Bear
a beautiful, simple Markdown note-taking app
4.6•34 reviews•1.1K followers
a beautiful, simple Markdown note-taking app
4.6•34 reviews•1.1K 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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The community submitted 34 reviews to tell us what they like about Bear, what Bear can do better, and more.
4.6
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Reviewers largely see Bear as a polished, fast Apple-first writing app that stays focused on notes, drafting, and lightweight knowledge management. They repeatedly praise its clean design, strong Markdown support, exports, backlinks, local storage, and simple tagging, with some saying it fits everything from study notes to meeting minutes and poetry drafts. The main frustration is platform support: users on Android, Windows, or the web say that gap is a dealbreaker. A founder of Smmall Cloud also credits Bear’s native, easy-to-use workflow for supporting their work.
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