Cold Shower Therapy vs HeyBear!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cold Shower Therapy
This app helps you build mental toughness by tracking your daily cold shower practice. Monitor your streaks, view progress with stats, and join a community of individuals challenging their comfort zones. Daily reminders and a global leaderboard encourage consistency.
- Track cold shower streaks
- View progress with stats
- Calendar history view
- Global leaderboard competition
- Daily consistency reminders
- Theme customization
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Build mental toughness one cold shower at a time. Cold Shower Therapy helps you track your daily cold shower practice, build streaks, and join a community of people pushing their comfort zones. FEATURES: • Track your cold shower streaks • View your progress with beautiful stats • See your history on the calendar • Compete on the global leaderboard • Daily reminders to stay consistent • Choose between Ice Blue and Arctic White themes WHY COLD SHOWERS? Cold showers have been shown to boost energy, improve circulation, increase alertness, and build mental resilience. Start your day by doing something hard. Sign in with Apple to sync your progress and compete with others. From IMPOSSIBLE® - helping you do hard things since 2010. Based on the original cold shower therapy post - http://impossiblehq.com/cold-shower-therapy More cold shower resources http://impossiblehq.com/cold-shower-therapy-guide http://impossiblehq.com/cold-shower-health-benefits http://coldshowertherapy.com Special thanks to Nick Reese.
HeyBear!
Enhance your safety in bear country with this app that alerts bears to your presence. It offers various sounds and voices to help you avoid surprising wildlife. Works with phone speakers or external Bluetooth devices for increased volume and battery efficiency.
- Alerts bears to your presence
- Multiple voice and sound options
- Customizable sound sequences
- Use with phone or Bluetooth speaker
- Increases perceived group size
- Helps avoid surprising wildlife
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A bear safety app for your phone, alerts bears of your presence. Increase your safety when traveling in bear country. This phone app helps you be heard by bears, so you don't make the mistake of surprising them. HeyBear! works well with Bluetooth external speakers, like the ION Clipster Active. “Hey bear! Here we come! Hey bear!” My wife, friends and I have been calling out these words for decades while hiking in bear country in Alaska. As the bear safety saying goes: “Make noise when traveling in bear country”. Sudden encounters with bears, that’ don’t hear you coming, can be dangerous. The HeyBear! phone app helps alert bears of your presence. The app can be used with the phone’s speaker or paired with a Bluetooth external speaker for more volume and better phone battery life. The ION Clipster Active is such an external speaker that works well with the HeyBear! phone app. HeyBear! provides a number of progressively assertive voices and sounds: bear bells, female voice, male voice, whistle, alarm and siren. There are four audio clips for each of these sound categories and they can be played sequentially or randomly. Multiple categories can be selected, so you can customize a variety of sounds. Of course, you can make your own noise when traveling in bear country. But by pairing your voice with this phone app, it will sound to a bear like more people are approaching. This will increase the safety factor. Plus, if travelers are unfamiliar with what sounds to make when in bear country, this app can do the job for them. My companions and I have seen many bears over the decades of recreating in the backcountry of Alaska. But we have never had a bear charge us. Most likely this is because we have let the bears hear us before they see us. Hopefully the HeyBear! phone app can help make travel in bear country safer for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cold Shower Therapy at Free against HeyBear!'s $1.99. Cold Shower Therapy also leads on ratings volume (107 vs 1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months). HeyBear!'s advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Cold Shower Therapy is free to download; HeyBear! costs $1.99 up front. Cold Shower Therapy sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. HeyBear! asks for nothing beyond the download.
HeyBear! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cold Shower Therapy has 107 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Cold Shower Therapy's written reviews are positive against 100% of HeyBear!'s.
Cold Shower Therapy ships an update monthly, HeyBear! every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cold Shower Therapy | HeyBear! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (107 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 107 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Impossible X LLC | Timothy Kelley |
Customer experience
Cold Shower Therapy
HeyBear!
Bugs and requests
Cold Shower Therapy
Reported bugs
28 issues- Account creation errors
- Cannot get back into the app after signing out
- App is buggy and outdated
- App is broken and no longer works
- Stopped logging showers
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- Data corruption and loss of streaks/stats
- App crashed
- Stats reduced to incorrect numbers
- Current streak data disappeared
- Incorrect days shown for streaks
- Invalid login parameters
- Cannot sign in with Facebook
- Music doesn't play
- Doesn't keep a counter going
- Lost records multiple times
- App is very unstable
- New update requires re-login with no password reset
- Wouldn't register shower on calendar
- Add past shower feature doesn't work
- Contact feature not working
- Does not always update, leading to lost stats/rankings
- Black screen on opening
- Downloading new iOS update deletes shower history
- Screen never turns off when app is open
- App crashes or doesn't open properly
- Statistics screen won't scroll
- Total cold showers doesn't fit on older iPhones
- Total showers count is wrong
Requested features
19 requests- Ability to edit starting date
- Manual add option for past showers
- Adjustable prep time beyond 5 seconds
- Increase alarm volume
- Option to shut off music prompt
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- Record total number of showers
- Ability to delete incorrect entries
- Intermediate chimes/countdown
- Connect to Spotify
- See notes afterwards
- Make timer work without multiple button presses
- Make noise when timer is up
- Apple Watch app
- Ability to edit journal entries
- Option for rare days without showers
- Change alarm to 10 minutes
- Allow current song to finish after alarm
- Toggle to stop screen from turning off
- Offline tracking
HeyBear!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cold Shower Therapy
- Cold Shower for Yesterday$0.99
- 3-Months Optional Patronage$2.99
- 6-Months Optional Patronage$5.99
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- 12-Months Optional Patronage$11.99
HeyBear!
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Cold Shower Therapy free?
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