A 12-step app that keeps pace with you

If you have come looking for an AA app or a 12-step app, you probably already know the shape of the work. The steps ask for honesty, then for action, then for a kind of maintenance that becomes a way of living. What most apps get wrong is the pace. They turn the steps into a checklist, or a dashboard, or a streak to defend. Twelva is built around the opposite belief: this is slow work, and slow work deserves a tool that doesn't hurry you.

Work all twelve steps, at your own pace

Twelva carries the full arc — Step One through Step Twelve — as guided reflection rather than reading you a script. Across the steps there are around 767 reflective questions, written to be sat with rather than answered quickly. You move at whatever pace is honest for you. Some days that is two questions; some days it is one sentence and a long pause. The app never pushes you to the next step before you are ready, and it never penalizes a day you needed for something else.

You can come to the steps in the order they are written, or return to an earlier one when life asks you to look at it again. A Fourth Step inventory you began months ago is still there, exactly as you left it, waiting without judgment.

An AI sponsor for the 3am moments

A sponsor is irreplaceable, and Twelva is not trying to replace one. But sponsors sleep, and cravings don't keep office hours. The built-in AI sponsor companion is there for the hard moments in between calls — the late-night urge, the resentment that won't settle, the wave that arrives when no one else is awake.

It is tradition-aware: it speaks in the language of the path you have chosen, whether that is the Twelve Steps with a higher power, the steps as secular principles, or another framework entirely. And it is privacy-first — what you share in those moments is not used to train AI models. It is a place to be honest at the exact moment honesty is hardest.

A Step-aware Library, not a generic feed

Recovery reading should meet you where the work is. The Twelva Library holds reading and study plans tailored to each tradition, so the material you open lines up with the path you are walking rather than throwing the same generic content at everyone. If the Twelve Steps are your spine, the Library deepens them; if you draw on other approaches too, it has room for those as well.

Private journaling, because early recovery is vulnerable

The most honest things you write in recovery are also the most private. Twelva treats them that way. Your journal entries are encrypted on your device by default, and if you turn on cloud backup, that backup is encrypted as well. Twelva never sells your data and never trains AI models on it. The inventory work, the amends you are rehearsing, the things you are only ready to admit to yourself — they stay yours.

Streaks and milestones that don't threaten you

Counters can become a quiet source of dread. Twelva keeps your sobriety streak and your milestones, but it also keeps a lifetime "days earned" counter that never resets on a slip. A relapse is not erased from your record of effort. If a hard day comes, the app is built to meet it with steadiness rather than shame — and crisis resources, including the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and SAMHSA's helpline at 1-800-662-4357, are built in and never more than a tap away.

If the Twelve Steps aren't your only path

The Twelve Steps are the spine of Twelva, but they are not a requirement. Plenty of people in recovery draw on more than one approach, or move between them over time. Twelva supports several first-class paths alongside the steps — SMART Recovery, Refuge Recovery, Al-Anon, CBT-informed practice, and a fully secular, non-religious path. You are welcome to work the steps without any belief in a higher power, and the AI sponsor will follow your lead rather than steer you.

If you are still finding your way into the work, our guide on how to work the 12 steps is a calm place to begin. And if you simply have questions about how Twelva works, the FAQ covers the practical details.

Built to align with the steps — independently

Twelva is an independent companion. It is built to align with the structure and spirit of the Twelve Steps, but it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Alcoholics Anonymous. AA's own traditions keep the fellowship unaffiliated with outside organizations, and we hold that with respect. Twelva sits alongside the fellowship — a private, day-to-day place for the inner part of the work, available whenever you need it.