Can’t use the app anymore
Today updated the app on my iPhone: it crashes while ‘doing something’ with my database… So I lost everything! NOT NICE
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
- Monthly Pro subscription
- €2.99
- Yearly Pro subscription
- €34.99
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Yes, Bear is free to download, however it contains in-app purchases or subscription offerings.
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User Rating
4.64 out of 5
312 ratings in Netherlands
5 star
255
4 star
31
3 star
8
2 star
7
1 star
11
Ratings History
Bear Reviews
Where did it bring you? Back to me.
Used this as my main app in 2020-2022. Tried many different apps afterwards, from Apple notes, Noteplan, Obsidian, Notion, Things, Logseq, and others, thought about coding my own. I’m back and paying.
Very good. But needs end to end encryption
Bear is great for writing, linking and retrieving notes. Export and sync work very well. But this app really needs E2EE with ADP, which so far the developers have not wanted to add, because it would mean people on very old iOS versions could not use the app. But in these times, really, we can’t trust companies like Apple with our encryption keys. This is why I am always on the lookout for alternatives.
Best markdown app with pencil support
Great minimal design.
Very good. Oddly priced
The 2.0 version is great. I abandoned 1.x at the time, but subscribed again now. The pricing scheme is like a bad joke though. Pay for a whole year instead of monthly, and save… 1 euro? Not funny.
All my notes are suddenly gone
Didn’t open the app for a while. All my notes from a project I worked on for 4 years are gone.
No Web Version
No web version is a show-stopper for me
Once great…
…but real improvements take way to long. Also using its own proprietary storage. Yes its markdown-based for writing and yes you can export notes, but it hardly integrates with other storage solutions so you basically lock your notes into the app. Solutions like Obsidian store notes securely as separate MD-files into your file system (your personal Apple file system is encrypted), which can be synced through iCloud (or any other more secure and flexible sync solution) and/or accessed edited by any other app you like. In my case DevonThink for storing, indexing and searching all kinda files and Scrivener for converting a bunch of notes to documents. The last significant update of Bear took also way to long and there is still no web version. In the meantime the subscription plan continued. So yes, it once was a great note-taking app, and for this single purpose it still is… but if you need an overall slim workflow it became way too limited. That’s why 5 => 2 stars. Exit.
Icons
Prachtig vormgegeven app. Fijn dat themes en icons nu van elkaar losgekoppeld zijn, maar ik vind de nieuwe kleur icons geen succes. Harde primaire kleuren. Weinig keuze. Ik mis de kleuren met wat meer nuance.
Feels slow
Sure there might be cool new features, but the app feels slow and unresponsive now. Wish I could go back to the previous version 1.0 Typing is a drag. Please fix.
Store Rankings
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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 (1 week 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, Belgium, Hungary, Romania, Norway, New Zealand, Ireland, Finland, Colombia, Argentina, Denmark, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Greece, Slovakia, South Africa, Peru, Israel, Croatia, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Estonia, Pakistan, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Egypt, Dominican Republic, Luxembourg, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Malta, Ecuador, Cyprus, Lebanon, Algeria, North Macedonia, Kuwait, Iceland, Bahrain, Nepal, Tunisia, Brunei, Madagascar
- Last Updated
- 4 days ago
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