EasyQuit alternatives: 4 quit-smoking apps to try

EasyQuit is a solid quit-smoking tracker, best known on Android for its health timeline, showing how your body recovers hour by hour and year by year after the last cigarette, and for its achievements as the smoke-free days build up. For a lot of quitters that timeline is the app, and it works.

Full disclosure: Sobermark is our app, so we are not neutral. We have tried to keep everything below fair, and we tell you when a rival is the better fit.

Still, people look around. Some want more structure than a timeline, something closer to a guided quit. Some want a plainer counter with less going on. Some are quitting cigarettes and something else at once and want one app for both. And some would simply rather use an official health service tool than a commercial one. The four apps below cover those four wishes.

1. Smoke Free

Smoke Free is one of the best known quit-smoking apps anywhere, on both iOS and Android. Like EasyQuit it shows health stats as your body recovers, but its distinctive feature is missions: small daily tasks that give the first weeks of a quit some structure, so you are doing something about the habit rather than only watching a timer. It has been around a long time and has a large user base.

It is the closest thing here to a straight upgrade path from EasyQuit, especially if you are on iPhone. Some features are known to sit behind a paid tier, so check the store listing for the current split.

2. Quitzilla

Quitzilla is a habit and addiction quitting tracker for Android rather than a smoking specialist. You can run multiple counters at once, cigarettes alongside anything else you are dropping, and its reasons lists keep your own words about why you quit in front of you. What you give up against EasyQuit is the detailed health timeline; what you gain is flexibility.

It suits people who think of smoking as one habit among several they are changing, and who want one plain app for the lot.

3. Sobermark

Sobermark, our app, is a quitting tracker for Android that handles smoking as one of its core habits, alongside alcohol, vaping, weed, gambling or a custom one. You set your own numbers, cigarettes a day and price per pack, and it shows days smoke free, money saved, time reclaimed and cigarettes avoided. Craving SOS tools, a hold-on breathing exercise and a ride-it-out timer, are well suited to the short, sharp nature of nicotine cravings, and a journal with moods helps you spot your trigger times.

There is no account and no sign up, entries stay on your phone, and Bern, a friendly sun bear, encourages without nagging. A slip resets the counter but never earns a lecture. Core tracking is free; Sobermark Pro is £14.99 a year with a 7 day free trial, £2.99 a week, or £24.99 lifetime. Fair warning on the trade-off: it does not have EasyQuit's medical-style health timeline, and there is no iOS version yet.

4. NHS Quit Smoking app

If you are in England, the NHS Quit Smoking app is the official free option, built around supporting the crucial early weeks of a quit. It comes from the health service rather than an app business, so there is nothing to buy and no upsell, and it connects to the wider Better Health stop smoking advice, which can point you towards proven support like nicotine replacement and local stop smoking services.

Feature for feature it is simpler than the commercial apps, but its advice has a kind of authority the rest of this list cannot match. For a UK smoker who wants official backing at zero cost, it should probably be the first download, whatever else you run beside it.

Who should pick what

If EasyQuit's health timeline is what motivates you, consider staying put, or move to Smoke Free, which pairs health stats with daily missions and is the strongest pick for iPhone users, since neither EasyQuit (Android focused) nor Sobermark (Android only) helps there.

If you are in England and want official, evidence-backed support for free, start with the NHS Quit Smoking app. If you are quitting several things at once on Android, Quitzilla's multiple counters or Sobermark's multi-habit tracking both work; pick Quitzilla for plain counters and reasons lists, Sobermark if you want craving tools, a journal and money-saved totals with a kinder tone and no account.

Common questions

Do quit-smoking apps actually help?

An app cannot quit for you, but tracking, craving tools and visible money saved help many people stay stopped, and structured support is consistently better than willpower alone. The NHS route can also point you to nicotine replacement and local services, which have good evidence behind them.

Can I track vaping instead of cigarettes?

Sobermark tracks vaping as a habit in its own right, and Quitzilla's custom counters can cover it too. Smoking-specialist apps vary; check whether their health timelines assume cigarettes before relying on them for vaping.

Will I lose my smoke-free days if I switch apps?

No. Every tracker here lets you set your quit date in the past, so the days you have already done come with you.

Why does Sobermark not show a health recovery timeline?

Because generic timelines drift close to medical claims, and we would rather stay on the safe side of that line. Sobermark sticks to what it can calculate honestly from your own numbers: days, money, time and cigarettes avoided.