Comparison

Pull‑Free vs Hair Pulling Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Pull‑Free

This app uses your iPhone's camera to detect when your hands approach your face or hair, providing real-time alerts to help break habits like hair-pulling, skin-picking, and nail-biting. It focuses on building awareness and tracking progress privately on your device.

Highlights
  • Real-time hand-to-face detection
  • Customizable alerts (haptic, sound, flash)
  • On-device private processing
  • Adjustable sensitivity and cooldown
  • Progress tracking and streaks
  • Support for trichotillomania, dermatillomania, nail-biting
Features
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You touch your face dozens of times an hour without noticing. FaceFence helps you break the habit. Prop up your iPhone, and its front camera watches for the moment your hand drifts toward your face or hair — then gives you an instant buzz so you can catch yourself in real time. Whether you're working through hair-pulling (trichotillomania), skin-picking (dermatillomania), nail-biting, or any body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB), awareness is the first step to change. REAL-TIME DETECTION Powered by Apple's on-device Vision framework, FaceFence tracks your hands and face and alerts you the instant they get too close — a gentle haptic buzz, a sound, and an on-screen flash. 100% PRIVATE All processing happens on your iPhone. Your camera feed is never recorded, stored, or uploaded. Ever. BUILT FOR REAL USE - Prop your phone up facing you while you work, study, scroll, or relax - Adjustable sensitivity to match how close is "too close" - Cooldown control so you're nudged, not nagged - Pause anytime, plus a quick Test button to feel how it works TRACK YOUR PROGRESS - Daily detection counts and trends - Detections-per-hour and total monitoring time - Pull-free streaks and achievements to keep you motivated MADE FOR THE BFRB COMMUNITY - Hair-pulling (trichotillomania) - Skin-picking (dermatillomania) - Nail-biting and cheek-biting - Building awareness of unconscious face-touching and fidgeting A note: FaceFence watches while the app is open with the screen on — prop your phone up facing you and let it keep an eye out. It's a gentle awareness tool, not a medical device. Hands off. Pull-free. FaceFence is your gentle reminder.

About

Hair Pulling Tracker

Features
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BFRB Tracker is a self-monitoring tool built around Habit Reversal Training (HRT) techniques for hair pulling, skin picking, and nail biting. Log an urge or an episode in seconds, watch your own pattern build over weeks, and reach for a stimulus-control plan or a competing response the moment you notice an urge starting. A broken streak isn't a failure here — it's data. BFRB Tracker exists to make your own pattern visible: when urges happen, what tends to trigger them, and which response actually helps you ride one out instead of acting on it. FREE • Log an urge or episode — record intensity and context in seconds, any time of day • Streak tracking — a reset is treated as data, never as failure • Starter competing-response techniques — a fist clench, a stress-ball squeeze, cold water on the hands, and other first-line responses • Starter stimulus-control tips — change your environment ahead of high-risk situations • 30-day progress view — your logging streak and pattern trends over the last month • Recent entries list — scan back through your last several logged urges and episodes • Crisis Resources — real support, always free, no purchase required PRO (auto-renewing subscription, in-app purchase) • Weekly AI pattern summary — a plain-language read of what your own logged data says about this week • Full competing-response library — every technique, for every behavior type • Full stimulus-control planner — every planning tool, not just the starter tips • Unlimited progress history and data export • Ad-free — no banners or interstitials Free-tier techniques can also be unlocked one at a time by watching a short ad, with no subscription required. WHY BFRB TRACKER • Built around Habit Reversal Training — the same clinical model used in professional BFRB treatment, adapted into a self-monitoring tool • Logging takes seconds — urges and episodes get recorded in the moment, not reconstructed later • Free to start — the core log, streak tracking, and starter techniques cost nothing; the full library, planner, and AI pattern summary are part of Pro • No judgment in the data — every entry, including a reset streak, is just information about your own pattern • Private by design — your episode log stays on your device WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone who pulls hair, picks skin, or bites nails and wants to understand their own pattern • People already familiar with Habit Reversal Training who want a log built around it • Anyone who wants a stimulus-control plan and a competing response ready before the next urge hits • People who want a private way to track urges without judgment • Anyone who has tried to describe their pattern to a therapist and realized they had no actual log to bring to the session BFRB Tracker is a self-monitoring tool, not a diagnosis, treatment, or substitute for professional mental-health care. If you're in crisis, the app's Crisis Resources page connects you to real support right away, at no cost. The free urge log and starter technique library get you started; Pro adds the full library, planner, and weekly pattern insights. Download BFRB Tracker and start seeing your own pattern. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://coddykit.com/terms/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Pull‑Free4 screens
Hair Pulling Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pull‑Free at none against Hair Pulling Tracker's 2. Pull‑Free also leads on ads (none vs shown). Hair Pulling Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hair Pulling Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Pull‑Free asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Pull‑Free versus Hair Pulling Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPull‑FreeHair Pulling Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDerinbogaz VenturesMEHMET CANKER (TR)

In-app purchases

None

Pull‑Free

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Hair Pulling Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • BFRB Tracker Pro monthly$4.991 Month
  • BFRB Tracker Pro annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Pull‑Free free?
Pull‑Free is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hair Pulling Tracker free?
Hair Pulling Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pull‑Free or Hair Pulling Tracker have ads?
Hair Pulling Tracker shows ads; Pull‑Free does not.

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