Meeting Guide

This app is a very valuable, reliable and easy to use tool. My Fellows and I encourage every newcomer who comes through the door to get Meeting Guide on the phones from their Day 1 of sobriety. I find this app to be extremely helpful to me when traveling. It gives me not just the time and location of a meeting near me, it also give me directions on how to get there. My daughter, who is a “normie,” also finds great value in using Meeting Guide. She is an attorney working as a Public Defender. When she meets her clients, many, perhaps most, are meeting her when they are at a crossroad; a potential “turning point” in their lives. She is able to use this tool to quickly and accurately send her clients who are in need, through the doors of AA. This is a lifesaver. I feel strongly that every recovering alcoholic and every criminal defense attorney needs to have the Meeting Guide on their phone. This thing works, if you work it! Meeting Guide is an easy-peasy, user-friendly, reliable, effective and free tool ! Thank you to the creators and managers of this app! 🙏

What a wonderful surprise. After moving to a new area, one of the first things I did was research new meeting locations. I was pleasantly surprised to find this AA meeting finder app. What a great way for Alcoholics Anonymous to step into the 21st Century and provide our younger (in heart and in age) members with a easy, fast way to look for up-to-date meeting locations that include Zoom links. With our “new normal” reality of social distancing and spur-of-the-moment changes, it’s of ultimate importance that our community help 12-step members find the information they need. The pandemic has caused a great struggle for many alcoholics by losing the one thing that keeps us spiritually fit - connection with one another. This app makes it easier for members to find ways to keep that connection. Thank you to the developers in helping to facilitate that connection.

I’ve been using this app for a couple years and suggest it to others all the time. I’m disappointed in the location search in the latest version, however. In the current version I get multiple communities in my area — this is great. However — in the previous version, when looking for a meeting in another location and the name of a City, meetings for surrounding cities were included (i.e., an entry for Walnut Creek, CA included meetings in Concord, Pleasant Hill, Pinole, Orinda, and other cities covered by the Service Center for that area). In the latest version 3.0.28, the only hits returned are for the City input, so multiple city searches are required for meetings in surrounding communities. I don’t see a way to expand the search for +10 or 20 miles. This may not be an issue in some areas, but for many of us in multi-City areas it’s not always as easy.