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Category comparison · reviewed August 12, 2026
Compare the four workflows that change daily life inside a recovery residence.
Feature lists are easy to make long. A better software decision comes from testing geofencing, the resident experience, business finance, and maintenance from the first action through the owner's final review.
Method and disclosure: Recovery House HQ publishes this page. We reviewed the linked first-party public pages on August 12, 2026; we did not enter competitor accounts, test implementation quality, or verify private proposals. “Documented” means a public source describes the capability—not that we independently proved its completeness, reliability, or fit. Where public materials are silent, we say so and recommend a live demonstration.
Identity check: which “Sober Living App” is compared?
The product in this comparison is Sober Living App by Behave Health Corp. Its official site identifies it as a Behave Health product for recovery-housing operators and links sign-in to Behave Health. Its current mobile-access page describes a browser-based web application and says no separate installable application is included. A similarly named Apple App Store listing published by HealthBook LLC is a personal recovery record; it is a different product and is excluded from this comparison.
Recovery House HQ vs. Sober Living App
| Buyer decision | Recovery House HQ | Sober Living App by Behave Health | What to ask each vendor to demonstrate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. GeofencingLocation and check-in evidence | Recovery House HQ's public guided demo presents house geofences, automatic arrival/departure records, curfew context, and meeting attendance. Treat the demo as the published workflow; confirm permissions, accuracy, exceptions, and the production device path before relying on it. | The official mobile-access page says the product is browser-based and specifically says not to rely on device-location functions. A geofenced resident meeting/check-in workflow was not found in the public materials reviewed on August 12, 2026. | Have a resident leave and re-enter a boundary, attend a meeting, deny location permission, and lose connectivity. Ask what is verified, what is merely recorded, and how staff correct exceptions. |
| 2. Resident appDaily resident use | The public resident-app page links the current Google Play listing and describes account setup and location permission. The guided demo presents announcements, schedules, requests, rent payment, and meeting activity. These published flows do not by themselves establish adoption or reliability. | Official materials document a resident portal and browser access on phones and tablets. The mobile page says no separate installable app is included. Public materials describe portal access for payments, forms, tasks, announcements, and resident access; confirm exactly which resident workflows and modules are enabled in a proposed account. | Ask a resident to sign in, view the day, submit a question or request, record meeting activity, and make a payment on the actual phone they will use. |
| 3. Business financeCharges, collections, and visibility | The public product page documents charges, payments, overdue balances, receipts, and account financial history. Recovery House HQ describes this as operating visibility, not a replacement for full bookkeeping or tax accounting. | The official billing page documents invoices, resident balances, family or sponsor payments, reminders, payment status, ledger history, and accounting exports. Pricing is custom by beds, houses, users, and enabled workflows. The public materials do not establish that it is a complete general-ledger accounting system. | Create a charge, collect a partial or failed payment, issue a receipt, correct an error, export the history, and identify what still belongs in the accounting system. |
| 4. MaintenanceIssue through completion | The public product page includes maintenance in the connected owner/manager operating view. Ask Recovery House HQ to demonstrate resident reporting, staff assignment, status changes, history, photos, and owner review rather than assuming every step from the category label. | The official properties page documents maintenance work orders, vendor assignment, tracking, completion verification, and preventive maintenance scheduling. Its task page documents assignment and tracking for staff and residents. Confirm which maintenance actions residents can initiate and how they behave on a phone. | Submit a real-looking issue, attach evidence, assign it, change status, complete it, reopen it, and retrieve its history from the owner's phone. |
Evidence boundary: Daniel and the first operating house have helped shape Recovery House HQ's workflow. That is founder/operator observation, not an independent market study or proof that one implementation is better. Presence, implementation quality, and fit are three different questions.
Company commitment: Recovery House HQ has made a future, conditional commitment to dedicate 10% of net profits to helping lower the financial barrier to recovery housing after the company reaches 100 active houses and becomes profitable. Read the exact commitment and its limits. This commitment is part of the company decision, not evidence that one software workflow is technically better.
Keep the broader shortlist in view
| Platform | Public category focus | Publicly emphasized workflows | Reason to evaluate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recovery House HQ Publisher of this comparison | Recovery-residence operations | Residents, rent, drug-test records, passes, maintenance, staff work, reporting, guided setup | A connected operating view, flat public pricing, and founder-led implementation. |
| Sobriety Hub | Sober living management | Resident management, property operations, payments, forms, resident app, permissions | A recovery-specific platform with a resident-app workflow to evaluate. |
| Oathtrack | Sober-home management | Residents, payments, communication, documentation, accountability, mobile tools, outcomes | A platform whose public materials emphasize accountability and payment workflows. |
| Sober Living App by Behave Health | Recovery-housing management | Admissions, billing, resident records, forms, drug-test records, browser portals, reporting, property workflows | Configurable housing workflows and separately enabled modules. |
| Recovery House Software | Recovery-house program management | Finances, sign-in/out, randomized testing, reporting, forms, QuickBooks export | Public pricing and a browser-based system developed through recovery-program use. |
Use the same test in every demo
Price the transition
Include imports, setup, training, payment fees, houses, support, renewal, and the staff time needed to change systems.
Write down the boundary
Confirm permissions, device behavior, exports, accounting boundaries, support, and configuration in the proposal or agreement.
Why Recovery House HQ may fit
Recovery House HQ connects ordinary house operations and pairs the software with a managed launch. It is currently learning through its first operating-house implementation. That is meaningful product-development evidence, but it is not yet proof of broad customer outcomes. The best next step is to run the same four scenarios in Recovery House HQ and every serious alternative.