Onward

Onward

A sobriety tracker, kept as a ship’s log.

Days without alcohol, counted as a voyage across real historical seas — with the true stories of the ports you pass, and a record that never leaves your phone.

Where this has got to

Still under construction.

Onward is being built and tested. A small private beta is coming — if you’d like to be part of it, or you just want to know when it’s ready, get in touch below.

Five voyages, sailed a day at a time. Currently: somewhere off the Azores.

What it is

Every clear day is a day's sailing.

Your days without alcohol carry you along a real voyage — Slocum's Spray, Darwin's Beagle, Shackleton's Endurance. A hard day is weather, not failure: the voyage keeps everything you've already made good.

Reaching a port unlocks its story.

Forty-one landfalls, each a real place with a true account of what happened there — sourced, not invented. Finish a voyage and you earn its passage log: the history, set against your own crossing.

It stays on your phone.

No account. No sign-in. Nothing uploaded, nothing tracked, no ads, ever. Onward runs entirely on your own device — which also means the record is yours to keep, and yours to lose, so it will nag you gently to save a copy.

Onward was built by one person, for himself, because nothing else counted the days in a way he wanted to look at. It's free, and it will stay free.

It's a log book, not treatment, and it isn't written by a clinician. It won't tell you you're doing badly, and it won't congratulate you for things you didn't do.

Beta, questions, or just to say hello:

hello@voyageonward.com
If you need more than a log book. If drinking is causing you harm, or you're finding it hard to stop, real people can help — and asking is not a failure of anything. If you've been drinking heavily every day, stopping suddenly can be medically dangerous; a doctor can help you come off safely.
UK — Drinkline: 0300 123 1110 (free, confidential) · Samaritans: 116 123, any reason, any hour. Elsewhere — aa.org · smartrecovery.org · r/stopdrinking.