File Viewer vs Bear Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
File Viewer
Easily open and view over 100 different file types, including documents, images, videos, and archives. Browse files stored on your device or in iCloud Drive. This app also identifies unknown files and displays detailed file information.
- Open 100+ file types
- Browse device and iCloud Drive
- Built-in readers for Office, PDF, and images
- Extract compressed archives
- Identify unknown files
- View file information and metadata
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File Viewer is an easy-to-use file viewer opens over 100 file types, including PDFs, Office documents, images, videos, audio, and compressed archives. Browse and view files on your device or iCloud Drive with ease. Key Features - Open 100+ file types with a single app - Browse files on your device and iCloud Drive - Bookmark favorite locations including iCloud and device storage - View documents with the built-in DOCX reader, DOC reader, PDF viewer, PPTX viewer, PPT viewer, and CSV viewer - Extract compressed archives with the Zip file extractor and Tar Gzip extractor - Identify unknown files with the built-in file identification technology - Show file information including properties and hidden metadata Supported File Types - Documents: PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, PAGES - Spreadsheets: XLS, XLSX, NUMBERS - Presentations: PPT, PPTX, PPSX, KEY - Images: JPEG, PNG, AVIF, JXL, HEIC, PSD, SVG - Videos: MP4, MOV, AVI, 3G2, M4V - Audio: M4A, MP3, WAV, AIF, AC3 - Archives: ZIP, GZ, TAR, TGZ - Camera Raw: ARW, CR2, CR3, DNG, NEF - Source Code & Web: HTML, C++, Java, Python, JSON, XML - And many more! File Viewer is brought to you by https://fileinfo.com - a trusted source for file format information.
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.
- Bill tracking (income/expenses)
- Dice rolling (up to 200 sides)
- Note taking
- Calendar view for bills and notes
- At-a-glance summary dashboard
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bear Tools at 5.0 against File Viewer's 3.4. Bear Tools also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bear Tools holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.
File Viewer ships an update every 6 months, Bear Tools every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | File Viewer | Bear Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sharpened Productions | Robert Thomas JR |
Customer experience
File Viewer
Bear Tools
In-app purchases
File Viewer
No in-app purchases
Bear Tools
No in-app purchases
