The My QuitBuddy alternative that keeps your quit on your phone.
My QuitBuddy pairs your quit with a plan, a community board, and plenty of encouragement; Unlooped keeps the counting and the help, and leaves the sign-posted program out.
This page is for smokers, vapers, and pouch users who want smoke-free days, money saved, and real help in a craving, tracked privately on their own iPhone, without a program to follow or a board to post on.
What My QuitBuddy gets right
A structured quit plan
My QuitBuddy walks you toward a quit date and frames the days after it, and for people who do best with a laid-out program, that structure is genuinely useful. It gives week one a shape.
Free, with public health behind it
It comes from a government health initiative, so the whole experience is free and the advice leans on established quit-support practice rather than upsells.
Danger-time reminders
Flagging the moments you usually smoke, the morning coffee, the drive home, and nudging you right then is a smart idea, and My QuitBuddy has made it a signature feature.
Why people switch to Unlooped
No program, no check-ins
Unlooped does not hand you a curriculum. You name the habit, set the date, and the counter does the rest. Quitting on your own terms, not on a plan's schedule.
Help that talks back
Craving SOS walks you through the hard minutes as they happen, and the on-device AI coach digs into your triggers privately, no community board reply required.
Cigarettes, vapes, and pouches together
Each gets its own counter, milestones, and money saved. If your quit shifts from smoking to vaping to pouches, one app keeps up with the whole story.
No account, nothing uploaded
There is nothing to sign up for and no server holding your count. Your quit lives on your iPhone, with optional private iCloud sync and Face ID for habits you keep to yourself.
Unlooped vs My QuitBuddy at a glance
| Unlooped | My QuitBuddy | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | A private scoreboard: smoke-free days, money saved, milestones, and help for cravings | A guided quit program with a plan, tips, and community encouragement |
| Accounts and data | No accounts, no servers, optional private iCloud sync | App-based program; check their listing for current data practices |
| Price | Quit mode free forever. Premium is $1.99/month or $9.99/year | Free (public health funded) |
| In-the-moment help | Craving SOS plus an on-device AI coach | Danger-time alerts, tips, and community encouragement |
| Beyond cigarettes | Cigarettes, vaping, and nicotine pouches, plus any other habit | Centered on quitting smoking |
| After a slip | Setback logged; history, milestones, and savings stay intact | Program-style progress built around the quit date |
Based on publicly available information about My QuitBuddy at the time of writing. Features and pricing change, so check their site for current details.
Why quitters go looking for a My QuitBuddy alternative
My QuitBuddy is a program. It wants a quit date, it structures the days around it, and it cheers you along a path someone laid out for you. For a lot of people, especially in the first committed week, that structure is exactly the scaffolding they need. But programs assume you want to be enrolled. Plenty of quitters do not. They have already decided, they do not want a curriculum or a community board, and they mostly want one thing: an honest count they can protect, and something useful to reach for when a craving hits at the wrong time.
Unlooped is built for that second kind of quitter. It skips the enrollment entirely: no account, no plan to configure, no content drip. You create a quit habit for cigarettes, vaping, or pouches, tell it what the habit used to cost, and from that moment your smoke-free days and money saved climb on their own. The help is still there when you need it, it just is not scheduled. Craving SOS is one tap from the home screen and talks you through the minutes that matter, and the optional on-device AI coach goes deeper on triggers, privately, whenever you want it.
Danger times, handled differently
My QuitBuddy's danger-time alerts point at something true: a quit fails at specific minutes, not on average days. Unlooped covers those minutes from the other direction. Instead of predicting when you might struggle, it makes the moment you ARE struggling as easy as possible to survive: open the app, hit Craving SOS, and let it walk you through until the wave passes. Gentle reminders are there if you want a daily touch point, but nothing pings you on a schedule you did not choose.
And because the smoke break was never only about nicotine, Unlooped ships a build mode next to quit mode. Put the replacement ritual on the board, the short walk, the glass of water, the two minutes of breathing, and let that streak grow while the smoke-free count climbs. Quit mode itself is free forever. Download it, name the habit, and start counting; if day one becomes day one hundred, every one of those days is still yours, on your phone.
Your progress stays yours.
A program needs to know where you are in it; Unlooped never needs to know who you are at all. There is no account, no profile, and no server holding your smoke-free count. Everything you log about smoking, vaping, or pouches stays on your iPhone, a habit you would rather keep private can hide behind Face ID, and the only sync is optional private iCloud between your own devices. Your quit is nobody's data, including ours.
Unlooped vs My QuitBuddy: frequently asked questions
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