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 home memberships help fund our other programs — rent assistance for people in early recovery and free transitional counseling. Read our mission →
Residents, rent, UAs, beds, passes, curfew check-ins, meetings, announcements, medications, custom forms and intake applications, outcomes reporting, and e-signed agreements — one place, $60/month, unlimited houses and residents.
Updated October 4, 2026 · Includes a 2026 pricing comparison (re-checked on each vendor's site that day), a buyer's checklist and a setup guide.
The right sober living management software depends on what you run, how big you are and what you can spend. Peer-run sober living homes and recovery residences mainly need housing operations (residents, beds, rent, drug tests, agreements and check-ins), while clinical programs such as IOP or PHP need an EHR with clinical charting and insurance billing. Pricing models differ too: per bed, per staff user, by quote or one flat fee, so compare them at your own bed and staff count. Sober Living Companion is housing-operations software for peer-run sober living homes, not an EHR. It costs one flat $60 a month per organization (not per bed or per resident), includes a free resident app, and is run by the non-profit Empower Next Project.
Sober living management software is the system of record for a recovery home. Instead of keeping your roster in a spreadsheet, your rent ledger in a notes app, your UA results in a binder, and your curfew accountability in a group text at 11pm, it puts all of it in one place — and gives every resident an app that connects them to it.
That matters because the work of running a sober living isn't one job. It's a housing job, a bookkeeping job, an accountability job, and a documentation job, all at once, usually done by one or two people who would rather be spending that time with residents.
Most homes we talk to are running some version of the same setup: a spreadsheet that only one person really understands, a group text where passes and curfews get approved and then forgotten, a paper binder of house agreements that no one can find when it matters, and a rent ledger reconstructed from memory at the end of the month.
None of that is negligence. It's what happens when the tools cost more than the home can justify. The problem isn't the spreadsheet — it's that a missed rent conversation or an unsigned agreement can turn into a housing crisis for someone in their first ninety days.
Everything below is in the product today. Depth beats adjectives — here is the actual walkthrough.
Every resident has a record: who they are, which house and bed they're in, when they moved in, and their history with the home. Your roster stops being a spreadsheet tab and becomes something a new house manager can pick up on their first day.
Residents pay by credit or debit card inside the app, through your own Stripe account so the money lands with you, or through your own custom payment link, and you record cash, check, Zelle, Venmo and Cash App payments on their profile in a tap — with a receipt you can send and a payment history the resident can see. Fees can be weekly or monthly, and partial payments are tracked, which is the part most homes need most: when someone pays $180 of $250 on Friday, the balance is on the record instead of in your head. You see who's current, who's short, and by how much.
Log each UA against the resident's record with the date and result, so test history is a timeline you can actually look back through — not a binder page that walked out of the office.
Track beds by house: which are filled, which are open, who's in which room. When a referral calls asking if you have space, the answer takes seconds. Empty beds are the quiet way a sober living loses the ability to stay open — see them before the month ends. More on bed management →
Residents request passes in the app; you approve or deny them, and the record stays attached to the resident. A pass approved in a group text is a pass that never happened as far as documentation is concerned. This one gets remembered.
Residents check in at curfew from the app with location attached. You get a straight answer about who's home without a manager making eleven phone calls at 11pm.
Residents open the finder for AA, NA, SMART Recovery and Recovery Dharma online meetings — or go to one in person — and tap to check in. In-person check-ins record the resident's location, and a second location check about 35 minutes later at the same spot marks the meeting location confirmed. Online meetings are logged as self-reported attendance. No more signed cards, no more paper slips that get lost between the meeting and the house. Attendance, with in-person check-ins location-confirmed, shows up on the resident's record, which is what you need when a court, a probation officer, or a treatment center asks.
Assign house responsibilities and let residents see their own. Accountability works better when it's written down and visible to the person it applies to, instead of relitigated at a house meeting.
Store house documents where staff can find them, and have residents e-sign the house agreement in the app at move-in. The signed copy lives on their record. When you need to show what someone agreed to, it's there — signed, dated, and not in a binder. Build your own forms too — intake packets, incident reports, consents — from templates or from scratch, send them to a resident to complete and sign, and keep the result on their file. Blank intake, agreement and discharge templates →
Send an announcement to a whole house from the dashboard instead of a group text nobody can find later. Keep each resident's medications — name, dose and schedule, including MAT — on their profile; residents can add their own from the app, and staff see the list for med counts.
Every home gets an application link you can put on your website or text to a referral. Applicants fill it out in a browser, choose the house they're applying to, and sign; the application lands under Pending Admission with everything they entered. You can edit the questions yourself, run several application links for different programs, and a "does not qualify" answer is flagged before anyone is admitted. An optional pending-admission board gives you a separate place to track people who have applied or been accepted but haven't moved in yet.
Enroll residents in check-ins at intake, monthly, quarterly, at exit and 30/90/180 days after, emailed to them automatically. The report rolls up retention, exits, employment and housing status at intake, and follow-up results, with plain CSV exports shaped for grant reports. How outcomes measurement works →
Run several homes from one dashboard, with per-house manager roles. Each house manager sees their own house; you keep consolidated visibility across all of them. Growing from one house to four shouldn't mean four spreadsheets and four group texts. House manager job description and duties →
Many tools in this category charge per bed or per staff user, and some include the resident app only on their top tier. With us there's one price per organization, and the resident app comes with it.
We build it this way because we're a non-profit and the residents are who we're here for. Every resident in a participating home gets the app free, forever: a sober-day counter, an online meeting finder, GPS check-in at in-person meetings, their house responsibilities, e-signed agreements, membership payments, and a crisis "I need help now" button.
The accountability you need and the recovery tools they need are the same app. That's why residents actually open it — and why your curfew check-ins and meeting attendance come back filled in.
Per-bed pricing punishes you for the thing you're trying to do, which is house people. Fill a bed, pay more. We didn't want a price that makes an operator hesitate before saying yes to one more person.
So it's one flat $60 per month, with unlimited residents. Sober Living Companion is a program of Empower Next Project, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit, and your membership helps fund rent assistance and free transitional counseling for people in early recovery.
We have no investors and no ad networks. The price answers to the mission, not to a growth target. See where the money goes →
You can import your current residents from a CSV export, so switching doesn't mean retyping your roster at midnight. Export from whatever you're on now, send it over, and we'll help you get set up — often the same day. We've done this for homes coming from OneStep and Behave Health exports and from plain spreadsheets.
If you're not sure what your export should look like, call (916) 877-6237 and a person will walk through it with you.
Recovery records are among the most sensitive data a small organization can hold. Sober Living Companion uses bank-level encryption in transit and at rest.
Role-based access means staff only see what they need — a house manager sees their house, not every house — and residents control their own accounts.
Location is captured only when a resident taps to check in, never in the background, and we never sell data or use it for advertising. Our privacy policy is written to be consistent with HIPAA's safeguards where they apply. We don't put a "HIPAA compliant" badge on the page, because no software can make a home compliant on its own — whether HIPAA even covers your residence is a question for your counsel.
There is no implementation fee and no training package to buy. Most homes are running on it the same day they sign up.
Card payments and autopay run through your own Stripe account, so rent lands with you, not with us. We take no cut of resident payments; Stripe's standard card fees apply.
Payments export to CSV and to a QuickBooks-friendly format from the Payments tab. Most operators send that file monthly instead of retyping anything.
Bring your roster in from a CSV export of OneStep, Behave Health, Sobriety Hub or a spreadsheet. We help with the mapping.
Residents, payments, meeting attendance and outcome measures export to plain CSV, and the outcomes report also produces a SAMHSA GPRA-shaped file for State Opioid Response reporting. Nothing is locked in a proprietary format, and you own your data.
Your public application link works on any website, and residents can add house meetings and events to their phone's calendar.
What we don't have: a public API, insurance billing, or an EHR integration. If you need those, see how the options compare.
One roster, one rent ledger, curfew and UA logs that don't live in a group text. At $60 a month it costs less than one missed rent conversation.
Homes running 5, 10 or 40 houses use one dashboard with per-house managers, house-level join codes and QR codes for residents, and a money log per resident. The price does not change when you open the next house.
Outcomes check-ins and follow-ups produce the retention, employment and housing numbers funders ask for, exported as CSV, so reporting season stops being a scramble through binders.
Signed house agreements, timestamped UA results, meeting attendance with GPS, documented passes and incident notes are the paper trail a certification review or a court asks for, kept on the resident's record instead of in a filing cabinet.
Eight questions to ask any vendor, with our own answers so you can hold us to them.
Published prices from each vendor's own site, re-checked October 4, 2026, with a link so you can check them yourself. Vendors that don't publish prices are marked "contact for pricing".
| Software | Pricing model | Resident app | Trial / terms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sober Living Companion | $60/month flat, unlimited houses and residents, no setup fee. Run by a non-profit. | Free, iPhone and Android | First month free (code FIRSTMONTHFREE), cancel anytime |
| Sobriety Hub | $75 per full staff user per month ($65 on annual), $25 per client-manager user, plus a $250 one-time setup fee. Card processing 3.9%, ACH 1.2%. | Free resident user | No free trial; month-to-month |
| Oathtrack | $2.99, $4.99 or $7.99 per bed per month by tier; unlimited staff users. | Resident portal on the $7.99/bed tier | 30-day free trial |
| Sober Living App | Contact for pricing (LITE for 1–3 homes, PRO for 3+). No prices published. | Client portal (web) included in LITE | Quote-based |
| Behave Health | Contact for pricing (LITE / PRO). No prices published. | Client portal included in LITE | Quote-based |
| One Step Software | No prices published on its site; it offers a demo booking. | Not stated | Not stated |
A 12-bed house with two staff logins: Sobriety Hub is $100 a month (one full user plus one $25 client-manager user) to $150 (two full users), plus a one-time $250 onboarding fee; Oathtrack with the resident portal is about $96 a month; Sober Living Companion is $60. A 40-bed operator with six staff: Sobriety Hub about $200–$450 a month depending on how many are full users, Oathtrack Diamond about $320, Sober Living Companion still $60.
If you need clinical charting, insurance billing or an EHR, Behave Health is built for that and we are not. For a small house, per-bed pricing can cost less than our $60: Oathtrack's own example puts 10 beds at $29.90–$79.90 a month, so compare at your bed count. For everything else a recovery residence does day to day, the feature list above is the comparison that matters. Longer comparison →
Based on each company's own website as of October 4, 2026.
Best for: Behavioral health organizations that want admissions, clinical records, billing and house operations on one platform, from recovery residences up to licensed outpatient, residential and inpatient providers.
Pricing: Not published. Every plan is “Contact for pricing,” with a written quote.
Best for: Recovery residences, from one home to multi-house organizations, that want resident records, billing, drug testing and staff messaging priced per bed with unlimited staff users.
Pricing: $2.99, $4.99 or $7.99 per bed per month (Basics, Professional, Diamond). No setup fees; 30-day free trial of Basics and Professional.
Best for: Sober living and recovery residence operators who want check-ins, intake forms, outcomes tracking and automated rent collection in one place.
Pricing: No prices published on its site; it offers a demo booking.
Best for: Recovery residence operators, from 1–3 homes to multi-home organizations, who want a housing-focused, browser-based platform for admissions, resident records, billing, drug testing and a resident portal.
Pricing: Not published. Both plans, LITE (suggested for 1–3 homes) and PRO (3+ homes), are “Contact for pricing.”
Best for: Peer-run sober living homes, from one house to many, that want housing operations and a free resident app at one flat price. Not built for clinical programs that need an EHR.
Pricing: $60 per month per organization, flat (not per bed, resident or staff user). No contract; first month free with code FIRSTMONTHFREE. Resident app free.
Best for: Sober living and recovery housing operators (from under 10 beds to 450+, in its own words) who want a recovery-specific platform priced per staff user rather than per bed or resident.
Pricing: $75 per full staff user per month ($65 paid annually), $25 per client-manager user ($20 annually), resident users free, plus a one-time $250 onboarding fee. Card processing 3.9%, ACH 1.2%. No free trial.
Best for: People opening or growing a recovery home who want training, help with certification, a network brand and referrals, with operating software bundled into membership.
Pricing: The software is not sold separately. It comes with the Mastery Program (VSL Charter), which is priced on application and not published.
Listed alphabetically. Each summary restates the company's own published positioning; we haven't tested other vendors' claims, and prices change, so confirm on their sites.
Sober living management software is an all-in-one platform that helps recovery housing operators run their homes: tracking residents, membership and rent payments, drug tests, beds and occupancy, passes, curfew check-ins, meeting attendance, chores, documents, and signed house agreements in one place instead of across spreadsheets, group texts, and paper binders.
One flat $60/month, with unlimited residents and no per-bed or add-on fees. The resident app is always free. Sober Living Companion is run by Empower Next Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Use code FIRSTMONTHFREE at checkout to get your first month free; you can cancel anytime.
Yes, free forever, on iPhone and Android. Residents use it to count sober days, find online meetings and check in to meetings with GPS, keep up with house responsibilities, e-sign agreements, pay their membership fee, and reach help in a crisis. Cost is never a barrier to a resident's own recovery tools.
Residents can pay by credit or debit card inside the app, through your own Stripe account, and those payments are recorded automatically. Cash, check, Zelle, Venmo and Cash App payments are recorded on the resident's profile in a tap, with a receipt you can send and a payment history the resident can see. You can also add your own custom payment link, which residents see on their Pay screen. Partial payments are tracked, so if someone pays part of what they owe you can see the balance rather than guessing from memory or a text thread.
Yes. Operators can manage multiple homes from one dashboard, with per-house manager roles so each house manager sees their own house while the operator keeps consolidated visibility across every location.
Yes. You can import your current residents from a CSV export, so you don't have to retype your roster. Send us your export and we'll help you get set up — often the same day. Call (916) 877-6237.
Creating your organization at soberlivingcompanion.com/start takes a few minutes. Add your houses and bed counts, then add residents one at a time or send us a CSV export from your current system and we import it, usually the same day. Residents join by entering the house join code or scanning its QR code in the free app, and the first house agreement can go out for e-signature the same day. There is no implementation fee.
Yes. Operators and house managers use the web dashboard at app.soberlivingcompanion.com or the iPhone and Android apps, with the same login. Residents use the free iPhone and Android app.
No. The operator membership is month to month at $60, with no setup fee, no per-resident charge and no contract. Cancel any time from your billing settings.
Sober Living Companion uses bank-level encryption in transit and at rest, with role-based access so staff only see what they need, and residents control their own accounts. Location is captured only when a resident taps to check in, never in the background, and we never sell data. Our privacy policy is written to be consistent with HIPAA's safeguards where they apply; whether HIPAA covers your home is a question for your counsel, and no software can make a home compliant on its own.
It depends on how you're set up. For a home that wants every resident on a free app, rent collection built in, intake applications, outcomes reporting and one flat price, Sober Living Companion is the strongest fit. If you need clinical charting or insurance billing, look at an EHR such as Behave Health. Published 2026 pricing, re-checked October 4, 2026: Sober Living Companion $60/month flat; Sobriety Hub $75 per full staff user and $25 per client-manager user per month, plus a one-time $250 onboarding fee; Oathtrack $2.99 to $7.99 per bed per month; Sober Living App, Behave Health and One Step do not publish prices. The comparison table above links each source.
It depends on what you run and how each price grows with you. For one to a few peer-run houses that mainly need rent, beds, drug tests, agreements and check-ins, the published prices are: Oathtrack $2.99, $4.99 or $7.99 per bed per month with unlimited staff users (its own example puts 10 beds at $29.90 to $79.90 a month); Sobriety Hub $75 per full staff user and $25 per client-manager user per month, plus a one-time $250 onboarding fee; and Sober Living Companion one flat $60 a month per organization, with a free resident app. Per-bed pricing can cost less than a flat fee for a very small house and more as you add beds, and per-user pricing depends on how many staff log in. Sober Living App and Behave Health suggest their LITE plan for 1–3 homes and quote prices on request, and One Step doesn't publish prices. If you run a clinical program such as IOP or PHP, you need an EHR with charting and insurance billing, such as Behave Health; Sober Living Companion is not an EHR. If you are opening your first home and want training, a network brand and referrals along with software, Vanderburgh Sober Living bundles its operator tools into its charter membership. Whichever you consider, try the day-to-day workflow with your own residents before you commit.
Software doesn't certify a home, but it keeps the records a certification review or a court asks for: signed house agreements, timestamped drug test results, meeting attendance with GPS, curfew check-ins, passes, incident notes and discharge outcomes, all on the resident's record and exportable.
Sober Living Companion is a program of Empower Next Project, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit (EIN 39-3580172). Home memberships help fund our other programs: a free app for every resident, rent assistance for people in early recovery, and free transitional counseling. We have no investors — pricing answers to the mission, not to growth targets.
