Breaks vs Bebop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Breaks
This app helps you enhance productivity by timeboxing work and breaks. It offers a simple, single-screen interface to set durations and start focus sessions. Receive notifications for session completion and utilize interactive widgets for easy control.
- Customizable work and break durations
- Session start and end notifications
- Work-only or break-only sessions
- Interactive widgets for session control
- Single-screen simplicity
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Breaks is a simple focus timer to help you do your best work. Breaks lets you easily timebox your work and ensure you’re taking adequate breaks, so you can focus better and be more productive. Breaks is designed to be simple as possible with no extraneous features. Too many apps today try to do too much and make it difficult to do the one thing you actually want the app to do. Breaks is a single screen. You set your work duration, break duration, and hit Start Session, and that's it! Breaks will remember your last used durations so when your session is over, you can go again with a single tap. - Start a focus session with work and break durations - Get notifications when the work portion is over and at the end of the session - Can do work-only or break-only sessions - Interactive widgets lets you see the current time remaining as well as start/stop/restart sessions
Bebop
This app prioritizes speed and simplicity for capturing ideas as plain text. It offers seamless cloud syncing and integration with other apps, allowing for a clutter-free, capture-first mobile editing experience. Advanced features and customization are available through a one-time upgrade.
- Lightning-fast plain text capture
- Clutter-free interface
- iCloud Drive/Dropbox sync
- Open plain-text formats (.txt, .md)
- Customizable headers, footers, filenames
- Flashback recent notes
- Share extension for saving content
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Bebop helps you get down your ideas, fast. It assumes that review and organization are better done on larger screens—that a mobile text editor should be lightning-fast, clutter-free, and capture-first. • No ads, no logins, no tracking: Files are synced natively to your chosen iCloud Drive or Dropbox folder • BYOMA (Bring Your Own MacOS App): Open plain-text formats like .txt and .md/markdown plug neatly into Obsidian • Custom headers, footers, and filename formats: To work with your workflow • Flashback notes: Cycle through recent notes with a single tap • Share extension: Quickly save links and text from other iOS apps • Widgets and shortcut: Launch Bebop in any number of ways • Unlimited notes (even for free users) For a one-time Pro upgrade (no subscriptions!) you’ll also get color themes, custom templating, power-user settings, and help support future development. --- Bebop is made by Jack Cheng, an author and solo developer in Detroit, Michigan. More info and privacy policy: https://www.jackcheng.com/bebop/ * Dropbox sync requires you to have the Dropbox iOS app installed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bebop at Free against Breaks's $0.99. Bebop also leads on ratings volume (43 vs 3). Breaks's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Bebop is free to download; Breaks costs $0.99 up front. Bebop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Breaks asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Breaks against 4.9 for Bebop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bebop has 43 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Breaks | Bebop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.9 (43 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 95.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 43 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Waugh | Jack Cheng LLC |
Customer experience
Breaks
Bebop
In-app purchases
Breaks
No in-app purchases
Bebop
- Pro Upgrade$4.99









