Bike Outliner | Writing App 4+

Structured & focused writing

Jesse Grosjean

    • 4.5 • 14 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Bike is a better place to think and write.
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Use Bike to write, think, organize.
Make lists, take notes, create documents.
Bike's an unusually fast writing app designed for your Mac.

Bike’s fast.
It can handle big projects that break other writing apps.
Bike's also fast at the basics–opening files, scrolling views, and resizing windows.
Bike is a native app that won’t slow your Mac down.

Bike's nimble.
Use it as the main app for a big writing project, or as a supporting app for notes and ideas.
Standard file formats, shortcuts support, and scripting allow Bike to integrate with your existing workflows.

Bike's innovative.
Your ideas flow smoothly across the screen.
You get the power of outlining combined with the flexibility of a text editor.
Bike is a powerful tool that's also enjoyable to use.

Key Features
• Clean and simple outliner
• Fluid outlining experience
• Fold and focus to manage big outlines
• Fast keyboard navigation & commands
• Fast fully native macOS Application

Supporting Features
• Innovative rich text editor
• Checklists, ordered lists, more
• Fast "Focus Heading" navigation
• Improved macOS text checking
• Great at text and outline editing
• Word count and fullscreen editing
• Optional navigation bar with history
• Typewriter scrolling & text focus modes
• Active support community ready to help
• Printing, quicklook, and icon thumbnails
• Use outline paths to efficiently query your outline
• Bike uses open file formats. (.html, .opml, .txt)
• Use Shortcuts to control and automate Bike
• Use AppleScript to control and automate Bike

Learn More
• https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/

Terms of Use
• https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What’s New

Version 1.18.2

• Added Markdown to Edit Rows action
• Changed Create row action Plain parameter to Text
• Improve error message when license fails
• Fixed "License Required" spelling
• Fixed iCloud folder icon. I think!
• Fixed Open Outline action to make outline frontmost
• Fixed Create Row shortcut to have default text value
• Fixed case where text caret would stop showing in editor
• Fixed text encoding problems when pasting HTML fragments

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
14 Ratings

14 Ratings

LeDonnie ,

A fantastic addition to the MacOS ecosystem

Coming from Workflowy, Craft, Obsidian, etc., I'm so impressed to see the outlining muscle of Workflowy, combined with the native Mac smoothness of Craft, and finally the local storage and portability of Obsidian. Bike Outliner is amazing, and I'm definitely going to support the developer to see more features eventually rolled out. I'd like Rich Text, just to add a touch more visual context. As it is now though, a pleasure to use.

1JMJ15 ,

Best note-taking app ever!

Never thought I'd leave Mac Notes but Bike works far better because of how you can minimize and expand

Old Pantoufle ,

Pure joy

Minimalist. Lightning fast. Elegant. Simple. Compliments iA Writer. Praying that he sticks to these principles and doesn't load it down with baggage. Like Rich Text.
Note the dual modes. Super fast to switch between.
And imports from/exports to MindNode.

App Privacy

The developer, Jesse Grosjean, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

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  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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