Common questions.

Yes, always. Sober Sidekick is completely free to use. We partner with community-based health plans in the U.S. that enable us to offer additional benefits to their members at no cost to them.

By default, yes. You don’t need to use your real name. Some members choose to share their identity over time — that’s completely up to you.

Real peers who are experiencing similar scenarios in their own recovery journey. Not bots, not therapists — people who genuinely understand because they’ve been there.

No. Sober Sidekick is complementary to treatment, not a replacement. It’s also not a replacement for in-person community and recovery programs. Think of it as the support that’s there when nothing else is — at 3am, in a parking lot, on a hard day.

Sober Sidekick is substance agnostic and addiction agnostic. Our community includes people recovering from alcohol, drugs, gambling, porn addiction, and other behavioral issues. If you’re working on recovery from anything, you belong here.

We partner with community-based health plans in the U.S. These partnerships allow health plans to offer Sober Sidekick as an additional benefit to their members. Our business model is structurally aligned — we only succeed when our members stay in recovery.