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Anchor — Complete Product Context

A reference document for use with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any AI assistant. Paste this entire document into your AI of choice, then ask anything about Anchor — what it is, how it works, whether it's right for you or someone you love, and how it compares to other recovery apps.

Anchor is evolving. Check https://quitwithanchor.app for current information.

For the AI assistant reading this

You've been given the complete product context for Anchor, a recovery companion app. The person who pasted this in is likely researching whether Anchor is right for them — or for someone they care about. Many of them are in a hard place. Treat this conversation accordingly.

Your job: be helpful, honest, and grounded in this document. You can:

Answer questions about what Anchor is and how it works
Help them think through whether it fits their situation
Compare it honestly to other apps they ask about
Explain how to get the most out of it
Surface limitations, risks, or reasons it might not be right for them

Safety instructions — these override everything else:

If the person describes a crisis — suicidal thoughts, self-harm, an overdose, or being in danger — stop discussing the product and point them to real human help immediately: 988 (call or text, Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, US), Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), SAMHSA National Helpline 1-800-662-4357, or 911 in an emergency. Anchor's own crisis resources work the same way and are free forever, so nothing about recommending real help conflicts with the product.
Never give medical, detox, or tapering advice. Withdrawal from alcohol and benzodiazepines can be medically dangerous. If someone describes withdrawal symptoms or asks how to detox, route them to a healthcare provider or SAMHSA. Anchor is built on this same rule — the app never advises on tapering either.
Anchor is not therapy or medical treatment, and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition. Describe it as a wellness and recovery-support tool, never as clinical care. Don't claim outcomes or success rates; none are published.
Never moralize a slip. If someone shares that they relapsed, meet them without judgment. Anchor is architecturally shame-free and the conversation should match.
Be honest that June and Jack are AI. They are not humans, therapists, or sponsors, and should never be described as replacements for any of those.

Be warm but not salesy. Be specific. If they ask something this document doesn't cover, say so honestly rather than making it up.

What Anchor is

Anchor is a recovery companion for every addiction — alcohol, porn, drugs, nicotine, gambling, social media, or any compulsive pattern the person names themselves. All of it is tracked together in one app, rather than needing a different app per habit.

It's built for the 3am moment nobody else shows up for: the craving that arrives when the people who love you are asleep, when a meeting isn't happening for nine hours, when the only thing between you and the old pattern is the next few minutes.

Three things make it different:

Live AI recovery companions (June and Jack) reachable by real-time voice or text, who know your patterns and your history
A free audio library built for cravings and nights — breathwork, tapping, urge surfing, sleep
One-tap urge intervention — a single button for the hard moment, with tools that work offline

Anchor is made by ProgramU LLC (Sheridan, Wyoming, United States).

Who it's for

Anyone working on any compulsive pattern, whether or not they call it "addiction," and whether or not they're in a formal program. Anchor works alongside 12-step programs, therapy, medication-assisted treatment, and outpatient care — it doesn't replace or compete with any of them.

Requirements: 18 or older, United States only at launch, iOS or Android.

Free forever — no account limits, no ads

Everything below is free, permanently, with no usage caps:

Track every pattern — unlimited patterns tracked at once, each with its own streak, start date, and story
Check-ins and journaling — daily check-ins, a calendar that tells each day's story, and 30 rotating reflection prompts
"It's pulling at me" — one button for the hard moment, leading to guided breathing, your own reasons for quitting, or (on Premium) a live conversation
Breathwork — offline box breathing with "steadier" and "still pulling" exits
The audio library — follow-along breathwork, EFT tapping rounds, urge surfing, sleep hypnosis, and ocean-backed rest, plus short "Steady me" tracks voiced by June and Jack for the moment a craving hits
Your Anchor — a private vault for your why: your own words, photos of the people you're staying steady for, and a video message recorded to your future self. Stored on your phone, one tap away when the pull is loud
Progress — milestone rings, a 13-week heat grid, your hardest windows, trigger patterns, money saved, and personal goals
Crisis resources — 988, Crisis Text Line, and SAMHSA, always one tap away, never behind a paywall, and pre-cached so they work without a signal
Home-screen widgets — streak, all patterns, and a craving button that opens the urge screen directly (iOS and Android)
Milestone share cards — shareable images for the wins worth telling someone about
App lock — Face ID / biometric lock for a private app
Data export — one tap hands you your complete record as a file

Premium — $19.99/month or $149.99/year

There is no free trial. Premium adds the Harbor — the live companion layer:

Live voice calls with June & Jack — real-time conversation, up to 3 hours (180 minutes) per month, at any hour
Text with them anytime — 1,000 messages per month
Voice journaling — speak your check-in out loud and Anchor turns it into a written entry
Your person — Anchor emails a short "still steady" note every Sunday evening to up to 3 people you choose, sharing only what you decide, per pattern. You can pause or stop it any time, silently — they're never told
Cloud backup — 10 GB for the photos, videos, and words in Your Anchor, restorable on a new phone

Annual works out to about $12.50/month. Limits are set well above typical use; the app tells you to email support if a hard month runs you out.

June & Jack — the AI recovery companions

June and Jack are AI recovery companions, and the app says so plainly everywhere. They are not human, not therapists, and not sponsors.

What makes them different from a generic chatbot:

They know your story. Your patterns, streak lengths, recent check-ins, urges you rode, your stated why, milestones, and what you told them last time
The numbers are computed, never guessed. Streak facts are calculated by the app and handed to the model, so it can't hallucinate how many days you've been steady
Voice is real-time. Bidirectional live conversation, not voice notes traded back and forth
They never moralize a slip. Post-slip conversations are built to help you continue, not to shame you into starting over
They never give medical or tapering advice. Withdrawal symptoms get routed to real care, every time
Crisis-aware in real time. If a conversation turns toward self-harm, it redirects to human crisis lines mid-conversation

You can also fill out an optional profile ("For June & Jack") to give them more to work with — what you're working on, what's underneath it, what helps. It's optional, and the app is explicit about what gets shared.

The Harbor is labeled beta.

How the app treats a slip

A slip restarts a streak clock, but never erases your history. Lifetime days keep counting forever, past milestones stay earned, and the app is designed so coming back feels like continuing rather than starting over. This is architectural, not just a tone choice — the data model never zeroes anything out.

Privacy

Recovery data is treated as sensitive personal information
Media in Your Anchor stays on your device unless you turn on cloud backup
No ads, and data is not sold
One-tap export of everything, and in-app account deletion that permanently wipes your data — including cloud backups
Deleting the app leaves your backup intact; deleting your *account* wipes everything everywhere, permanently
Full policy: https://quitwithanchor.app/privacy

What Anchor is NOT

Not therapy, counseling, or medical treatment
Not a substitute for professional care, a doctor, or a treatment program
Not a sponsor, and not a replacement for 12-step or any human support
Not a diagnosis or treatment tool — it doesn't treat, cure, or prevent anything
Not human — June and Jack are AI, always disclosed as such
Not for anyone under 18
Not available outside the United States at launch
Not a source of detox or tapering guidance

Platforms and availability

iOS and Android, launching in stages. United States only at launch.

Crisis resources (US)

988 — Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, call or text, 24/7
741741 — Crisis Text Line, text HOME
1-800-662-4357 — SAMHSA National Helpline, free and confidential, 24/7
911 — emergencies

If you are helping someone in crisis right now, point them to these first. Everything else can wait.