local nickname — deliberately too short to hold a real name.
Sharing & Handshake
Your random friend code
ABCD-EFGH-JKLM
Connected peers
PQRS-TUVW-XYZ1+BS
WXYZ-ABCD-EFG2+SP
Share weekly reportSigned & encrypted
FEATURE 05

Acu-Detox clinic finder

Many people in recovery pair meetings with NADA acu-detox — the five-needle ear protocol used in addiction treatment settings — or with affordable community acupuncture. Find both, right inside the app.

  • NADA & community clinics searchable by zip code and radius, like meetings.
  • Session-only results. Clinic searches are never written to your device's database — displayed, then discarded.
  • Suggest a clinic to help fill in coverage for your community.
Acu-Detox Finder
NADA / Community acupuncture
Zip 1234510 mi
Harmony WellnessNADA protocol · 456 Maple St
1.2 mi
Open Door AcupunctureCommunity clinic · 88 Pine Ave
3.8 mi
Riverside Recovery AcuNADA protocol · 12 River Rd
6.5 mi
Local session only · nothing stored
How peer verification works

People vouching for people

No GPS tracking, no surveillance. Just two phones in the same room, the way recovery has always worked: one person showing up for another.

STEP 1 — HOST

One attendee hosts

At the meeting, any attendee opens host mode. Their phone displays a QR code that refreshes every 20–30 seconds with a freshly signed timestamp.

STEP 2 — SCAN

Others scan to check in

Attendees scan the live code from the host's screen. Because it rotates and expires fast, a screenshot or forwarded photo won't work — you have to actually be there.

STEP 3 — VOUCHED

Check-in is verified

Your log records a verified check-in attested by a peer. Scanning creates no friendship or sharing link — the host is simply a witness, nothing more.

Peer-scan is honest-by-design peer attestation for sponsor and self accountability — a community vouching for itself, not courtroom evidence. The honor tap is always there as the everyday fallback.

Chips worth keeping

Coming soon to iOS & Android

Your recovery. Your data.
Your phone.

Steps to Recovery with Acu is in active development. Want early access, or want to bring peer check-in to your home group? We'd love to hear from you.

Or write to us any time at info@stepswithacu.com