Bear is the best
So simple and yet powerful. Everything goes into Bear.
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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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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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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[email protected]
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/
In-Apps
- Yearly Pro subscription
- $22.99
- Monthly Pro subscription
- $2.99
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Is Bear free?
Yes, Bear is free to download, however it contains in-app purchases or subscription offerings.
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How much does Bear cost?
Bear has several in-app purchases/subscriptions, the average in-app price is $12.99.
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User Rating
4.69 out of 5
570 ratings in Australia
5 star
480
4 star
44
3 star
16
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1 star
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Ratings History
Bear Reviews
Love Bear!
Yes, I love Bear but I’m giving 1 star because I CAN’T use Bear. I created an account using my phone and then a different account (with a different email address) on my laptop. Now, I Can’t log out and log in again with my new account. I’ve tried to click everywhere, submitted a support ticket, and tried to find the answer online. Nothing helped and I can’t access my account on my phone.
Fix iPad issues pls
The app works fine on my iPhone but the app crashes on my iPad. I go to click a note or a link in a note and the app crashes. Works fine on iPhone again. I’ve reinstalled it. Still crashes.
Lovely design and idea but lacks robustness
This is a nice software. UI is good and the community is flourishing. Moving my 4000 notes from Evernote though has proven to be frustrating. The tags are nice but fiddly (if you delete a mother tag it deletes all bested tags) and the initial sync let's you guessing as what's going on, that's very frustrating. I hope the team can resolve those teething issues, some other parts of the software are lovely and it is no bloated.
Good but needs more
Overall happy with Bear but some further develop needed especially expanding Tag management options. As there is no folder method of organising notes, Bear is dependent on Tags for this function. E.g. My request would be to add to the selected notes function menu, the option to not only remove tags but add existing or new tags to all selected as well. Just imported about 800 notes from the green elephant but the task of Tag management to suit the Bear-based method is laborious and time consuming. However, overall is a great app.
The Best Note-Taking App
There is no app better than Bear for nite taking. It’s extremely simple and minimalistic, but not Bear-Boned (like Apple Notes). It has all the features you’ll need. I love how it has just tags, rather than tags and folders or other kinds fi groups. There’s no ned to have both, so the devs Judy chose one and stuck with it. It can have layerd notes as well, if you want. Notion has more features but is buggy and has way more features than a person needs, and the layout of uneccesaey, whereas Bear is just perfect and simple, and I never experience any bugs.
Organically beautiful and simple
I've been using Bear on/off since 2017 – it's so easy just to jot something down. I've subscribed again (subscribed on/off as a casual user) and I'm struck by how beautiful the themes are and app icons are and how beautiful my notes look. Just wanted to say thanks for putting the attention into that. The tags make it so simple to browse through notes from long ago too.
Perfect for me
This is by far the best app I have bought for my iPad in terms of the amount of pleasure I get from using it. It is so good! I have tried quite a few notes apps, but found they were either too complicated or too simple. To me, Bear is the perfect blend of simplicity and power. It just lets you get on with things. I think I’ve had to look up how to do two things. The rest of the time it has been obvious how it works. And it is deceptively capable. It’s not one of those apps that tries to do everything and that is a big plus in my view. I love how it looks as well. I love this app to bits!! If only there were more apps like this!
Hopeless for Apple Watch
Nice app, but it doesn’t even download to the the watch. You simply cannot install this app no matter how hard you try. Pretty useless really!
App problem - Can’t contact support
There is an issue with tables in the the paid app. The cursor moves to the left of table spontaneously while you type below. Then continuously jumps to random spots.
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App Info
- Category
- Productivity
- Publisher
- Shiny Frog
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Chinese
- Recent release
- 2.4.4 (4 days ago )
- Released on
- Nov 2, 2016 (8 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, China, Russia, United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Canada, France, Australia, Brazil, Taiwan, Italy, India, Ukraine, Mexico, Poland, Netherlands, Spain, Türkiye, Sweden, Switzerland, Vietnam, Philippines, Hong Kong SAR China, Czechia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Chile, Austria, Portugal, Indonesia, Hungary, Belgium, Romania, Norway, New Zealand, Finland, Ireland, Argentina, Colombia, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Greece, Slovakia, South Africa, Peru, Israel, Croatia, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Estonia, Pakistan, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Egypt, Luxembourg, Dominican Republic, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Malta, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Ecuador, Lebanon, Algeria, North Macedonia, Kuwait, Iceland, Bahrain, Nepal, Brunei, Tunisia, Madagascar
- Last Updated
- 1 month ago
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