Bear - Markdown Notes

Name: Bear - Markdown Notes
Rating: 4.6 (804 reviews)
Author: Shiny Frog Ltd.

Clean text editor for focus

Free · In-App Purchases

804 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

Shiny Frog Ltd.
Language

EN
+ 10 More
Size

188.2
MB

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 ----- 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. ----- bear@shinyfrog.net Twitter: BearNotesApp Reddit: reddit.com/r/BearApp Facebook: BearNotes Instagram: BearNotesApp Privacy Policy: http://www.bear.app/privacy/ Terms of Service: http://www.bear.app/terms/

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Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

804 Ratings

Editors’ Choice

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.
Highly Recommended
2017-09-28
Mohfunk
I’m one of those who never rate apps unless they’re extremely impressed, and I am rarely impressed.
Highly Recommended
2017-09-28
Mohfunk

I’m one of those who never rate apps unless they’re extremely impressed, and I am rarely impressed.
Boo to subscription
2017-09-23
jacobdclemens
This is a wonderful, simple text editor and web clipper but it shouldn’t have a subscription based sync. I’m not saying it should be free but it should have one time purchase feature over the subscription based synchronization.
Boo to subscription
2017-09-23
jacobdclemens

This is a wonderful, simple text editor and web clipper but it shouldn’t have a subscription based sync. I’m not saying it should be free but it should have one time purchase feature over the subscription based synchronization.
Does What it Says on the Tin
2020-01-19
timbo milli
tldr; it’s good & worth a shot.There are many tools made to maintain the simple, pure, and elusive clarity of the analogue tasks that they aim to translate into our digital languages — those which converse with the user by means of interface, functionality, aesthetics, and the intersections thereof. I’ve been using Bear since late spring , 2019. In that time I have found it much better than ‘good enough.’ It is most often a pleasure to use. I don’t know about you, but I’d be willing to bet that you experience different modalities of thought and expression through the use of different media. Physical surroundings (lighting, noise, quality of paper, writing surface, view, air flow, even ceiling height) are of comparable significance; all these things will change both the experience of the act of creation, along with its results. To me, the tools of creation are of no lesser importance, and here I refer less to quality than to type. I find luxury to have available make these sorts of choices is one of the small administrative joys associated with both technical/professional projects and the more loveable (if less lucrative) creative ones. So this stuff does matter to me. I take a project’s objective into account when selecting the tool for the job — a mechanical pencil differs significantly from a standard biro and both the later quite markedly from a fine fountain pen. Dictation and subsequent transcription is a whole different ballgame; and of course, it being what currently passes for modernity, the smart money is on word processing via digital display taking the hungriest slice out of the statistical pie describing relative frequency of usage for most of us. I say all this by way of affirming that, over the course of our 10-month acquaintance, I have found Bear to be as close to the pleasure of a short stack of good blank paper on a clean and clear desk as I’ve been able to find in the digital world. I return to it almost as I return to a physical place that has over time become the spot where I jot down whatever rot ought best be hawked as Rorschach ink-blots to the particularly undiscerning and free-spending mark. Bear has a blank sheet on a blank desk for you, at most two swipes away from its (your) indexing components. The use of metadata (or whatever we’re calling it these days) along with markdown is more than adequate for a relatively robust on-the-fly filing system — much appreciated and free of any annoying errors as yet. The whole thing really does seem to work quite well. There is as always room for improvement, and I’d really prefer to rate this sucker a 4.8 or something, as a full 5/5 connotes a perfect that I suspect will sooner or later result from a healthy, ongoing dialogue between user base and developer. Lacking the ability to register decimal scores, I’m going to give these fellows a five not only for the reasons listed above but because I’ve been using it daily for nearly a year and it’s yet to give me a single serious headache or frustration not ultimately resulting from EBUAK (error between user and keyboard). That was a pretty fair results for me in 2019. Full disclosure, I have compared and contrasted some but not all of its potential competitors, viz intended utility. That could be taken as an indication that, after a few misfires, I hit upon this one, soon declared it ‘good enough,’ and indeed it was just that and has since only proven itself better. Well worth the price of admission if you spend much time composing with a word processor, or variety of them, and need an incubator for copy-and-pasting into less pleasant input fields. Further, the hashtag filing is just what’s needed for an author of numerous, disparate, and *as-yet* (ahem) unfinished projects best not all stacked together in a single digital drawer.I would have written a shorter review, but who has the time? All the best to any and all who read these words, may you and your loved ones meet with good health and happiness. Happy apping my fellow apes.
Does What it Says on the Tin
2020-01-19
timbo milli

tldr; it’s good & worth a shot.There are many tools made to maintain the simple, pure, and elusive clarity of the analogue tasks that they aim to translate into our digital languages — those which converse with the user by means of interface, functionality, aesthetics, and the intersections thereof. I’ve been using Bear since late spring , 2019. In that time I have found it much better than ‘good enough.’ It is most often a pleasure to use. I don’t know about you, but I’d be willing to bet that you experience different modalities of thought and expression through the use of different media. Physical surroundings (lighting, noise, quality of paper, writing surface, view, air flow, even ceiling height) are of comparable significance; all these things will change both the experience of the act of creation, along with its results. To me, the tools of creation are of no lesser importance, and here I refer less to quality than to type. I find luxury to have available make these sorts of choices is one of the small administrative joys associated with both technical/professional projects and the more loveable (if less lucrative) creative ones. So this stuff does matter to me. I take a project’s objective into account when selecting the tool for the job — a mechanical pencil differs significantly from a standard biro and both the later quite markedly from a fine fountain pen. Dictation and subsequent transcription is a whole different ballgame; and of course, it being what currently passes for modernity, the smart money is on word processing via digital display taking the hungriest slice out of the statistical pie describing relative frequency of usage for most of us. I say all this by way of affirming that, over the course of our 10-month acquaintance, I have found Bear to be as close to the pleasure of a short stack of good blank paper on a clean and clear desk as I’ve been able to find in the digital world. I return to it almost as I return to a physical place that has over time become the spot where I jot down whatever rot ought best be hawked as Rorschach ink-blots to the particularly undiscerning and free-spending mark. Bear has a blank sheet on a blank desk for you, at most two swipes away from its (your) indexing components. The use of metadata (or whatever we’re calling it these days) along with markdown is more than adequate for a relatively robust on-the-fly filing system — much appreciated and free of any annoying errors as yet. The whole thing really does seem to work quite well. There is as always room for improvement, and I’d really prefer to rate this sucker a 4.8 or something, as a full 5/5 connotes a perfect that I suspect will sooner or later result from a healthy, ongoing dialogue between user base and developer. Lacking the ability to register decimal scores, I’m going to give these fellows a five not only for the reasons listed above but because I’ve been using it daily for nearly a year and it’s yet to give me a single serious headache or frustration not ultimately resulting from EBUAK (error between user and keyboard). That was a pretty fair results for me in 2019. Full disclosure, I have compared and contrasted some but not all of its potential competitors, viz intended utility. That could be taken as an indication that, after a few misfires, I hit upon this one, soon declared it ‘good enough,’ and indeed it was just that and has since only proven itself better. Well worth the price of admission if you spend much time composing with a word processor, or variety of them, and need an incubator for copy-and-pasting into less pleasant input fields. Further, the hashtag filing is just what’s needed for an author of numerous, disparate, and *as-yet* (ahem) unfinished projects best not all stacked together in a single digital drawer.I would have written a shorter review, but who has the time? All the best to any and all who read these words, may you and your loved ones meet with good health and happiness. Happy apping my fellow apes.

- Improved the sidebar tags list animations, rendering, and updates - Fixed issues with the app state - Fixed issues with theme changing - Improved background sync - Added Expand and Collapse All tags functionalities in the sidebar ... menu

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Seller: Shiny Frog Ltd.
Size: 188.2 MB
Category: Productivity
Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.6 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.

iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.

Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 4.0 or later.
Languages: English and 10 more

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
Age Rating: 4+

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In-App Purchases: Yes

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