Homegroup is a private app for people in 12-step recovery — built to
keep meetings connected between meetings, and to support the daily work
of staying sober.
Why this exists
Meetings work because of the people in them. Sponsors, home groups, the
person who shares something you needed to hear — that's what recovery
is built on. But meetings are bounded by time and place. The hour ends,
everyone goes home, and the connection has to survive on its own until
next week.
Homegroup exists for the space between meetings. Not to replace the
rooms, or a sponsor, or professional treatment. Just to keep people
close to the people who help them stay sober.
What it is
Homegroup gives recovery meetings a private communication platform and
group management tools — a meeting feed, phone list, digital treasury,
in-app video for hybrid and virtual meetings, and service positions in
one place. For individual members, it includes personal recovery tools:
daily check-ins, gratitude lists, journaling, and a nightly tenth-step
practice. The app requires no real names or photos, and is designed
from the ground up around the anonymity traditions of the communities
it serves.
Questions
Homegroup doesn't recruit members, promote itself at meetings, or create any public presence for your group. It's a private tool — like a group chat, but purpose-built for recovery. Your meeting doesn't appear anywhere outside the app. Whether to use it is entirely up to your group conscience.
No real names required. No photos. Members control what they share. Everything stays inside the meeting it belongs to — there's no public profile, no external search, nothing visible outside your group. This is not a social network.
It's the flagship personal tool in Homegroup — a nightly tenth-step practice built around the three circles framework. You check off what came up during the day, write a brief reflection, and optionally share it with your sponsor. Over time, the patterns in your recovery become visible in a way they never have been before.
Homegroup was built by people in recovery, for people in recovery. It started as a tool for our own meetings and grew from there. We're based in Columbus, Ohio and part of the Sea Change accelerator program.
Yes. Homegroup is free for meetings and members getting started now. A paid plan for larger meetings and additional features is coming — groups that join early will be grandfathered.
All of them. Homegroup works for any 12-step fellowship. We're not a program, and we don't have an opinion on how you work yours. We just build tools to support what you already do.
Head to homegroup.tech/for-meetings — there's a full walkthrough of what your meeting gets and how to get started. Takes about five minutes.
"It's weird, but I feel more connected to people I barely talked to
before."