Comparison

Bear Focus Timer vs Focus Noodles

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Face-down focus mode
  • Pomodoro focus and break cycles
  • White noise sounds
  • Customizable durations
  • Praise cards
  • Apple Watch support
Features
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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

About

Focus Noodles

This app helps you stay focused on tasks by using a fun timer that penalizes phone usage. Earn rewards and enjoy fairytale cards after successful focus sessions. It aims to combat phone addiction and boost productivity.

Highlights
  • Phone screen down timer
  • Distraction alerts (vibrate, flash, noise)
  • Reward system for focus sessions
  • Fairytale cards for relaxation
  • Combats phone addiction
  • HealthKit integration
Features
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"Focus Noodles" is a creative focus app. 2022 Apple Design Award finalist. Focus is the key to a perfect bowl of noodles. Place your phone screen down and start the timer. Focus on the task at hand and resist the temptation to touch your phone, or it will vibrate, flash, and make noises to remind you to put it down! When the timer goes off, your noodles will be perfectly cooked, and you will have accomplished a meaningful focus session. As a reward, you'll receive a "mind-expanding" fairytale card to relieve the tension after your focused session and prepare you for the next one. Your phone is like a Pandora's Box that once opened, can be difficult to close. You never know which tap will steal your attention next. Focus Noodles hopes to help you put down your phone in a humorous and enjoyable way, to fight phone addiction, and to regain the most valuable resource of our time. Where there is focus, there is productivity. Join us now and focus on cooking a bowl of noodles with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide! App credentials: · Apple Design Awards 2022 Finalist. · "Best of March 2020 " in China. · AppStore Editors‘ Choice. (HealthKit integration available to sync focus time to "Mindfulness Training") ideaTiny creates fun apps. fb@ideatiny.com

Screenshots

Bear Focus Timer4 screens
Focus Noodles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bear Focus Timer at none against Focus Noodles's 1. Bear Focus Timer also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and price ($2.99 vs $3.99). Focus Noodles's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (80% vs 70%). On ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Bear Focus Timer costs $2.99 and Focus Noodles $3.99 up front. Focus Noodles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bear Focus Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focus Noodles holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 155 and 205 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Bear Focus Timer's written reviews are positive against 80% of Focus Noodles's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bear Focus Timer ships an update fortnightly, Focus Noodles every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Bear Focus Timer versus Focus Noodles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBear Focus TimerFocus Noodles
Price$2.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.3 (155 ratings)4.7 (205 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.3% of reviews79.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings155205 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB201 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEUIHYUNG JUNGideaTiny Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Bear Focus Timer

All ratings155 ratings
Positive83.2%
Neutral5.8%
Negative11.0%
Written reviews407 reviews
Positive70.3%
Neutral13.8%
Negative16.0%

Focus Noodles

All ratings205 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive79.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative9.3%

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

Focus Noodles

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Bear Focus Timer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Focus Noodles

One-time1
  • Story Cards$0.99

Questions

Is Bear Focus Timer free?
Bear Focus Timer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Focus Noodles free?
Focus Noodles costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bear Focus Timer or Focus Noodles?
Focus Noodles is rated higher. Bear Focus Timer averages 4.3 out of 5 from 155 ratings, while Focus Noodles averages 4.7 from 205 ratings.
Do Bear Focus Timer or Focus Noodles have ads?
Neither Bear Focus Timer nor Focus Noodles shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bear Focus Timer or Focus Noodles?
Bear Focus Timer ships an update fortnightly, and Focus Noodles every 2 months. Most recently, Bear Focus Timer was updated on September 23, 2026 and Focus Noodles on September 23, 2026.

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