How Overcome works
Overcome takes about four minutes to set up and about ninety seconds a day after that. It is built to be opened on the worst day, not just the good ones.
Tell it what you are working on
Pick what you are tracking and when you started. Choose more than one if that is the truth of it. This is what you want to work on — it is not a diagnosis, and Overcome does not assess you or decide anything about your health.
Check in once a day
Seven sliders and a daily commitment. It takes under a minute and it is the engine for everything else — your recovery score, your trends, and the insights that need real data behind them before they will say anything at all.
Use it in the moment
When a craving arrives, open the urge tool rather than fighting it alone for an hour. Name the intensity, ride the wave with the timer, pick a grounding technique, and log how it went. That log is what later turns into a pattern you can act on.
Write when it helps
Free write, or answer a workbook prompt. Every entry is saved with a short supportive summary so a month of writing is something you can actually look back through.
Bring someone in, if you want to
Connect a coach and choose exactly what they can see. Save a trusted contact. All of it optional, all of it reversible.
Where AI fits, and where it does not
Overcome uses OpenAI’s GPT models — the technology behind ChatGPT — to write your weekly reflection, summarise a journal entry, and prepare a coach’s briefing. That means the text of a journal entry is sent to OpenAI to produce that output, through the paid API under terms that do not allow your content to train their models. If OpenAI is unavailable, a backup provider handles the request instead; our Privacy Policy names it and sets out exactly what is sent and when.
- It is a text generator, not a clinician. It does not diagnose, assess or treat.
- It only ever works from figures your own data actually supports — it is instructed never to invent one.
- It can be wrong, and it is a prompt for your own reflection rather than a finding about you.
- Your writing only reaches it when you save a journal entry, and a coach’s briefing only includes journal text if you switch journal sharing on.
What Overcome is not
Overcome is not medical care. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent any condition, it is not therapy, and it is not a substitute for professional help. Choosing what you want to work on is not a diagnosis, and the recovery score is a self-tracking number, not a clinical measurement.
It is not a crisis service. Nobody is watching your entries in real time and the app cannot summon help. If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line now.
Withdrawal can be dangerous. Withdrawal from alcohol and from some other substances can be medically serious. Speak to a health professional before you stop or change your use.
Start today, free.
The free tier is permanent and needs no card. Set up your first counter in about four minutes.
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