Bear With Me vs Personal.AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Set focus timers
- Progress resets on app switching
- Collect cookies for focus
- Minimize distractions
- Study and work aid
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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.
Personal.AI
An on-device AI assistant that processes information locally for enhanced privacy and structured understanding. It offers web search, local document querying, and agent mode for complex reasoning, all without sending data to external servers.
- On-device AI processing
- Web search integration
- Local RAG for document querying
- Agent mode for multi-step reasoning
- Offline AI experience
- Support for quantized models
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Personal.AI is an on-device AI assistant designed for reading and exploring AI-generated knowledge in a clear, structured, and private way. • All AI runs directly on your device • Interact with powerful models without sending data to external servers • Designed for privacy, readability, and simplicity • Structured answers that make complex topics easy to understand Key Features • On-Device AI Processing All AI runs locally. Your prompts and responses stay private. • Web Search Get real-time answers from the web, even for complex questions. • Local RAG Ask questions using your documents and saved content. • Agent Mode Get smarter answers with multi-step reasoning. • Support for Quantized Models Supports GGUF models for efficient on-device performance. • Offline AI Experience Works fully offline once a model is downloaded. • Model Switching Choose smaller models for speed or larger models for deeper answers. • Structured Reading Interface Clean, layered responses designed for easy reading. • Privacy-First Design No tracking. No data collection. Your data stays with you. Privacy • AI processing happens entirely on your device • No personal data is collected • No data is sent to external servers • No analytics or tracking Our Goal • A non-profit project focused on on-device AI • Built for privacy, readability, and user-first design
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Bear With Me at 15.1 against Personal.AI's 17.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bear With Me against 5.0 for Personal.AI. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bear With Me | Personal.AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Uphill Journey, LLC | Jagadeesh Raghu |
Customer experience
Bear With Me
Personal.AI
In-app purchases
Bear With Me
No in-app purchases
Personal.AI
No in-app purchases
