Bedtime Bully vs Return
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bedtime Bully
This application provides timely reminders to help users wind down and go to bed on schedule. It offers both a consistent global bedtime setting and a flexible weekly schedule to manage different bedtimes throughout the week.
- Bedtime reminders
- Global bedtime setting
- Weekly bedtime schedule
- Customizable notifications (upcoming)
- Bedtime history analytics (upcoming)
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This app focuses on helping you go to bed on time! This is done by giving you a heads up before your bedtime giving you ample time to wrap up projects and wind down for the night. You can set a global bedtime if you prefer a consistent bedtime. Or you can use the weekly schedule feature to manage different bedtimes throughout the week. Upcoming features include customizing the pre-bedtime notifications and analytics of your bedtime history.
Return
This app offers guided exercises to help you pause and reset during difficult emotional moments. It provides tools for self-reflection, breathing, and choosing grounded actions to navigate anxiety, anger, and comparison.
- Guided reset flows
- Breathing exercises
- Reflection prompts
- End-of-day review
- Saved wisdom anchors
- Virtue-focused progress
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Return is a calm self-reflection app for moments when your mind gets pulled into comparison, anxiety, anger, validation seeking, distraction, or social feed spirals. Open Return when a hard thought shows up. Name the pattern, take a breath, clear the mind, choose one grounded action, and come back to what matters. Return helps you build small moments of awareness throughout the day without pressure, streak anxiety, or judgment. Features include: - Guided reset flows for common mental loops - Breathing and clear-the-mind exercises - Reflection prompts for social media and comparison triggers - End-of-day review history - Saved wisdom anchors - Virtue-focused progress across clarity, restraint, courage, discipline, compassion, and detachment - Local-first journaling in this version Return is designed for young adults, professionals, and spiritually curious people who want a grounded way to interrupt toxic thought loops and live with more presence. Return is not a medical device, therapy service, crisis service, or substitute for professional care.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Return at 5.0 against Bedtime Bully's 4.3. Return also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Bedtime Bully sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Return asks for nothing beyond the download.
Return holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively.
Bedtime Bully ships an update every 3 weeks, Return every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bedtime Bully | Return |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Robert J Sarvis Jr | Juna Consulting Group Inc |
Customer experience
Bedtime Bully
Return
In-app purchases
Bedtime Bully
- Unlock Weekly Bedtime Schedule$1.99
Return
No in-app purchases









