Bear

Bear

a beautiful, simple Markdown note-taking app

4.8
71 reviews

1K followers

Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown note taking 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.
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Bear 2

Bear 2

Simple, powerful, private Markdown notes
Bear 2 was ranked #3 of the day for July 12th, 2023
Bear 2 is our largest update ever to your beautiful, personal space to write naturally. Our advanced Markdown support and refreshed, minimal UI empower you to capture and create notes even easier with 20+ all-new features like tables, Backlinks, ToC, and more.
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Danilo Bonardi
Hello everyone! I’m Danilo, one of the co-founders and lead developers at Shiny Frog. After our incredibly successful launch of the original Bear notes app on Product Hunt years ago, we are overjoyed to be back with Bear 2! 🐻‍❄️ What is Bear? Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown notes app to capture, write, and organize your life. It has quick organization, editing tools, and export options to help you write and share anywhere, and it preserves your privacy with encryption. Getting started couldn’t be faster—no signup and no account. Just open a note and write naturally. ★ 2016 App Store App of the Year ★ 2017 Apple Design Award ★ App Store “Editors Choice” for 7 consecutive years 🐻‍❄️ What makes Bear unique? Say goodbye to chaotic note organizing, feature-bloated interfaces, and cluttered notes apps. Bear is designed for a seamless writing experience. Bear's four main values are: ✨ BEAUTIFUL: Elegant, clean and modern UX/UI design. The original Bear won an Apple Design Award in 2017! 🏷️ FLEXIBLE: A flexible tag system to organize notes. Friendly working with other apps. A wide range of export options 💪 POWERFUL: Native app. Blazing fast even with long text note. Fast sync using CloudKit. 100% Markdown support 🔏 SAFE: We have no servers and collect no data on your notes (only anonymous crashlog). End-to-end encryption for notes available with Bear Pro 🐻‍❄️ What’s new in Bear 2? Bear 2 is our largest update ever including 20+ all-new features like tables, Backlinks, ToC, and more. The journey to Bear 2 has been long, but we’re thrilled with how it turned out. Make sure to check it out on our iOS and macOS App Store pages! 🐻‍❄️ Thank you for your support! We sincerely want to thank everyone for all your support, and a huge thank you to our amazing hunter @chrismessina for all the help along the way. We are all ears for any feedback or thoughts the Product Hunt community has on Bear 2. ​ Thanks again! Danilo Bonardi 🐻❤️🚀
Danilo Bonardi
@chrismessina @ianwdj Everything about the editor is so heavily interconnected that it's hard for me to be very specific. I can tell some CommonMark edge cases are particularly tricky and time-consuming, but most of our focus was on parsing performances of a document and while writing.
Tatiana Stronskaya
@trix180 seems like a great product, congrats on the Bear 2 launch!
Danilo Bonardi
@tatiana_stronskaya Thank You Tatiana
Hui Shu
Long time Bear fan. Just tried the new Bear 2 update today. I love the new features (hidden markdown, table support). My notes are looking even better now! As a productivity geek myself, I try out many note-taking apps: Notion, Obsidian, etc. Bear is my daily driver. It's simple, reliable, fast and beautiful. Forget every other note-taking app and just use Bear.
Dane Brodke
This app is as close to perfection as any app I've ever used. Elegant, super fast, polished, just an absolute joy to use. I've used this since I graduated from medical school 5 years ago. 1629 notes later and all my work and life is catalogued in Bear -- using it right now to study for my final boards exam in two days. The v2 update is spectacular --- tables, image resizing, backlinks, everything you could want. The developers are true craftspeople who have created something remarkable.