Bear - Markdown Notes
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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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Yearly Pro subscription
$39.99
Monthly Pro subscription
$3.99

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User Rating

4.62 out of 5

762 ratings in Canada

5 star
632
4 star
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Do not use this app

Chalyse on

Since the recent update, the app has managed to lose written entries during general screen refreshes when switching between apps. The ability to start an entry and revisit the app between app screens wasn’t a problem until now. With several apps facing vulnerability issues due to Apple’s lack of awareness to exploits used against their customers it’s concerning that any app, especially one touting the best security measures preventing anyone including themselves from accessing personal data would allow for a vulnerability to present itself in this manner. This was a good app until this occurred but, will be expecting an update to bring the app back to the level it was at in terms of ensuring that entries will always remain secure. Run some tests on your software and ensure that entries will not be affected with the next update. Take into consideration as well that the app is running on a paid subscription with features that are an added benefit that doesn’t necessarily need to be used in securing data but, every single entry using the encryption method has to be checked now too to ensure they haven’t been deleted as well. It’s software. It isn’t always perfect but, at least the app developer (and other customers who may be experiencing similar if not the same problem) can be made alerted to the issue.

No LaTeX Support

dman1359 on

Seriously, no LaTeX support in 2024? Ridiculous. Seemed like a potential alternative to Obsidian, but nope…they decided that this app would not be for people who use math

Great App

Tiushhdg on

This app is way better than MS Word. It simplifies all of the features and also has cool options to turn it into HTML or a website coding for you. It as good instructions that are clear and easy to learn how to use the features. There are some issues with glitches, like I am having a problem with a gray bar appearing on every new note and can’t get rid of it. I don’t know how it got there. There’s also an issue when I double click on trying to select something in a note I am editing and it suddenly makes the not disappear and tells me to open a note or make a new one. Has a few issues but it’s pretty good.

Zzz

Carrotman434577 on

Keeps crashing

The app won’t synch on my ipad(update)

Ircaleonius on

Add the app for a while on my Apple watch and my Iphone and to be 100% it’s not that bad of an app I gave 1 star mostly because it doesn’t do anything better than the built in function and more importantly it doesn’t synch after I bought the pro subscription. My connection is good and the preference is turned on sooo yeah kinda bad. Great community with a lot of help from the users and the company they may have some problem since the last few update but you are in good hands with them !

The Journey Continues

byabike on

Bear’s been on a long journey, recently arriving at version 2, but it still has some travelling to do. The long trip pushed me (reluctantly) from Bear to Craft, and now that I am there that’s my standard of comparison. I remain a Bear fan (user interface unmatched) but until there is some rethinking, for example text collapsing/folding is difficult to make much use of, I just can’t justify the effort and time to return thousands of notes into Bear. For now I’ll stay a subscriber and check back optimistically on each update.

Buggy on iPad

Synecdokey on

If you like the floating keyboard like me, bear has a few bugs that are very annoying. I tried reporting, but the devs never even acknowledged my report

the best

philosopherdog on

so much attention to detail. v2 is here!!!!!

Woohoo for v2 updates!

Drew Lyall on

The new editing keyboard is a GAME-CHANGER! Bravo!

Beautiful!!

WayneCaissie on

Bear 2.0. It seemed like a long wait but it was worth it. Beautiful!!! A lot of people were screaming for tables which is great, but for me it was PDF previews. I feel like I did when I first discovered Bear a few years ago. I’ve only had a few hours with it so far as the Beta was always closed so I’ll add more as I use it more. But so far it looks wonderful. Great work! I loved the app

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App Info

Publisher
Shiny Frog Ltd.
Languages
German, Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, French, Korean, Japanese
Recent version
2.2.2 (1 month ago )
Released on
Nov 2, 2016 (7 years ago )
Last updated
1 month ago