Sober Living Companion is a program of Empower Next Project, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit (EIN 39-3580172). The resident app is free forever, and the $60/month home membership funds rent assistance and free transitional counseling for people in early recovery. Read our mission →
It is one product with two sides: a free app for every resident in your house, and a dashboard for the person running it. Payments, drug tests, beds, passes, curfews, meetings and agreements — on iPhone, Android, and the web.
Looking for the free app for yourself? If you're in recovery and you just want a sober-day counter and a way to find meetings — you don't need a house, and you don't need to read the rest of this page.
Get the free recovery app →This is the whole idea behind Sober Living Companion, so it's worth being direct about it.
When a management system is built for the operator alone, the resident is a row in a table. Somebody has to keep that row current — and that somebody is always staff. Attendance gets entered from a stack of signed cards on Friday. Payments get reconciled from memory and a Cash App history. Chores get marked off from a whiteboard. The data in the system is only ever as fresh as the last time a tired manager sat down to update it.
So we built the other half first. The resident app isn't a portal we bolted on to satisfy a checklist — it's the thing that has to be genuinely worth opening, or none of the rest works.
A resident opens it because their sober-day counter is in there. Because that's where they find a meeting tonight. Because that's where they can see what they actually owe and what they've already paid, without asking. Because their attendance record is theirs: a dated record they can show a PO, a court or a treatment team, and one they keep for themselves. Whether a PO or a court accepts it is up to them, so residents should ask what proof their PO requires.
Those are all things a person in recovery wants for their own reasons. And every one of them writes to the same record the operator sees. The resident checks in to a meeting because they want the credit — and the attendance log fills itself in. They pay their membership fee in the app because it's the easiest way to pay — and the payments dashboard is current the moment they do. They sign the house agreement on their phone at intake — and it's in your documents folder before they've unpacked.
The engagement is the mechanism, not a bonus feature. A resident app people ignore produces a dashboard full of stale data and a manager doing double entry. A resident app people use is what makes the operator's side true. That's the bet this product makes, and it's why we give the resident app away and never charge a person in recovery a cent for it.
Free forever. Theirs whether they stay in your house or move on.
In any browser at app.soberlivingcompanion.com, or on your own phone.
The app your residents download is also the operator's app. Owners and house managers sign in with their staff login and carry the house in their pocket — the parts of running a home that never happen at a desk.
A house manager's login is scoped to their house, so they see their residents and not the whole organization. The jobs that want a keyboard — editing your application questions, outcome exports, the bigger reports — stay on the web dashboard.
Residents get the same app, and for them it is free — no charge, no ads, no card, and no trial that runs out. Sober Living Companion is a program of a 501(c)(3), and a person in recovery is never billed for their own recovery tools. They enter the house's join code once and they're connected.
The sober-day counter and the meeting finder are theirs whether they stay in your house or move on. Same download as the badges above — a resident just enters the join code instead of signing in as staff. If you're in recovery and want the app for yourself, with no house involved, start at the free recovery app page.
Residents live on their phones, so the resident app is a real native app on both stores. Operators mostly want a keyboard and a big screen, so the dashboard is a full web app — nothing to install.
Download, enter your house's join code once, and you're connected. No card, no trial, no ads. The sober-day counter and the meeting finder work whether or not your house uses Sober Living Companion.
Sign in at app.soberlivingcompanion.com in any browser to run your roster, payments, UAs, beds, passes, curfews, attendance, and documents. House managers get their own logins with roles scoped to their house — they can run the home without touching billing. Owners and managers can use the phone app too, which is where most people end up approving a pass at 9pm.
We'd rather tell you this now than have you find out in week two.
Putting a house on an app is not a software problem — it's a house problem. Every resident has to actually install it and open it, and the ones who've been through a few systems will assume this is another thing done to them. That assumption is the only real obstacle, and it doesn't get solved by a feature.
What works is straightforward: call a house meeting and do it once, out loud, together. Explain what it's for, hand out the join code, and have people download it in the room. Fifteen minutes with everybody present beats three weeks of chasing individuals. Lead with what's in it for them — the sober-day counter, the meetings, seeing their own balance — because that's the honest pitch and it's the one that lands.
Then you need one manager who champions it for the first couple of weeks. Somebody who answers "just do it in the app" instead of quietly re-opening the whiteboard. That's what makes it stick, and there's no substitute for it.
Name your sober living and get one join code for the whole house — not per-person invites.
Already on other software? Import your current residents from a CSV export so you're not retyping the house. Call (916) 877-6237 if you want a hand with the export.
Everyone downloads and enters the join code in the room. This is the step people skip and regret.
Our video walkthroughs cover the dashboard screen by screen — watch them, or point a new manager at them.
Being clear about what we don't offer: there's no onboarding team, no training program, and no account manager assigned to your home. There's the video guides, the help docs, and a phone number that a human answers — (916) 877-6237. That's part of how a non-profit keeps this at $60.
No per-resident pricing, no per-seat math, no penalty for filling your beds.
Non-profit · flat, unlimited homes
Start your home →Use code FIRSTMONTHFREE at checkout — your first month is free. Cancel anytime.
Where the $60 goes: Empower Next Project is a 501(c)(3) with no investors. Membership revenue funds the free resident app, rent assistance for residents in early recovery, and free transitional counseling — never private profit. See our mission →
People look for this by whatever their house is called. A sober house app, a sober home app, a recovery housing app, a transitional living app, a halfway house app — they are all describing the same two pieces: something the resident opens on their phone, and something the person running the house opens on a laptop.
That is what this is. Residents get a free app on iPhone and Android to see what they owe and pay it, check into meetings, log their sober days, request a pass, and reach their house manager. Operators get the other side: who is in which bed, who has paid, UA results, meeting attendance, curfew check-ins, and signed agreements. One app, one dashboard, one flat price — and nothing for residents to pay, ever.
There is no separate edition for a halfway house, a three-quarter house, or a transitional program. If people sleep there and someone is responsible for them, it works the same way.
A sober living app has two halves that only work together. Residents get an app on their phone for their sober-day counter, meetings, house responsibilities, agreements, and payments. The operator gets a dashboard showing the roster, membership and rent payments, drug test logs, beds, passes, curfew check-ins, and meeting attendance. Sober Living Companion is both halves of one product: the resident app is free, and the home pays a flat $60 per month.
Yes — free forever, on iPhone and Android, with no ads and no card required. Sober Living Companion is a program of Empower Next Project, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit (EIN 39-3580172). Residents are never billed for their own recovery tools. If you are in recovery and looking for a free app for yourself rather than for a house, see our free recovery app page.
They are two views of the same house. Residents see their own recovery: sober days, meetings, their responsibilities, their balance, their attendance record. Operators and house managers see the whole home: every resident, payments, drug test logs, bed occupancy, passes, curfew check-ins, agreements, and documents. When a resident checks in to a meeting or pays a fee in the app, the operator's dashboard updates — nobody re-types it.
A flat $60 per month, with unlimited residents and unlimited house managers. There is no per-resident pricing. Sober Living Companion is a non-profit program, and your membership helps fund rent assistance and free transitional counseling. Use code FIRSTMONTHFREE at checkout and your first month is free.
For the house to run on it, yes — and we would rather be straight with you that this is the real work of rolling it out. It usually takes a house meeting where you explain it once to everybody, and a manager who champions it for the first couple of weeks. Residents enter one join code for the house; there are no per-person invites to chase.
Yes. You can import your current residents from a CSV export so you don't have to re-enter your roster by hand. If you'd like help with the export, call (916) 877-6237 or email info@empowernextproject.org.
Yes. The resident app is on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The operator dashboard runs in any browser at app.soberlivingcompanion.com, and operators and house managers can also use the app on their own phones.
Yes. Multiple houses can be managed from one dashboard, each with its own join code, and you can give each house manager a role scoped to their own house so they see their residents and not everyone else's.
