Use a finder that states its coverage
AA meeting data is published by local service entities, not by one national feed. 12steps uses Recovery Meeting Finder's monthly public data dump for physical AA meetings across Great Britain and Ireland, then supplements it with London online meetings from AA London. This is a broad third-party directory, not a fellowship-owned or real-time feed.
The public finder on 12steps does not need an account. You can search by town or postcode, filter by day, time and format, and open today’s or online views. Distance, when you ask for it, is worked out on your device. The app does not track you in the background or send a precise device location to the 12steps API.
When to open Meeting Guide or AA Great Britain instead
Meeting Guide and AA Great Britain remain important checks because they draw from fellowship sources. Use more than one list when you are travelling or when a meeting detail looks uncertain. Monthly data can lag behind a venue or time change, so check the linked source before travelling and phone the venue when practical.
12steps is independent of AA, Recovery Meeting Finder and Meeting Guide. It does not replace a home group, a secretary, or the local phone line. An empty result is not proof that no meeting exists.
Pair the listing with the rest of the day’s programme
A meeting finder gets you through the door. The rest of a 12-step day often still needs a place for a short inventory, a gratitude list, or notes you might take to a sponsor. 12steps keeps those tools on the same account as the AA listings, with NA and CA in the same search. That is the reason to use it if you already write as well as attend.
Personal content is encrypted on the device before it syncs. Standard mode allows an email password reset. Private mode keeps the key on your device, so we cannot read the writing. Meeting listings themselves are public information. Do not paste other people’s names or phone numbers into a journal entry unless you mean to keep that record.