Green Bay man created SobrietyMe app to help others stay clean and sober

Despite having no experience building an app, Janz was able to create “SobrietyMe.” The free app not only tracks a person’s sobriety, it includes daily motivation and encouragement, recommends treatment facilities and recovery organizations.

Janz created it to be more exciting.

“The coin animation, this is my absolute favorite,” he said. “It was always like a really cool accomplishment when you go to a meeting and you get a coin. It always felt really good to have that coin. To have the coin pop up when someone hits 24 hours sober, a month sober, a year, have that coin pop up, do a little animation.”

Janz in no way is a doctor, nurse, counselor or any type of medical professional and he does not claim to be on the app. He simply created “SobrietyMe” as another tool for those in recovery.

“My biggest thing is if it just helps that one person get to rehab or if it just helps that one person get to detox or if it just saves one person’s life. That’s all I need. That’s all I wanted to do,” he added.

In the month or so since he’s launched the app, Janz said it’s been downloaded almost 3,000.

“Sobriety Me” is available for Apple and Android phones and it’s free to download.