You can delete your Sober Book account yourself, from inside the app, at any time. It happens straight away — there is no waiting period and nobody has to approve it.
Sober Book · soberbook.app · last updated 8 September 2026
Go to You → the pencil → 🔑 Account → Delete your account.
You will be asked to type your own handle to confirm. That is deliberate — it is the one action in the app with no undo, and a checkbox is muscle memory by the third tap.
If you have lost your password or can't reach your account, email hello@soberbook.app from the address you signed up with and ask us to delete it. A real person reads that inbox. We will delete the account and reply to confirm.
Nobody can sign in as you afterwards, and your handle is retired rather than released — so an old link to your profile can never later point at a stranger.
Before it runs, you get one choice: whether to also delete the things you posted anonymously.
Those carry no name, and other people may have replied underneath them. Deleting them takes those conversations away from the people still in them, so it is your call and not ours. The default is that everything goes.
If you choose delete everything — the default — nothing is kept. The account row itself is removed.
If you choose to keep your anonymous posts, one thing survives: an empty placeholder that those posts hang from. It holds no name, no email, no sober date, no photo and nothing you wrote about yourself — all of that is erased. It exists only so the anonymous posts you chose to leave behind don't break. Your login and your email address are destroyed in this case too.
Supabase, who host the database, take automatic backups of the whole system. A copy of deleted data can survive in those backups until they expire on their own. We cannot reach into a backup to remove one person, and we never restore one to recover a deleted account.
Questions about any of this: hello@soberbook.app. What we collect in the first place is set out in the privacy policy.