Bear is an elegant and easy-to-use Markdown writing software that helps you capture inspiration, write conveniently, and plan to-dos, keeping your life in order.
From taking notes to planning your day, from organizing your thoughts to creating tables, making lists and tasks, writing freely, connecting notes, or even writing an entire book, there are endless possibilities waiting for you to explore. Writers, lawyers, chefs, CEOs, teachers, doctors, engineers, students, parents - they're all using it! It's extremely easy to get started - no registration or account creation needed. All you need to do is open Bear, create a new note, and start writing.
"Bear is my top choice for a journaling app" - Kit Eaton, The New York Times
* 2017 Apple Design Award
* 2016 App Store App of the Year
* Included in Editor's Choice for 7 consecutive years
* Loved by most of our parents
## Elegant, Simple, Powerful, Secure
- Helps you focus on writing without being distracted by any tools
- Sketch ideas on the iPad with a stretchable canvas and Apple Pencil (and other styluses) for creative expression
- Clip web pages and other content through Bear's app extensions
- The redesigned info panel has added table of contents and backlink features
- Dictate with Apple Watch and append to your most recent note
- Supports all text formats, including right-to-left languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian
- Create notes easily with Siri and Shortcuts
- Your notes are yours alone - privacy is at the core of Bear: we can't see your notes, tags, or any other information
## Flexible Markdown Language
- Plain text - easy to transfer between different apps
- Preserves styles like bold, italic, strikethrough, links, tables, or more Markdown formats
- Combine multiple special formats like bold and underline (even in headings)
- Hide Markdown for a purer reading experience
- Connect notes with wiki links to build a personal wiki or knowledge management tool
## Efficient Organization with #Tags#, To-dos, etc.
- Add #tags#, #tokenized tags#, or even #multiple/nested/tags# anywhere in your notes for quick note organization
- Pin important tags to the top of the sidebar
- Use tag icons to highlight important tags in the sidebar
- Add to-dos and easily view all notes containing to-dos
- Collapse content you want to hide to improve focus
## Easy Sharing
- Export notes as plain text, Markdown, TextBundle, Bear notes, and rich text formats
- Export notes as HTML, DocX, PDF, JPG, and ePub formats (requires Bear Pro subscription)
- Easily share your notes to any third-party app through the share menu
## Deep Search
- Search your notes from anywhere using Spotlight
- Search text in images and PDFs (requires Bear Pro subscription)
- Search for specific types of notes with powerful special search options like @to-do, @image, and @yesterday
## Create Your Comfort Zone
* Choose from nearly 30 themes for a perfect writing experience in either light or dark mode (requires Bear Pro subscription)
* Select the app icon that best suits your personality (requires Bear Pro subscription)
* Customize fonts for text, headings, and code
* Freely set line height, line width, paragraph spacing, and a paragraph indent specially designed for Chinese
## Subscribe to Bear Pro to Unlock More Powerful Features
Simply subscribe to Bear Pro to unlock various premium features on all your devices and get unlimited bear hugs! Supporting Bear helps us keep pushing out version updates and more new features for you.
- Sync notes between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud
- Set a completely private password to encrypt individual notes
- Lock Bear with Face/Touch ID
- More export formats, including HTML, DocX, PDF, JPG, and ePub
- Search text in images and PDFs
- 20+ beautiful app themes and app icons
$2.99 per month
$29.99 per year
Both plans offer a 14-day free trial period
