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Bear - Markdown Notes 4+
Write naturally
Shiny Frog Ltd.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown app to capture, write, and organize your life.
Take notes, plan your day, journal thoughts, organize tables, create lists and tasks, sketch ideas, link notes together, write a book, and much more. Bear is used by writers, lawyers, chefs, CEOs, teachers, doctors, engineers, students, parents.. you get the picture. Getting started couldn’t be faster—no signup and no account. Just open a note and write naturally.
"My journaling app of choice is Bear" - Kit Eaton, New York Times
* 2017 Apple Design Award
* 2016 App Store App of the Year
* Editors' choice for 7 consecutive years
* Most of our parents love it
## BEAUTIFUL. SIMPLE. POWERFUL. PRIVATE
- Tools stay out of your way so you can just write
- Sketch ideas on iPad with an extendable canvas and Apple Pencil (and other styli)
- Clip web pages and other content with Bear’s app extension
- The redesigned Info Panel now with Table of Contents and Backlinks
- Use Apple Watch to dictate and append to recent notes
- Support for all the scripts including RTL languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian
- Easily create notes with Siri and Shortcuts
- Your notes, not ours - Bear is private at its core: We cannot see your notes, tags, or anything else
## FLEXIBLE MARKDOWN
- Work in plain text - easy to move between apps
- Still use formatting like bold, italics, strikethrough, links, tables, and more with Markdown
- Combine text styles like bold and underline, even in headings
- Markdown hides for a clean reading experience
- Use WikiLinks to connect notes and build a personal wiki or knowledge management tool
## GET ORGANIZED with #tags, tasks, and more
- Add #tags, #multi-word tags# and even #multiple/nested/tags anywhere in a note for quick organization
- Pin important tags to the top of the Sidebar
- Make important tags stand out in the Sidebar with TagCons
- Add tasks to notes and easily view all notes that include tasks
- Fold sections to get them out of the way
## SHARING MADE EASY
- Export notes to plain text, Markdown, TextBundle, Bear note, and rich text
- Export notes to HTML, DocX, PDF, JPG, and ePub (Bear Pro required)
- Easily share your notes to any third-party app with the Share Sheet
## SEARCH FAR AND WIDE
- Use Spotlight to search your notes from anywhere
- Search for text inside photos and PDFs (Bear Pro required)
- Focus on specific types of notes with powerful Special Searches like @todo, @images, and @yesterday
## CREATE YOUR COZY SPACE
* Pick from nearly 30 themes for the perfect writing space in both Light and Dark Mode (Bear Pro required)
* Choose an app icon that speaks to your personality (Bear Pro required)
* Set your own fonts for plain text, headings, and code
* Set line height and width, paragraph spacing, and more
## GET MORE WITH BEAR PRO
One subscription enables a variety of features on all your devices and keeps the Bear hugs coming.
- Sync notes between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud
- Encrypt individual notes with a password that is entirely private to you
- Lock Bear with Face/Touch ID
- Export to more formats including HTML, DocX, PDF, JPG, and ePub
- Search for text inside images and PDFs in Bear notes
- Over 30 beautiful app themes & app icons
$2.99 monthly
$29.99 yearly
14-day free trial
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Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your App Store account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. After purchase, manage your subscriptions in App Store Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription.
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Privacy Policy: http://www.bear.app/privacy/
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What’s New
Version 2.2.2
* Fixed misplaced side actions on iPads
* Korean localization fix
* Fixed crash caused by the side actions
* Fixed bug of copy as Plain Text with unlinked [link references]
* Better handling of editing and unfolding near folded sections
* The markdown folder importer now ignores symlinks and aliases
Ratings and Reviews
Editors' Notes
Steinbeck liked pencils, and Orwell had his trusty Remington typewriter. But us? We like Bear. It’s a writing app that’s as capable as the best of them—but doesn’t bury us in technical intricacies and toolbars. Linking notes is as easy as dropping a hashtag, and formatting your work is a total breeze. We especially love this Apple Design Award winner on iPad.
Love it!
Easy to use, especially with the little bear illustrations (I love little touches like that). It did take me a little bit to adjust to the different ways of organising notes and formatting them but it’s become second nature. Because of the way they’re organised, it’s so easy to find notes, especially with the search function that goes through all of them. It’s easy to pick up where I left off on either my laptop or iPad with the iCloud sync.
I love the different themes, especially when writing notes for uni at night where I can switch to one of the darker themes to prevent eye strain. It’s more of an aesthetic complaint, but it does bother me that the icon changes back to the original icon colour and that the last (or first) column is a dark grey that doesn’t always match the theme.
Aside from those small things I’ve loved this app to transition to digital note taking!
Love the app but I think the update broke it
I love this app! I’ve used it for years for everything. Shopping lists, journaling, budgeting, scheduling, you name it. Bear is like my personal assistant. It has great note customisation options but it’s still so simple to use and doesn’t have the cluttered or ugly layout many other note apps do. Normally it is incredibly smooth and easy to use. All in all, it would be a 5 star app on any other day, and has been all the way up until the most recent update.
I was really surprised at the new update. Keyboard integrated controls, a whole new world of options for your notes, and SO much more. But maybe too much? My phone freezes every time I use the app now. It glitches, it lags, it bugs out. I can’t use it! This morning I was just trying to write a to-do list and I got about halfway through before the app essentially broke. Every time I try to go back into it, it freezes immediately again.
All my other apps are working fine and my phone is up to date and working well otherwise. It’s just this app, and only since the update. Definitely worth the download!! But… maybe once this is fixed.
Subscriptions
App Privacy
The developer, Shiny Frog Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
- Seller
- Shiny Frog Ltd.
- Size
- 73.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 4.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Shiny Frog Ltd.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly Pro subscription $2.99
- Yearly Pro subscription $22.99
Supports
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Siri
Get things done within this app using just your voice.