Bear With Me vs Focus Friend
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.
Focus Friend
This app offers a guilt-free daily planner designed for ADHD brains. It combines task management with neurodivergent focus strategies like body doubling and energy tracking to help users build momentum and complete tasks.
- Body doubling and study buddies
- Energy-based planning
- Visual focus timers with ambient noise
- Zero-overhead task boards
- Smart task suggestions
- On-device privacy
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Focus Friend is the guilt-free daily planner built specifically for the ADHD brain. If standard to-do lists leave you feeling overwhelmed, paralyzed, or burnt out, you are in the right place. We combine task management with proven neurodivergent focus strategies—like body doubling and energy tracking—so you can finally build momentum and get things done. WHY IT WORKS FOR ADHD: Body Doubling & Study Buddies: Can't start a task? Work alongside a virtual study buddy or a real-time "Work With Me" video right inside the app to instantly break through task paralysis. Energy-Based Planning: Stop forcing productivity. Track your energy levels to spot your natural focus windows and work when your brain is actually ready. Visual Focus Timers: Combat time blindness with simple, color-coded focus sessions and ambient background noise (brown noise, lo-fi, coffee shop). Zero-Overhead Task Boards: Triage your day fast. Sort tasks into High, Medium, or Low priority, or simply drop them into Morning, Afternoon, or Evening buckets. No complex scheduling required. Smart Task Support: Let on-device intelligence suggest categories and urgency so you don't have to overthink it. PRIVACY FIRST Your brain dump is safe. Your task data stays securely on your device, with smart suggestions running locally for maximum privacy. Important: Focus Friend is a productivity and self-management app. It is not a medical app and does not provide diagnosis, treatment, or medical advice. PREMIUM & PRICING Focus Friend offers a free version to help you get started with limited daily tasks. Ready to go all in? Start a 7-day free trial of Focus Friend Premium (yearly plan) to unlock unlimited tasks, advanced tracking, and our full library of body-doubling features. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://shubhamjada.github.io/privacy/privacy-policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bear With Me at none against Focus Friend's 2. 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. Focus Friend sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Bear With Me asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bear With Me against 5.0 for Focus Friend. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Bear With Me ships an update weekly, Focus Friend every 6 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Bear With Me | Focus Friend |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Uphill Journey, LLC | Shubham Jada |
Customer experience
Bear With Me
Focus Friend
In-app purchases
Bear With Me
No in-app purchases
Focus Friend
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
