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
- Clip web pages and other content with Bear’s app extension
- The redesigned Info Panel now with Table of Contents and Backlinks
- 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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Reddit: reddit.com/r/BearApp
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Privacy Policy: http://www.bear.app/privacy/
Terms of Service: http://www.bear.app/terms/
What’s New
Version 2.3.5
* New Crash report service: Sentry. The old one, AppCenter, will close in February 2025.
* Localisation fixes
* Better DOCX export for numbered lists
* Fixed issue with tables and the wiki link insertion
* Some performance improvements for large notes
Ratings and Reviews
Unbelievably good.
I've been using Bear for about 3 years and I cannot live without it now - it's the only app that makes me want to write things down because the experience is so ridiculously good. No other apps even come close to the writing experience, the awesome tag organisation, the speed of syncing, export features, the beautiful themes, the privacy, the... Okay you get the point. I could go on for hours about how good this app is, but you should just try it and see for yourself.
I was skeptical about paying a subscription for a note taking app, because that honestly sounds ridiculous. But Bear astonishingly makes it worthwhile, and at the very least you know you're supporting the future development of this awesome app, ensuring that it will be around for many more years to come.
They just added note encryption and the ability to lock the app, and I hear that a web version is coming soon as well - they are constantly adding valuable new features and this is why I will continue paying monthly for what is truly my favourite app of all time.
Developer Response ,
Your favourite?!! Oh you are making us blush! Many thanks for your lovely review and kind words, hoping you've a lovely day! ❤️🐻
Brilliant app!
I don’t normally write reviews, but Bear for me is worth it. It’s an amazing app that keeps all your notes super organised and easy to access. I use it for writing notes, random thoughts/ideas and even for school work as it made it so much easier for me to check what was learnt the previous lesson and quickly switch to and from each note - much more effective than having multiple documents open at the same time! It’s also a lot less daunting than a blank white document so I often got more work and writing done as a result. The word count is really helpful, as is the read time. I don’t think it’s too expensive to buy Pro, however a pay-once option would be nice, and it is unfortunate that you can’t sync between devices without paying for the subscription. But luckily, the app still works beautifully without Pro and I continue to use it daily. Overall, a brilliant app!
Fantastic, take my money!
I don’t understand how people complain about the pricing model when you get a robust note taking app for free. People need to put things into perspective: the subscription model (for a year) costs roughly the same price as 5 cups of coffee. I enjoy my coffee for 10 minutes whereas this app I enjoy on daily basis.
I send everything to Bear from everywhere - phone, iPad, Safari. The classification using tags is a brilliant idea and makes moving things a breeze (try moving things on OneNote!). It feels so solid and robust, it’s just there whenever I need it without taking a long time to show me what I want unlike others (I am looking @ you, OneNote).
Support great app development…I know subscription pricing models don’t appeal to many, but with the amount of time this app saves (especially time I spend researching note-taking apps) it has already paid for itself many many times.
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:
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Shiny Frog Ltd.
- Size
- 41.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.3 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Shiny Frog Ltd.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Bear Pro $2.99
- Bear Pro $22.99