What each kind of quit app is actually for
Searching for a way out of sports betting turns up a dozen apps that look interchangeable and are not. They fall into four shapes, and the shapes solve different problems. Picking the wrong shape is why people bounce off the first three things they try.
Updated October 13, 2026
Apps that help people stop sports betting come in four shapes. Blockers cut off access to sportsbooks at the device or network level. Streak trackers count days since the last bet and make progress visible. Peer and coaching apps put a person or a community on the other end during an urge. Substitution products keep the ritual of reading a game and taking a side while removing money from it. Bankroll, Betless, Betttr, Bye Bet and QuitGamb are, by their own store descriptions, combinations of the first three. Ledger is the fourth: a free prediction desk with a virtual currency that cannot be bought or cashed out. If sport itself is your trigger, use a blocker, not a substitution product. If you have a gambling disorder, the tool that matters most is clinical help, and every app here is a supplement to it rather than a replacement.
Why the shelf got crowded
Legal sports betting put a sportsbook on the phone, and a shelf of apps grew up to help people step away from it. This page maps that shelf. No page on Ledger shows a player count, and nothing on this page is a claim about us.
The four shapes
Blockers. They stop the sportsbook from opening: app blocking, DNS filtering, and enrollment in state self-exclusion programs. This is the bluntest tool and the most effective one at the moment of an urge, because it removes the option rather than asking you to resist it. The cost is that it is all or nothing by design.
Streak trackers. They count days since the last bet and show money not wagered. They make an invisible improvement visible, which matters when the reward for not betting is nothing happening. The risk is the one every streak has: a single slip can read as total failure and end the attempt entirely.
Peer and coaching apps. They put a person, a group thread, or a trained responder on the other end at the hour it is hardest. For a lot of people this is the part that actually works, because an urge at midnight is a social problem before it is a technical one.
Substitution desks. They keep reading a game, taking a side, and being graded by reality, and remove the money. This is the shape with the fewest products in it and the one Ledger is.
Where each one fits
By their own App Store and Google Play descriptions, Bankroll, Betless, Betttr, Bye Bet and QuitGamb are built around blocking, streaks, urge support, or some mix of the three. We have not tested them and we are not ranking them. What is worth saying plainly is that they and Ledger are aimed at different people, and being confused for each other helps nobody.
Use a blocker if opening a sportsbook is a live risk, if you have self-excluded, or if watching a game at all pulls you toward a bet. In that situation a free prediction game is not a safe halfway house, it is a line on a screen, and a line on a screen is the thing you are avoiding.
Use a substitution desk if you stopped or want to stop because of the money, you still watch every week, and the thing you actually miss is having a call on the game and a record of having made it.
Many people need more than one of these at once, and the tools are not in competition. A blocker on the phone and a free desk for Sunday is a coherent setup.
What to check before you trust any of them
Three questions separate a harm-reduction product from a sportsbook wearing one as a costume.
Can the currency be bought? If there is any path from a card to the balance, it is a book. Float cannot be purchased, sold, deposited, or withdrawn, and there is no second wallet.
Does it pay out? If correct calls convert to cash, prizes, or anything redeemable, the incentive that caused the harm is still in the room. Standing is a record. It buys nothing.
What does it do when you leave? A product that sends a push to protect a streak has made not playing expensive. Ledger logs a rest day as a win, holds Standing while you are gone, and does not run countdowns or expiring offers.
If it has stopped being a choice
No app on this shelf, ours included, treats a gambling disorder. It is a recognized condition and it responds to treatment. Free, confidential help is available 24 hours a day: call or text 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537), or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat. The helpline also supports family members, and you can call about someone else.