The Long View: Quit Smoking
See the years you win back
Free · In‑App Purchases
Most quit smoking apps count days up from zero. This one counts the years smoking has cost you, and how many come back as you stay stopped. Free, no account, no ads.
The Long View makes quitting something you can see: the time you are winning back, worked out from your own habit and your own history.
Tell it roughly how much you smoke, and it shows the years that habit is quietly costing you, and how many come back as you stop. Every day you log updates the picture, and the more you cut down and the longer you go, the more time you have won back.
WHY THE LONG VIEW
- See the time you are winning back, growing as you cut down and quit.
- A forecast shaped by your own smoking history, so the time is yours, not a one-size number.
- Daily check-ins that take one tap.
- Health milestones, showing what your body recovers the longer you stay smoke-free.
- Keep a photo of your reason, the person or promise you are quitting for, where you will see it.
HONEST BY DESIGN
- It is not medical advice. It is a motivational estimate.
- It will not shame you. A day you smoked is a number you log, not a verdict.
- The figures come from published research, and the full methodology is in the app and on our site, so you can check where every number comes from.
YOUR PRIVACY
Your history and your photo are yours. When they sync between your devices, they are sealed with a key made on your device that never reaches our servers, so what we store is unreadable to us. No advertising, no trackers, no selling your data.
PREMIUM
Premium adds money saved from your own price per pack, a personal quit plan, the full recovery timeline, and sync across all your devices: phone, tablet, watch, Mac and PC. Sign in once with your email and your Premium follows you everywhere, with no code to lose. It also unlocks widgets, the Watch app, full history and export. The forecast and your daily check-ins are always free.
And it is built to be finished. Stay smoke-free for a year and you are done: you keep everything for good, and you stop paying. If you are still paying us in two years, we did something wrong.
more Bug fixes and small improvements.
21.2 4h ago
Bug fixes and small improvements.
21.1 2d ago
An app lock. Settings can now put the app behind Face ID, Touch ID or your device passcode, so your
check-ins and your photo stay off the screen if someone else picks up your phone. Widgets and the
Watch complication hide their numbers too.
Today's card now opens on your plan's number instead of your old usual, and the plan card no longer
reports a day you have not logged yet.
On a Mac the widget keeps its picture instead of losing it to the desktop.
20.9 4d ago
The widget. Until now nothing in the app told you it existed, so almost nobody had one. Onboarding
now ends on a picture of it sitting where it goes, on your home screen, or in Notification Center on
a Mac, with your number, your photo and your reason on it.
The opening screen reads more plainly, and asks its questions a little lower down.
20.8 Aug 24
The Watch app no longer runs out of room at the largest text sizes. With text set to Large or
Larger, a long reason could push the time you have won back off the bottom of the screen, and on the
smallest watches it did. Your reason is now kept to two lines so the number always has room.
20.7 Aug 22
Your reason now goes where your number goes. The words you wrote for why you are quitting sit with your photo on the home-screen widget and on the Watch, not just inside the app, so the reason is there every time you glance at what you have won back.
20.6 Aug 21
A calmer, more considered look. Your reason photo now fills the whole hero, with the time you've won back set over it and your reason resting at the foot of the same picture, so the why and the how-much sit together. The numbers and titles across the app are set in a new editorial typeface, the cards are softer, and there's more room to breathe. Same app, redrawn.
20.5 Aug 20
Your reason for quitting now sits behind your number on the home-screen widget and the Watch, not just the Today screen. And the time you have won back now runs to the minute, so you can watch it climb rather than wait a whole day for it to move.
20.4 Aug 19
You can now set the text size for the whole app from Settings. It carries through to your widgets and the Watch app, so the numbers are as easy to read as you want them. The caption on your reason photo is also easier to tap when you want to change it.
20.3 Aug 18
Small refinements and behind-the-scenes improvements to keep The Long View running smoothly.
20.2 Aug 14
Sign in with your email to unlock Premium on every device you use, with no code to lose.
New in this version:
- Put your reason photo behind the time you're winning back, and add your own words for why.
- Health milestones: watch your body recover as the smoke-free days add up.
- A shareable card for your progress.
- Export your day-by-day history as a spreadsheet, or a full backup.
Plus polish across the app.
20.1 Aug 13
A complete rebuild. The Long View is now a quit smoking app: it estimates what smoking has cost you in years, and how much comes back as you stay quit.
There are no accounts and no sign-up. Without a subscription, nothing you log ever leaves your device. With one, your check-ins sync between your devices, encrypted on your device first with a key we never see.
20.0 Aug 11
You asked, and it’s finally here: In App purchases are available so you can now support our work with a donation. Thank you for your continued help and support and we can’t wait for you to see whats is coming next!
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
3.0 12/23/2021
Add more functionality including “Social Media Usage”, squashed some bugs, and improved your experience.
Full disclosure: The Long View is a revolutionary, just released app. We are constantly adding new features- often daily. Please ensure you have automatic updates set to “on” so that you get new features as they’re released. Cheers!
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
2.6 10/08/2021
Add more Health History options, improved “Share With A Friend,” squashed some bugs and improved your experience.
Full disclosure: The Long View is a revolutionary, just released app. We are constantly adding new features- often daily. Please ensure you have automatic updates set to “on” so that you get new features as they’re released. Cheers!
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
2.5 10/06/2021
Added the “Share With A Friend” function, squashed some bugs and improved your experience.
Full disclosure: The Long View is a revolutionary, just released app. We are constantly adding new features- often daily. Please ensure you have automatic updates set to “on” so that you get new features as they’re released. Cheers!
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
2.4 10/05/2021
Added the Health History section and Stress to the Vitality Inputs section, squashed some bugs and improved your experience.
Full disclosure: The Long View is a revolutionary, just released app. We are constantly adding new features- often daily. Please ensure you have automatic updates set to “on” so that you get new features as they’re released. Cheers!
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
2.3 09/29/2021
Squashed some bugs and improved your experience.
Full disclosure: The Long View is a revolutionary, just released app. We are constantly adding new features- often daily. Please ensure you have automatic updates set to “on” so that you get new features as they’re released. Cheers!
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
2.2.1 09/28/2021
Added the 5-day summary feature, squashed some bugs, and made the app better for you.
Full disclosure: The Long view is a revolutionary, just released app. We are adding new features as quickly as possible - often daily - to constantly make it better for you. Please ensure your App Store setting have automatic updates set to “on” so that you get the news features as they’re released. Cheers!
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
2.2 09/24/2021
Squashed some bugs and made the app better for you.
Full disclosure: The Long view is a revolutionary, just released app. We are adding new features as quickly as possible - often daily - to constantly make it better for you. Please ensure your App Store setting have automatic updates set to “on” so that you get the news features as they’re released. Cheers!
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
v2.1 09/21/2021
Added the new “Trends” functionality, future proofed the back end a bit, bug fixes, and generally made the app better for you to use.
Disclaimer: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
2.0 09/20/2021
Squashed some bugs and made the app better for you to use.
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
The Long View v1.2 09/08/2021
Squashed some bugs and made the app better for you to use.
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
1.1.3 09/07/2021
Squashed some bugs and made the app better for you.
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
1.1.2 09/02/2021
New capabilities added. Plus we squashed some bugs, improved usability, and cleaned up a few things on the back end.
Disclaimers: Always consult with a healthcare professional before starting any new vitamins, supplements, diet, or exercise program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have health problems.
1.1 08/31/2021
Bug fixes and small improvements.
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