Comparison

Bear With Me vs iWorkUntil

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

Head to head
About

Bear With Me

This app helps you stay focused by timing your work sessions and resetting your progress if you switch to other applications. Earn cookies as a reward for your concentration and minimize distractions from social media and other apps.

Highlights
  • Set focus timers
  • Progress resets on app switching
  • Collect cookies for focus
  • Minimize distractions
  • Study and work aid
Features
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Bear With Me. Open this app, set the time, and focus. If you switch apps, your progress resets. Simple. Collect cookies for being focused. The Bear With Me focus timer keeps you away from your daily distractions such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc. Focus your energy on studying, working, earning.

About

iWorkUntil

Features
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iWorkUntil turns the time you have left into something you can actually see — every minute is a visible block, the grid fills as time passes, and one glance tells you where you stand in the day, the session, or the workday. Built for anyone who'd rather see time than read it. Especially good for ADHD focus sessions, deep-work blocks, study time, and any moment where "how long left?" is the question that matters. No accounts. No ads. No notifications. No streaks to break. No AI nagging. Just time, made visible. WHAT IT DOES • Visual countdown — your time as a grid of blocks that fills as it passes • Pick a duration (e.g. 25 minutes) or a range (e.g. 9 to 5) • Each block represents a slice of your time — at a glance, you know where you are • Choose a theme that fits your screen • Lives in the corner — never in the way WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone who loses track of time when they're focused • Visual thinkers who do better with shapes than with numbers • Pomodoro and deep-work sessions that need a clear stop signal • Workdays, homework, study breaks, screen-time wind-down • Cooking, exercise, meetings, presentations — anything time-boxed WHAT IT DOESN'T DO • No notifications. No dings. No dopamine traps. • No accounts, no logins, no data collection. • No ads, no subscriptions, no upsells. • No AI, no streaks, no guilt. A visual countdown that shows you time, instead of telling you about it. Available in 11 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Danish, Swedish, Slovenian.

Screenshots

Bear With Me3 screens
iWorkUntil4 screens

Verdict

The call

Bear With Me and iWorkUntil are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bear With Me ships an update weekly, iWorkUntil every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Bear With Me versus iWorkUntil: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBear With MeiWorkUntil
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUphill Journey, LLCDavid Klausz

In-app purchases

None

Bear With Me

No in-app purchases

None

iWorkUntil

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bear With Me free?
Bear With Me is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iWorkUntil free?
iWorkUntil is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bear With Me or iWorkUntil have ads?
Neither Bear With Me nor iWorkUntil shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bear With Me or iWorkUntil?
Bear With Me ships an update weekly, and iWorkUntil every 8 days. Most recently, Bear With Me was updated on September 24, 2026 and iWorkUntil on October 2, 2026.

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