The QuitGuide alternative that does the counting for you.
QuitGuide turns your quit into a study of itself, logging cravings, moods, and the places they hit; Unlooped flips the effort, crediting your clean days automatically and putting help one tap away when a craving lands.
This page is for adults quitting smoking, vaping, or pouches who want smoke-free days, money saved, and real help in the craving moment, tracked privately on their own iPhone, with no journal to keep up.
What QuitGuide gets right
Completely free, with public health behind it
QuitGuide comes from the National Cancer Institute's Smokefree.gov initiative, so the whole app is free and the guidance leans on established quit-support practice rather than upsells. That pedigree is rare in this category.
Craving tracking that teaches you your triggers
Logging where and when cravings hit, and the moods that ride along with them, builds a genuinely useful picture over time. For quitters who want to understand their own patterns, that self-study is QuitGuide's signature strength.
Evidence-informed content for adults
The tips, reminders, and encouragement come out of the Smokefree.gov program and are written for adults making a serious attempt. No gimmicks, just steady, credible material aimed at the quit itself.
Why people switch to Unlooped
No journal to keep
Unlooped never asks you to write a craving down. The counter auto-credits every clean day on its own, so your count stays accurate even in the weeks you have nothing to say.
Help in the craving, not after it
Craving SOS is one tap away when the urge hits: a breathing exercise, an urge timer, and support for the minutes that matter, right while they are happening.
Cigarettes, vapes, and pouches together
Each habit gets its own quit counter, milestones, and money saved. QuitGuide centers on smoking; Unlooped keeps up if your quit involves more than one form of nicotine.
No account, nothing uploaded
There is nothing to sign up for and no server holding your data. Your quit lives on your iPhone, with optional private iCloud sync and Face ID for habits you keep to yourself.
Unlooped vs QuitGuide at a glance
| Unlooped | QuitGuide | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | A private scoreboard: clean days, money saved, milestones, and help for cravings | A self-study quit journal: log cravings, moods, and locations to learn your patterns |
| Accounts and data | No accounts, no servers, optional private iCloud sync | Public health app; check their listing for current data practices |
| Price | Quit mode free forever. Premium is $1.99/month or $9.99/year | Completely free (public health funded) |
| In-the-moment help | Craving SOS: breathing exercise, urge timer, one tap support | Journaling, motivational reminders, and Smokefree.gov content |
| 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 | Smokefree-day tracking built around your quit |
Based on publicly available information about QuitGuide at the time of writing. Features and pricing change, so check their site for current details.
Why quitters go looking for a QuitGuide alternative
QuitGuide's core idea is honest self-study: notice each craving, record where you were, how you felt, and what time it was, and over the weeks the app shows you your patterns. That insight is real, and for people who like understanding their own data it genuinely helps. But the approach runs on one fuel, and that fuel is you doing the recording. Every craving becomes a small homework assignment, and homework has a known failure mode: it gets skipped. Miss a few entries and the picture blurs; by week three the journal has gone quiet and the app has less and less to work with, right when the quit still needs company.
Unlooped moves the effort to the other side of the craving. You do not have to record an urge for the app to be useful in one. Create a quit habit for cigarettes, vaping, or pouches, and from that moment the counter auto-credits every clean day with nothing to log and nothing to keep up. When a craving does hit, Craving SOS is one tap away: a breathing exercise, an urge timer, and support in the exact minutes the urge lives, not in the write-up afterward.
Count the days, keep the help one tap away
The number that keeps a quit alive is rarely a mood pattern; it is a streak you refuse to break and a dollar figure you get to keep. Unlooped keeps both in front of you automatically. Tell it what the habit used to cost and money saved climbs alongside your clean days, milestone by milestone. And if a slip happens, you log the setback and move on: your history, milestones, and savings stay intact, because one bad evening is a data point, not a reset to zero.
The price comparison is honest, too. QuitGuide is entirely free, and Unlooped's quit mode is also free forever: clean-day counters, milestones, money saved, gentle reminders, Craving SOS, and setback logging, all without an account. Premium, at $1.99 per month or $9.99 per year, adds on-device AI coaching through Apple Intelligence, Smart Insights, and Face ID protected private habits. Download it, name the habit, and let the count start climbing on its own.
Your progress stays yours.
A craving journal is intimate data: where you were, how you felt, and what you were doing when the urge hit. Unlooped never needs any of it, and never needs to know who you are. There is no account, no profile, and no server holding your count. Everything about your quit 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. QuitGuide comes from a public health institution and you can check their listing for current data practices; with Unlooped the answer is short, because nothing leaves your phone.
Unlooped vs QuitGuide: frequently asked questions
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