Bear Focus Timer vs DoRepeat
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
DoRepeat
This app helps you manage recurring tasks and routines by creating reusable checklists. You can tick off items without opening the app and set reminders for lists or individual tasks. Sync your lists across devices for seamless management.
- Reusable checklists
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Task and list reminders
- iCloud sync
- Unlimited lists
- Color-coded organization
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Build a checklist once. Check it off. Reset it. Run it again. DoRepeat is the recurring checklist app for morning routines, meeting prep, weekly chores, and anything you repeat. Unlike to-do apps, DoRepeat is built for lists you use over and over – not tasks you check off once. THE CHECKLIST APP FOR ANYTHING YOU DO ON REPEAT Life is full of things we do over and over. Morning routines. Packing for trips. Monthly bills. Meeting prep. Quality checks. That’s where DoRepeat comes in. It’s a checklist app built for the tasks you repeat, because some things are too important to leave to memory (or sticky notes that fall off your monitor). RECURRING LISTS, ZERO HASSLE Create checklists once, use them forever. Morning routine? Saved. Packing list for your weekend getaway? Saved. Monthly team meeting prep? You guessed it – saved. No more recreating the same list every time. Just check off your tasks, hit reset, and you’re ready to go again. CHECK OFF TASKS WITHOUT OPENING THE APP With home screen and lock screen widgets, you can tick off tasks without even opening the app. Because you’re busy and don’t have time for those extra taps. REMINDERS FOR LISTS AND TASKS When you need an extra nudge, you can set a reminder (or two, or ten) for any checklist or task. ICLOUD SYNC Start a checklist on your iPhone and complete it on your iPad. Your lists are everywhere you go. WHAT PEOPLE USE DOREPEAT FOR People rely on DoRepeat for anything from staying consistent with a personal habit to nailing quality control at the job. Here are some more examples: • Morning Routine • Meeting Wrap-Up • Skincare Routine • Workday wrap-up • Evening Wind Down • Monthly Budgeting • Medication Management • Weekly Household Tasks • Workouts • Preparing for Calls • Software Release Checklist • … and many more Manage an unlimited number of lists, organized in beautiful color cards. Edit your lists anytime as your routines may grow or change. You can have multiple checklists in progress at the same time and use your lists for daily, weekly, monthly repeating tasks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DoRepeat at 4.7 against Bear Focus Timer's 4.3. DoRepeat also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 70%). Bear Focus Timer's advantage is ratings volume (155 vs 7) and price ($2.99 vs $5.99). On update cadence, 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 DoRepeat $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
DoRepeat holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bear Focus Timer has 155 ratings behind it against 7, 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 91% of DoRepeat's.
Bear Focus Timer ships an update fortnightly, DoRepeat every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bear Focus Timer | DoRepeat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (155 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.3% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 155 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EUIHYUNG JUNG | Philipp Sackl-O'Neill |
Customer experience
Bear Focus Timer
DoRepeat
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
DoRepeat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bear Focus Timer
No in-app purchases
DoRepeat
No in-app purchases
Questions
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