One number. No one else in the room.
Day One counts the dry days you have won. A slip costs one day and never the count — the figure holds, then picks up again. It does not send you back to nothing at three in the morning.
It is built to be opened on the worst day, not the anniversary. Open it, read the number, close it. Nothing asks you to post it, defend it, or say what you stopped.
§ I — The program
What Day One holds, what it refuses to do with it, and the promise attached to the price.
The screen is a figure and a date. No dashboard, no charts competing for the figure's attention, no card suggesting what you might try next.
The count is cumulative: the dry days you have won stay won. Tap once on a dry day — that is the whole practice.
The figureMost counters zero you out at day thirty and call it motivation. Day One takes the position that the thirty days happened.
A slip shows on the calendar as one marked day. The tally holds where it is and resumes the next dry day. There is no lecture attached to it.
No resetNothing in the app names the habit. Drink, weed, nicotine, the bet, or something quieter you would simply rather be done with — the counter does not need to know, and never asks.
Which also means nothing on your phone announces it for you.
UnnamedThere is no feed, no cohort, no coach, no streak visible to anyone but you. Nobody is notified when you open it and nobody is notified when you don't.
You do not owe a stranger a streak, and Day One is built so that you never can.
PrivateOne payment of $19.99. Not a trial that becomes a subscription, not a tier with a better version of your own number behind it. You buy the counter and the counter is yours, through every release that follows.
Thirty days, money back, no reasons asked. If it turns out you wanted something louder, or something with a program in it, write and the payment comes back — and the count stays on your device either way, because it was never anywhere else.
We will not add an account later, we will not add advertising later, and we will not sell the company's word on that to someone who intends to break it.
The house's wordThe measure of a sobriety counter is not the day you hit ninety. It is whether you are willing to open the thing on the day it went badly — which is the only day the number was ever for.
Standing prohibitions
Five things Day One will not do, held as terms of the program rather than as a roadmap that can quietly change.
§ II — The counter
The whole program, bought outright, on the day you buy it.
$19.99
Pay once and the counter is yours — every release after it, for as long as it keeps counting. There is nothing to renew, nothing to forget, and nothing to cancel at two in the morning.
The terms
§ III — Questions
The four questions people actually send before they will put this on a phone that other people occasionally hold.
Not from us. No account is ever required, so there is no record of you at this end to subpoena, sell, or leak — and no confirmation email landing in a shared inbox. On the phone itself, the app is called Day One and shows a number and a date; nothing on that screen names drink, recovery, or a program. There is one reminder, off unless you switch it on, at an hour you pick.
One day is marked on the calendar and the count holds where it is. It does not reset, it does not display a broken streak, and nothing in the app changes tone at you. The next dry day you tap, the figure moves again — a slip costs a day, never the days already won.
Because free counters are paid for somehow — by advertising sold against people at their lowest, by a subscription that arrives after the trial, or by a community whose engagement is the product. Day One takes $19.99 once, and after that has no reason to want anything from you. That is the entire business model, stated plainly.
You never need one to use Day One — the full 7-day trial and the free core work with nothing asked. Paying unlocks by App Store purchase, or by signing in or pasting the key from a web purchase; either way the count itself lives on your device and nowhere else. We run no servers holding it, which means we cannot read it, restore it, or hand it to anyone.
The register
Be written in for the day Day One opens.
One address, kept on our ledger and used once: the day the counter ships. No newsletter follows it, and it is never attached to a count.