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’ 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.
Best Notes App Ever!!
TLDR: Bear is an impressive notes app that functions very well on all Apple devices, and has everything you’d want in a notes app without the issues seen across it’s competitors.
This is hands down the best notes app I’ve ever used. I’ve tried them all; OneNote, Evernote, Apple Notes, you name it. None are as clean and minimal as Bear. No intrusive UI; No head-scratching organization structure; Bear allows you to jump into your notes quickly and organize them with ease using an extremely flexible tagging system. The text editor is of such good quality, it almost feels like the Notes app merged with Microsoft Word to create a perfectly balanced app for both simple and sophisticated use cases. It’s easy to import pictures, create checklists, and export to other formats as well. It comes with plenty of themes to customize to your liking, and the app is available on all Apple devices. The Apple Watch app is icing on the cake! You can craft and view entire notes from the app, and it even retains it’s structure and readability. It’s so good that I could be fine studying lecture notes on my watch if I wanted to!
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your support, and for leaving such a nice review! Stay awesome ❤️ 🐻
It is honestly not much better than Notes.
Updated, for the sake of innocent readers and my reviewer credit...
This is a very lovely app, and that is coming from someone who does not like bears or "boring" notes apps. When it comes to beauty, Bear beats the vast majority of other notes apps. Functionality, however, is another story.
The tag feature is...interesting, but what would be better is a by-file organization system. The by-tag system that the developers condone is messy and not pretty. Besides, why waste time adding all the "#lalaloopsey" nonsense when you could have created the note within the file it needs to go in? It is not as if it disturbs the flow of typing...
Two important features—exportation and locking—are behind the infernal wall of subscription. I do not need either that much, thank you! (I never said they were useless.) Locking is free with Notes. However, exportation is NOT available with Notes at all—I knew that—but Bear also locks it. For a free user, there is still lots of copying, pasting, and possibly eMailing to do.
In conclusion, Bear looks better than Notes, but looking better is Bear's sole advantage, besides expo for those who do not mind paying for one-trick-pony apps. Be real, Apple editor: It is no better than yours. (I know "they" have to say is better; I will not judge them for that.)
Developer Response ,
> why waste time adding all the "#lalaloopsey" nonsense when you could have created the note within the file it needs to go in?
Because you can do it without leaving the keyboard you are writing in. This functionality is also available in Apple Notes.
> I do not need that or exportation
You don't need it but this is currently another huge difference with Apple Notes. Notes is currently a closed system and it's very complex to move or export your work from it. We worked hard to adopt an open format people can easily move from or export for different purposes.
> In conclusion, Bear looks better than Notes, but looking better is Bear's sole advantage. Be real, Apple editor: It is no better than yours.
Nah, it's way better :)
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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.
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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 $29.99
Supports
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Siri
Get things done within this app using just your voice.