Bear Focus Timer vs iPRINT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bear Focus Timer
This app helps you stay focused by using a unique face-down timer. It incorporates forest-style white noise to enhance concentration and rewards you with praise cards upon completion of focus sessions. Customize your work and break times for optimal productivity.
- Face-down focus mode
- Pomodoro focus and break cycles
- White noise sounds
- Customizable durations
- Praise cards
- Apple Watch support
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Turn your phone over. Leave the screen behind. Focus with Tom. Bear Focus Timer is a simple Pomodoro timer for work, study, reading, writing, and everyday tasks. Choose a session, place your iPhone face down, and let Tom the bear keep you company while the timer runs. When focus time ends, take a break and receive an illustrated praise card. FLIP TO FOCUS • Choose your focus time and place your iPhone face down to begin • Keep the screen out of sight while you work or study • Build a small physical ritual around starting a focused session CUSTOM POMODORO CYCLES • Alternate focus sessions with breaks • Adjust focus and break durations • Choose a rhythm that fits the task in front of you FOREST-STYLE WHITE NOISE Add an optional nature-inspired background sound to your session. The calm audio and hand-drawn black-and-white design create a simple setting for time spent on one task. TOM AND PRAISE CARDS Tom is friendly, but he notices when it is time to concentrate. Complete a session to receive an illustrated praise card, then save a favorite card to Photos. Praise cards are available in English, Korean, and Japanese. APPLE WATCH SUPPORT Use the Apple Watch version when you want focus and break timing on your wrist. Available alerts and session behavior can vary according to your device and operating system settings. USE IT FOR • Study sessions and exam preparation • Reading, writing, and creative work • Work sprints and personal projects • Chores or any task that benefits from a defined focus period and break Bear Focus Timer keeps the experience straightforward: set your time, turn the phone over, focus, and take a break with Tom. Support: BearFocusTimer@gmail.com
iPRINT
This app allows you to print text documents and PDFs directly from your iPhone or iPad. It offers advanced editing features, supports various Japanese printing styles, and can output high-quality PDFs. You can also print at convenience stores nationwide.
- Text printing and PDF output
- Advanced text editor
- Supports vertical writing and ruby display
- Customizable paper layouts
- AirPrint and convenience store printing
- E-book viewer
- Save up to 500 text files
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iPRINT is the text printing / PDF output / viewer / editor application for iPhone / iPad. iPRINT customized iText Pad, which has been popular as iOS advanced text editor, for printing on printer paper. iPRINT have specialized iText Pad's functions, such as vertical writing and the original paper layout "Aozora Bunko" style ruby display, for displaying printed images on printer paper. On the iPhone / iPad screen, you can print on a printer paper with one touch, while checking the print image of vertically written original paper etc, easy operation enables you to print various layouts. For printing on a printer, easy printing using AirPrint of iOS printing function. And high-quality PDF file of printing image, you can use advanced printing by printer manufacturer's printing application. Even if you do not have a printer, it is also compatible with Convenience-Print that can be printed at convenience stores nationwide (Japanese only). Also, iPRINT can be used not only as text printing, but also as a viewer that allows you to browse e-books with print images, or as text editor to enter text while checking sentences with print images. We sincerely hope iPRINT will serve you well, being a good friend for your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. With iPRINT, enjoy printing flexibly anytime, anywhere! iPRINT Features * Text printing / PDF output / viewer / editor application. * It supports printing of japanese manuscript paper. * It supports vertical writing. * It corresponds to ruby printing. * You can customize the paper to be printed by settings. * A variety of print layouts can be selected. * Output high-quality PDF file. * Easy printing using AirPrint of iOS printing function is supported. * Cooperate with printer-specific application of printer manufacturer. * It corresponds to Convenience-Print which can be printed at convenience store. * You can view the text of the e-book with the print image. * Text can be entered while checking sentences with print image. * You can open a text file of another application. * Up to 500 text files can be saved. * The display size can be increased to 500%. * It corresponds to the operation when the iPhone is set horizontally. * The number of characters can be counted. * "iWriters" can be used for text input of iPRINT.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bear Focus Timer at 4.3 against iPRINT's 1.0. Bear Focus Timer also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 35 months). iPRINT's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Bear Focus Timer costs $2.99 and iPRINT $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bear Focus Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bear Focus Timer has 155 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Bear Focus Timer's written reviews are positive against 50% of iPRINT's.
Bear Focus Timer ships an update fortnightly, iPRINT every 35 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bear Focus Timer | iPRINT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (155 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 155 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 35 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EUIHYUNG JUNG | LIGHT,WAY. |
Customer experience
Bear Focus Timer
iPRINT
Bugs and requests
Bear Focus Timer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timer not starting reliably when phone is flipped
- Settings menu not functioning properly after updates
- Compatibility issues on certain devices/iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Option to start/stop timer without flipping phone
- Ability to customize white noise/background sounds
- Sync and history tracking across devices
- Notifications/alerts for break time ending
- Detailed usage statistics and progress tracking
iPRINT
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bear Focus Timer
No in-app purchases
iPRINT
No in-app purchases









