Bear - Markdown Notes

Name: Bear - Markdown Notes
Rating: 4.7 (6828 reviews)
Author: Shiny Frog Ltd.

By: Shiny Frog Ltd.

Clean text editor for focus

Features & Capabilities

Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown 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 more. Bear is private by design—no signup and no account. Just open a note and write naturally. It supports WikiLinks, #tags, tasks, backlinks, Apple Pencil support, Siri and Shortcuts, and iCloud sync with Bear Pro. Export options include plain text, Markdown, TextBundle, Bear notes, HTML, DocX, PDF, JPG, and ePub, with Bear Pro unlocking additional formats and features.

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By:

Shiny Frog Ltd.

Rating:

4.70

(6,828) 4 new ratings

Version:

2.8.2 Last updated: 2026-05-28

Version code:

886186966

Creation date:

2016-11-02

Compatible devices:

Size:

179.46MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 22,118 ▼ 15

Other rankings

#3 in The Best Note-Taking Apps

#8 in Essential Productivity Apps

#23 in Level Up Your Life

#18 in text editor keyword 18

#27 in note keyword 43

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For Developers

Monetize with App Pass Boost with Extension Booster

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Developed by:

Shiny Frog Ltd.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bear-markdown-notes/id1016366447

Website:

https://bear.app

User Reviews

Bear - Markdown Notes is widely praised for its elegant UI, fast performance, and reliable syncing across Apple devices, along with strong Markdown support and tagging. Reviewers highlight its depth of features and distraction-free writing. Common downsides are post-update bugs (rendering, data loss, copy/paste), a tag-centric organization model with no folders, and cross-platform limitations (no Windows/web app) plus a clunky mobile editing experience.

Pros

Beautiful, intuitive UI/UX across Apple devices.
Fast, reliable performance with smooth, consistent syncing.
Comprehensive Markdown support with easy formatting and export options (LaTeX support).
Powerful tagging and organizational capabilities (easy navigation and search).
Feature-rich and versatile with an expanding toolkit (TOC, backlinks, todos, etc.)

Cons

Bugs and instability after updates, including rendering failures, data loss, and broken copy/paste.
Tag-based organization only; no folders or nested folders—limiting structural organization for some users.
No Windows app or web app; cross-platform access is limited and many users want Windows/web support.
Mobile editing UX is cumbersome (heavy formatting menu and keyboard toolbar) and can feel slow on iPhone.

Recent reviews

I was looking for an Evernote alternative where I could use tags, and this is perfect. I both like to write and store recipes using tags for season, type, occasion etc. The support for nested tags is much appreciated, and their Pro plan is very reasonable. Not much is paywalled (it’s just cloud features, themes, and search), so give it a try!

by Sm*****, 2026-05-21

It’s almost perfect, it won’t render math or PDFs or anything, it was working, the update broke it I love how it looks but the exporting and rendering are pretty fundamental and I feel like it should really be able to do more, like why not also have rich text as an option and if it’s only markdown then it’s a pretty high priority that it should do markdown literally flawlessly and it doesn’t Hope it gets fixed asap If still recommend it but with warnings and if there were anything else better this app could easily lose to that There are so few options for anything like this it’s pretty mind blowing

by Ta*****, 2026-04-22

Expressly states data can be used for beta testing and worst of all the testing is done with what is quite arguably the least privacy conscious company of the 21st century: Microsoft. Not to be outdone, the rest of the policy is extremely vague but lends itself to the interpretation that absent written notice provided to either the developer or applicable authorities OR both (language isn’t clear and would need to dive deeper), you have absolutely no it rly zero expectation of privacy here. In a market with 50 other competitors, this isn’t the way to do business IMO. Massive wasted opportunity here