74
BU Score
Strong
BlockBear!
✍️ BU Analytics Review
“
BlockBear! is an iOS app from TunnelBear, LLC in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.7★ across 2,763 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 74 — Strong (healthy traction). For a Productivity app, that means healthy traction.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
creator
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
Loading…
Rating
—
Reviews
—
Forecast Revenue / mo
—
Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (2,763 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
Jul 24
Sep 24
Oct 24
Jan 25
Mar 25
Jun 25
Aug 25
Sep 25
Oct 25
Nov 25
Jan 26
Feb 26
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 19 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v1.3.1🔄 updated 8y ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)
📝 About this app
Rawr! BlockBear is a really simple and ferocious adblocking app that allows you to browse the web ad-free and reclaim valuable screen space.
BlockBear:
• Blocks ads (popups, text ads, banners) and removes website clutter
• Loads many websites 3-5x faster saving time and bandwidth
• Protects your privacy from widespread online tracking (cookies, beacons, scripts, etc)
• Lets you choose to block any combination of ads, online tracking and social buttons with a simple switch
• Helps you to conveniently whitelist your favourite websites from within Safari using the BlockBear Safari extension
• Includes 100% more bears than competing ad blockers
Yeah, you could download another adblocker… but then you wouldn’t have a bear.
BlockBear:
• Blocks ads (popups, text ads, banners) and removes website clutter
• Loads many websites 3-5x faster saving time and bandwidth
• Protects your privacy from widespread online tracking (cookies, beacons, scripts, etc)
• Lets you choose to block any combination of ads, online tracking and social buttons with a simple switch
• Helps you to conveniently whitelist your favourite websites from within Safari using the BlockBear Safari extension
• Includes 100% more bears than competing ad blockers
Yeah, you could download another adblocker… but then you wouldn’t have a bear.
🆕 What's New · v1.3.1
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
• Fixed an embearassing bug that caused BlockBear to ask you to download block list updates, even when none were available.
• Fixed an embearassing bug that caused BlockBear to ask you to download block list updates, even when none were available.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- BlockBear!
- Developer
- TunnelBear, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.tunnelbear.BlockBear
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- blockbear.com
- Tagline
- BlockBear | Block ads and protect your privacy
- Description
- A really simple, often adorable adblocker for your iPhone or iPad. You could download another ad blocker, but then you wouldn't have a bear!
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $13.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://twitter.com/theblockbear
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
📈Ratings growth2,763 ratings+591% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
More Productivity
Microsoft Outlook
★ 4.8 · 8,891,395 reviews
Google Drive – online backup
★ 4.8 · 7,526,498 reviews
ChatGPT
★ 4.8 · 7,136,919 reviews
Yahoo Mail – Alles im Blick
★ 4.7 · 4,623,459 reviews
HP
★ 4.6 · 4,011,497 reviews
Google Docs
★ 4.8 · 3,078,214 reviews
Microsoft Word
★ 4.7 · 2,843,856 reviews
Gmail – E-Mail von Google
★ 4.7 · 2,406,337 reviews
Browse BU Analytics
📚 All 55,000+ Books
🜍 Alchemy & Hermeticism
🔮 Magic & Ritual
🌙 Witchcraft & Paganism
⭐ Astrology & Cosmology
🃏 Divination & Tarot
📜 Productivity
✡️ Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism
🕉️ Mysticism & Contemplation
🕊️ Theosophy & Anthroposophy
🏛️ Freemasonry & Secret Societies
👻 Spiritualism & Afterlife
📖 Sacred Texts & Gnosticism
👁️ Supernatural & Occult Fiction
🧘 Spiritual Development
📚 Esoteric History & Biography
Info
About BU Analytics