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

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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.

Bear Reviews

The community submitted 34 reviews to tell us what they like about Bear, what Bear can do better, and more.

4.6

Based on 34 reviews

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Reviewers largely praise Bear for being fast, polished, and easy to write in, with Markdown, exports, backlinks, tables, shortcuts support, and flexible hashtag organization repeatedly called out as useful for everything from quick capture to long-form drafting. Many say it stays simple without feeling limiting, especially on Apple devices. The clearest complaint is platform lock-in: users on Windows or Android, or anyone wanting a web app, feel shut out. A smaller set also mentions slow sync, copy quirks, and hashtags becoming cluttered.