Comparison

ElegooKit vs Bear Tools

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

Head to head
About

ElegooKit

Control your ELEGOO device using a virtual joystick or customize your own control scheme. This utility app offers a direct interface for managing your compatible hardware.

Highlights
  • Joystick control
  • DIY control customization
  • BLE device management
Features
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In this app, you can control the elegoo device with the joystick, or diy the control that you want.

About

Bear Tools

This app offers a minimalist suite of tools for managing bills, rolling dice, and taking notes. It helps track expenses and schedule reminders on a calendar, useful for both everyday life and tabletop gaming.

Highlights
  • Bill tracking (income/expenses)
  • Dice rolling (up to 200 sides)
  • Note taking
  • Calendar view for bills and notes
  • At-a-glance summary dashboard
Features
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Bear Tools is a minimalistic collection of tools for bills/expenses, dice rolling, notes, and tracking expenses and notes on a calendar. Whether you use it to track a character in a table-top roleplaying game or track expenses and notes in your everyday life, Bear Tools has a tool to help! Features: -Bear Home shows information from other tools at a glance. -Bear Bills lets you enter incoming and outgoing amounts to track a running total, and also assign them to specific calendar dates. -Bear Dice lets you roll dice with up to 200 sides, and track previous rolls. -Bear Notes lets you enter notes and assign them specific dates to track them on the calendar. -Bear Calendar lets you track bills and notes by date in an internal calendar (separate from the system calendar), and stamps a pawprint on any day with a bill or note associated with it.

Screenshots

ElegooKit4 screens
Bear Tools4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bear Tools at 5.0 against ElegooKit's 3.5. ElegooKit's advantage is ratings volume (74 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bear Tools holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ElegooKit has 74 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ElegooKit ships an update monthly, Bear Tools every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ElegooKit versus Bear Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElegooKitBear Tools
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (74 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings74 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer东 陈Robert Thomas JR

Customer experience

ElegooKit

All ratings74 ratings
Positive62.2%
Neutral6.8%
Negative31.1%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive53.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative33.3%

Bear Tools

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ElegooKit

No in-app purchases

None

Bear Tools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ElegooKit free?
ElegooKit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bear Tools free?
Bear Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ElegooKit or Bear Tools?
Bear Tools is rated higher. ElegooKit averages 3.5 out of 5 from 74 ratings, while Bear Tools averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do ElegooKit or Bear Tools have ads?
Neither ElegooKit nor Bear Tools shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ElegooKit or Bear Tools?
ElegooKit ships an update monthly, and Bear Tools every 3 weeks. Most recently, ElegooKit was updated on October 8, 2026 and Bear Tools on October 3, 2026.

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