HeyBear! vs Pee Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HeyBear!
Enhance your safety in bear country with this app that alerts bears to your presence. It offers various sounds and voices to help you avoid surprising wildlife. Works with phone speakers or external Bluetooth devices for increased volume and battery efficiency.
- Alerts bears to your presence
- Multiple voice and sound options
- Customizable sound sequences
- Use with phone or Bluetooth speaker
- Increases perceived group size
- Helps avoid surprising wildlife
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A bear safety app for your phone, alerts bears of your presence. Increase your safety when traveling in bear country. This phone app helps you be heard by bears, so you don't make the mistake of surprising them. HeyBear! works well with Bluetooth external speakers, like the ION Clipster Active. “Hey bear! Here we come! Hey bear!” My wife, friends and I have been calling out these words for decades while hiking in bear country in Alaska. As the bear safety saying goes: “Make noise when traveling in bear country”. Sudden encounters with bears, that’ don’t hear you coming, can be dangerous. The HeyBear! phone app helps alert bears of your presence. The app can be used with the phone’s speaker or paired with a Bluetooth external speaker for more volume and better phone battery life. The ION Clipster Active is such an external speaker that works well with the HeyBear! phone app. HeyBear! provides a number of progressively assertive voices and sounds: bear bells, female voice, male voice, whistle, alarm and siren. There are four audio clips for each of these sound categories and they can be played sequentially or randomly. Multiple categories can be selected, so you can customize a variety of sounds. Of course, you can make your own noise when traveling in bear country. But by pairing your voice with this phone app, it will sound to a bear like more people are approaching. This will increase the safety factor. Plus, if travelers are unfamiliar with what sounds to make when in bear country, this app can do the job for them. My companions and I have seen many bears over the decades of recreating in the backcountry of Alaska. But we have never had a bear charge us. Most likely this is because we have let the bears hear us before they see us. Hopefully the HeyBear! phone app can help make travel in bear country safer for you.
Pee Diary
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An easy way to record voiding data, as an alternative to a paper diary. Keeping a bladder diary is a common recommendation for a wide range of conditions. Convenient export to text file, so you can show it to your therapist. Supports separate records for voiding through catheter and urethra, as well as with urinary bag, which can be helpful for tracking bladder training. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pee Diary at Free against HeyBear!'s $1.99. Pee Diary also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). HeyBear!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.2). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Pee Diary is free to download; HeyBear! costs $1.99 up front. Pee Diary sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. HeyBear! asks for nothing beyond the download.
HeyBear! ships an update every 5 months, Pee Diary every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HeyBear! | Pee Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Timothy Kelley | Veniamin Gribkov |
In-app purchases
HeyBear!
No in-app purchases
Pee Diary
- Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
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