CanMindful vs Bears Affirmations
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CanMindful
This app offers guided mindful breathing exercises and soothing sounds to help reduce stress, improve sleep, and enhance focus. It features simple, visual sessions and a mood journal to track patterns, making daily self-care accessible for beginners.
- Guided mindful breathing sessions
- Breathwork rhythms
- White noise and gentle sounds
- Mood check-in and journal
- Short sessions for breaks
- Visual guidance for focus
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Calm your mind with mindful breathing. Visual, cute sessions that feel easy to keep. For stress relief, sleep, focus, and daily mindfulness. What you can do - Mindfulness meditation with guided breathing - Breathwork rhythms: inhale, hold, exhale - White noise / gentle sounds for sleep and relaxation - Mood check-in + simple journal to notice patterns - Short sessions for breaks, commuting, or bedtime Why CanMindful - Not a complicated course: start in 1 minute - Not medical therapy: it’s for daily self-care - Not only a timer: visuals guide you to stay focused Great for - People feeling stressed or anxious - Anyone improving sleep quality - Students and busy workers building focus - Beginners who want meditation that feels friendly Try CanMindful and build a calm, steady routine. ------- ## About Apple Health integration: You can enable apple health synchronization in the APP, we will only write mindfulness data to apple health, and will not read your other data, please rest assured to use ## About the CanMindful Pro: CanMindful offers monthly, annual subscription plans and one-time purchase plan. Feedback: canmindful@canapps.space Privacy: https://canmindful.top/privacy Terms of service: https://canmindful.top/terms
Bears Affirmations
Engage with over 70 hand-drawn puzzles designed to inspire happiness and personal growth. Explore themes like love, self-care, healing, and positivity through interactive challenges.
- 70+ hand-drawn puzzles
- Themes of love and self-love
- Puzzles on healing and positivity
- Explores creativity and identity
- Life and work navigation guidance
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Bears Affirmations is a collection of 70+ beautifully hand-drawn puzzles, each with a powerful message about how to build a happy life. The puzzles cover the topics of: …LOVE… Building the courage to love others truly and wholeheartedly …SELF-LOVE… Appreciating the importance of taking care of yourself, so you can take on everything in life …HEALING… How to navigate a broken heart or your broken world, and putting in the work to put it back together again …POSITIVITY… The power of positive thinking to build a life that feels kind to you day in day out …CREATIVITY… How to nurture the ability to express yourself and everything in your imagination …IDENTITY… Understanding that there’s no one else on earth quite like you, and how to protect what makes you unique …LIFE… Exploring what makes life messy and complicated, and how to navigate it safely …WORK… The power of loving the work you do, and how it can empower you to live meaningfully
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bears Affirmations at 4.9 against CanMindful's 4.4. Bears Affirmations also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks) and review sentiment (92% vs 79%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. CanMindful sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Bears Affirmations sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bears Affirmations holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bears Affirmations has 202 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of CanMindful's written reviews are positive against 92% of Bears Affirmations's.
CanMindful ships an update every 3 weeks, Bears Affirmations daily. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | CanMindful | Bears Affirmations |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (33 ratings) | 4.9 (202 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 | 202 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 203 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zaozao Island Technology CO., Ltd | Isuru Wanasinghe |
Customer experience
CanMindful
Bears Affirmations
Bugs and requests
CanMindful
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Bears Affirmations
Reported bugs
2 issues- Last puzzle doesn't load
- Developers did not respond to contact
Requested features
6 requests- More affirmations needed
- Ability to turn off affirmations
- Ability to add own affirmations
- More complicated puzzles
- More fine details in art (backgrounds, etc.)
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- Ability to change puzzle difficulty (number of pieces)
In-app purchases
CanMindful
- CanMindful Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- CanMindful Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$19.99
- Lifetime CanMindful Pro$24.99
Bears Affirmations
- Bears Unlimited$2.99
