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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What’s New
Version 2.1.8
* Replaced the “search” menu item previously available by long pressing Bear’s icon on the home screen with “Scan Documents”
* Preventing the dismissal of the search panel when showing the replace field with no search term
* Enabled ⌘G and ⇧⌘G on iPadOS > 16 in the Editor Search Panel
* Correctly selecting the Label text in the Link Edit Panel when it has emojis inside
* Correctly showing the Editor when changing the orientation of the iPhone while using the camera to add a picture to the note
* Fixed the `Add New Note` button when used while a search is active
* Moving the caret on the side of the ToDo checkbox on tap, to prevent automatic iOS scroll to the current caret position
* Fixed the ISO 8601 title for new notes option
* Fixed issue with the @date special search
* Fixed crash concerning the OCR engine
* Fixed web clipper edge case concerning non-HTML files
* Fixed copy of note links when multiple notes are selected
* Fixed note styling for some edge cases causing crashes
* Fixed some keyboard issues on iPadOS
* Fixed background app crashes
* A set YAML properties are now part of the ePub exporter: type, subject, source, rights, publisher, language, format, creator, and description.
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.
Super Brilliant and Exciting. Versatile and Brave.
So, before I wrote this I thought I’d have a look at the one star reviews because I wanted to see what it is that I am not seeing, where is the broken parts? It might be that BEAR have taken on board what people have said, because there is now a one off payment for the pro version so that’s some of these negatives already striked out. I find their Twitter team to be charming, responsive and super fun so the complaints about tech support are confusing to me. Other than that, people are marking this down for not being Apple Notes/Evernote/Day One [delete as applicable]. It’s not any of them. It doesn’t say it is. When you read the blurb, nowhere does it say “we are taking on the establishment head on”. So if you are expecting that then you will be disappointed.
If you are looking for a simple, easy to use, forever evolving, versatile, exciting note app then you will love this. You can have multi layer tags - for example Todo and then under that ‘to buy’, ‘to blog’, ‘to pack’ whatever. It syncs across devices instantly. If you create something with a tick list it will show you how far through your ticks you’ve got. Having used all the established names in the past I’ve got to say that this takes the best of all of them and makes it better. Multiple notebooks? Check. Copy off safari? Yup. Headings, fonts, lists? Oh yes. I love it, and I am super proud to be along for the journey of BEAR.
It’s probably the best productivity app you will buy…
I’m always on the search for the ultimate productivity tool. It’s a competitive sector and many ultimately disappoint. I tried Bear when it first came out, then left it. Recently I’ve returned and realised that Bear is that ultimate tool.
The combination of Markdown, iCloud sync and one payment across all platforms, allied to a beautiful interface and presentation of your work and ease of use makes this one of the most useful apps you can buy.
I’m not a big fan of subscription services but the price of the Pro subscription for all that flexibility does make it worthwhile.
I’ve just taken on a small admin job along side my normal work. It came with a cheap, plastic PC laptop and years of MS Word files and no particular organisation. I’ve started to use Bear to make some sense out of the chaos and move from Word to Markdown as the default format, exporting to PDF for documents which need to be seen externally. Putting one of the original Word documents side by side with the equivalent Bear version almost makes me laugh. How much of the world of work can put up with such archaic ugliness. Bear stands head and shoulders above. Brilliant app and lots more potential to come, I’m sure.
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Information
- Provider
- Shiny Frog Ltd.
- Size
- 73.9 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.