How much does the Bend app cost?

What the App Store listing shows

Under In-App Purchases, Bend’s listing shows three Monthly Membership prices: $4.99, $9.99 and $13.99. It shows Annual Membership at $39.99 and $29.99, both labelled 50% off, and at $23.99 and $19.99, both labelled 70% off. Apple lists every price an app has on sale without saying who sees which, so the price in the app may be any of these. The app requires iOS 17 or later.

What Bend’s own website says

Bend’s homepage invites you to try the app for free and download it. It showed no prices when we checked on November 10, 2026. The App Store listing itself does not mention a free trial, so we could not confirm one or how long it lasts.

How to see your price before you pay

Open the membership screen inside Bend. Before anything is charged, the App Store shows a confirmation sheet with the exact price and how often it renews, and nothing is billed until you confirm there. That sheet is the price that applies to you.

What unhappy reviewers said about the price

Separately, in September 2026 we read 1,001 one- and two-star US App Store reviews across 38 stretching, posture and break-reminder apps and tagged every complaint. Low-star reviews are complaints by definition, and some are several years old, so the counts show what goes wrong when something does, not how often it happens. We found 16 low-star reviews of Bend, written between July and September 2026. Four said the app needs payment to be useful, four said it costs too much for what it is, three said there was no free trial or it was too short, and two complained about the amount charged or about extra purchases. Bend’s listing showed about 175,000 ratings, so these 16 are a very small share of its users.

How the price compares

By the prices on each App Store listing on November 10, 2026: Start Stretching lists one $1.99 purchase, Pause is $4.99 a month, JustStretch lists $9.99 and $19.99 a month, GOWOD $13.99, pliability $19.99 and STRETCHIT $24.99. For a year, GOWOD lists $124.99 and both pliability and STRETCHIT list $179.99. Bend’s annual prices, from $19.99 to $39.99, are far below those. Only JustStretch, at $29.99 to $47.99 for 12 months, is in the same range.

Where Pause fits

Pause is our app, and it is a different thing: quiet reminders during working hours that open a short guided stretch, movement or breathing break. Pause Plus costs US $4.99 a month or $12.99 every three months. Drawbacks: there is no free tier and no free trial, it is iPhone only, and the library is small, with 11 movements and 2 breathing practices and no video. It is also new: its App Store listing showed one rating when we checked. For daily flexibility routines, Bend offers far more for the money.

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