Bear - Markdown Notes

Write naturally

Published by: Shiny Frog
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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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User Rating

4.8 out of 5

5 ratings in Iceland

Ratings History

Bear Reviews

Great app, so much better than Notes

FloridaSaint on

United States

I’ve made use of the Notes app for years. But its lack of many useful formatting features, and its horrible misuse of Gmail for its cloud storage, incented me to look for an alternative. Bear was just what I was looking for. A free app with great formatting, easy grouping through tagging, and rock solid performance. I now use Bear for almost all my note taking, and it’s my go to app for anything I want to record in free-floating text. Thanks Bear!

Beautiful

Ritesh92 on

United States

The UI is clean and easy to use. Organizing notes by tags is super powerful

Simply the best notes app

bbbb37532 on

United States

Bear is simple, clean, intuitive, and powerful. The tagging system is so incredibly robust, sync is fast and reliable, and export options are fantastic. Can't recommend it enough! Has just enough features but they're hidden until you need them, always a clean and minimal space to produce text on. Love Bear!

Good job

a-n-d-yy on

United States

Hi developer,yes im talking to you. The one with bags under their eyes and probably lack of sleep,for long I was looking for an app that help me as a writer,and I think I finally found it,thanks for existing and I hope both sides of your pillow are cold every night, if you are a writer,don’t be Carried away by the bad reviews,this app offers everything a writer like you and me could look for and their paid options are not overwhelming,more like optional. (Sorry Mr/Ms/Mrs.developer there’s no budget right now )

Would appreciate more list styles

有节操有本命 on

United States

Can we have an option for dashed list? I don’t like bulleted or numbered lists.

It is honestly not much better than Notes.

🐺🐟 The Lupine Fish 🐟🐺 on

United States

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.)

Happy Switcher from Obsidian

Windy2676 on

United States

I'm a long-time Obsidian user who finally got tired of how poorly their app works on iPad. I tried a few alternatives, and Bear ended up being the perfect fit - a note editor that focuses on content, and gives me the flexibility to organize my library however I want. It's fast, even with hundreds of notes, and works great with modern iPad features, such as split view and keyboard support. I highly recommend this app, it's definitely worth a try

Hope can sync for free

Ghhedd765 on

United States

Hope can sync for free

BEST NOTES APP IN THE WORLD!!!!

Theojbh on

United States

This app is literally the best notes app! I like how it’s on Apple Watch, so I can directly write notes on go, now and then, and the cool fact that you can the # on any note. But- When I ask Siri to add a bear note, it doesn’t work. Is there a way to fix this? Anyway, this app is not only for notes, but also for To-Do’s. So this app deserves a good 10\10.😁👍

Lost functionality

99bb on

United States

Removing the search long press functionality has made this app less useful and I’ve started to move more and more of my usage away from Bear.

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