Apps and online care
Reframe vs Bicycle Health
They differ on 9 of 10 things we check. No winner here: the better one is the one that fits what you need and how you'd pay.
Reframe
You work through short daily lessons on how alcohol and habits affect you, track your drinks, and use tools for cravings and a peer community.
Bicycle Health
You book a video visit with a Bicycle Health clinician, who can prescribe buprenorphine (Suboxone), often the same day, and you keep regular check-ins plus optional coaching and support groups.
Where they differ
- Kind of help
- Reframe: An app I use on my own
- Bicycle Health: A therapist
- Good for
- Reframe: Adults who want to drink less, not necessarily quit; People who like daily lessons and tracking to build a new habit
- Bicycle Health: Adults with opioid use disorder who want to start buprenorphine (Suboxone) quickly by video; People with commercial insurance, Medicaid or Medicare in one of Bicycle's 27 states
- Probably not for
- Reframe: Anyone in crisis: call or text 988
- Bicycle Health: Anyone in crisis or overdose: call 911, or call or text 988
- Cost
- Reframe: $19.99/month or $59.99–$119.99/year
- Bicycle Health: Copay with insurance (most pay under $35/month); $249/month self-pay
- How you pay
- Reframe: I'll pay myself
- Bicycle Health: Insurance
- Where
- Reframe: iPhone, Android
- Bicycle Health: Web
- Research
- Reframe: Not stated
- Bicycle Health: Limited research
- Sells your data
- Reframe: Not stated
- Bicycle Health: No
- HIPAA
- Reframe: Not stated
- Bicycle Health: Yes
The same for both: privacy (grade c).
In crisis or thinking about suicide? In the US, call or text 988. This page is information from our reviews, not medical advice.