

Bear
93 likes
Bear is a beautiful and flexible writing app for note-taking and prose, both on the go for iOS devices and for the Mac OS desktop.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
Italy
EU
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
Features
Bear News & Activities
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Recent News
- POX published news article about BearBear 2.4 adds attachment encryption, tag-specific pinning, and smart to-do sorting
Shiny Frog has released Bear 2.4 for macOS and iOS, introducing several powerful updates to its Mar...
- POX published news article about BearBear introduces a read-only mode and 4 new themes for enhanced note-taking experience
Bear has released version 2.3.11 of its Markdown note-taking application for macOS and iOS, featuri...
- Fla published news article about BearBear 2.3 update: multi-color gighlighter, iOS 18 icons, and more
Bear 2.3 has arrived with exciting features and improvements. Users can now enjoy a multi-color hig...
Recent activities
- POX added Bear as alternative to Quick Scrap Note
- flounderingeel added Bear as alternative to TriliumNext
- dchestnykh added Bear as alternative to IWL: Smarter Writing
- UniqueGo added Bear as alternative to Minimo Notes
- POX added Bear as alternative to Notedrafts
What is Bear?
Bear information
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- Updated May 19, 2025
- 4.69 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
It's a very beautiful app with Markdown support and export to PDF.
there are better alternatives for Mac users
how it just likes makes you feel welcome
Only one similar app in Andoid - Butterfly I can say that as user, who use Bear a lol.
Bear is an awesome choice for Apple enthusiasts. I love the watch app for a quick and dirty note. The iPhone app and the Mac app all synced and good to go.
I am amazed that they have the audacity to charge for plain text notes!! May be Mac users are more gullible. Windows users will never pay for plain text notes.
It's abundantly clear you haven't given Bear much of a try. First of all, Bear is free. The (very affordable) paid version has additional features that cost the developer to maintain. Secondly, it has features I've not found in any other app, especially not on Windows or Android (unfortunately, because I use both) — not the least of which are inline tagging, multi-word tagging, and nested tagging, and super-simple linking between notes. Several apps have some of these features (Evernote has nested tags and multi-word tags, but no inline tags). Yes, it doesn't have rich text, and that would be nice to have. But its more simple, elegant and user-friendly than the literally dozens of alternatives I've tried, and it has a feature set that isn't found anywhere else. Giving software a bad review because it doesn't fit your needs — without actually exploring all its features — and insulting its users for no reason to boot, now that's "audacity." No wait, that's just being a jerk.
[Edited by 100WattWalrus, December 22]
[Edited by 100WattWalrus, December 22]
Worth every penny of my subscription. It’s so beautiful, so comfy to use... I love this app, much better than Notes. Tags organization are great, includes encrypted notes option and syncing with a very affordable subscription.