A private recovery app, built so it stays yours

Most recovery apps were designed for engagement first and privacy second — public feeds, leaderboards, follower counts, and data pipelines pointed somewhere you cannot see. That model asks you to perform your recovery in front of an audience, and it treats your hardest moments as content. For a person in early recovery, that is the opposite of safety.

Twelva starts from a different premise. The work of recovery is private and often raw, so the tool that holds it should default to discretion, not exposure. You should be able to write the true thing, track the real day, and ask for help in the middle of a craving without wondering who else can see it or where it goes next.

What "private by design" actually means here

"Private" is an easy word to put on a homepage. Below is what it concretely means inside Twelva — stated plainly, with no claims we cannot stand behind.

Your private recovery journal

The journal is where the most sensitive writing happens — relapse notes, resentments, the inventory you would not say out loud yet. So it gets the most careful handling. Journal entries are encrypted on your device by default. They stay on your phone unless you deliberately enable cloud backup, and when you do, that backup is encrypted too.

This is the quiet promise behind a private recovery journal: you can be honest on the page because the page is not a broadcast. Nothing you write is mined for an ad profile, packaged into a dataset, or sold. If you ever want a clean break, you control your data — and you can read exactly how it is handled on the privacy policy.

An AI sponsor that is privacy-first

Cravings rarely keep office hours. Twelva includes an AI "sponsor" companion you can reach day or night, in the language of your chosen path — whether that is the Twelve Steps, SMART Recovery, Refuge Recovery, Al-Anon, a CBT-informed approach, or a secular one. It is there for the hard moments between meetings.

It is also privacy-first. The sponsor is built to help you through a difficult moment without your recovery data being used to train models. A companion you can be candid with at 3 a.m. is only useful if candor is safe — so privacy is part of the design, not an afterthought bolted on.

The sponsor is a companion, not a clinician. Twelva is a recovery companion, not therapy, medical care, or emergency support. If you are in danger, Twelva keeps crisis resources one tap away — the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and SAMHSA at 1-800-662-4357.

Use it anonymously, without an audience

Some people want a sponsor in the room and a chip in their pocket; some want to do the work quietly first. Twelva supports the quiet way. You can use it privately, without a public profile, without followers, and without a feed you are obligated to post into.

Signing in is optional and exists for one practical reason: it enables encrypted cloud backup, so your sobriety date, streaks, stepwork, and journal can move with you to a new device instead of vanishing with an old one. Your lifetime "days earned" counter — the one that never resets on a slip — is yours to keep, privately, however you choose to use the app.

What stays on your device, what is optional

A clear line is worth more than a long policy. Here is the short version of where your recovery data lives.

Your data	Default	If you opt in
Journal entries	Encrypted on your device	Encrypted cloud backup
Sobriety date & streaks	On your device	Synced via encrypted backup
Stepwork & reflections	On your device	Synced via encrypted backup
Sold to third parties	Never	Never
Used to train AI	Never	Never

If privacy is the reason you are here, you are also welcome to read more about how Twelva works for people who want recovery without a religious frame — see the secular recovery app page — or browse the frequently asked questions for the practical details. When you are ready, you can get the app and keep your recovery exactly where it belongs: with you.