Bear - Markdown Notes

Name: Bear - Markdown Notes
Rating: 4.7 (6842 reviews)
Author: Shiny Frog Ltd.

By: Shiny Frog Ltd. App

Clean text editor for focus

Overview

Version:

2.9

Last updated: 2026-07-16

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

(6,842) 3 new ratings

Version:

2.9 Last updated: 2026-07-16

Version code:

888340683

Creation date:

2016-11-02

Compatible devices:

Size:

184.36MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-19

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 22,376 ▼ 516

Other rankings

#3 in Neat Notetakers

#11 in Paths to Productivity

#20 in Do More With Apple Watch

#23 in Level Up Your Life

#19 in text editor keyword 15 ▼ 4

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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

Sure it looks "clean" at first but it automatically adds markups that show every time you try to edit a word. So if you delete part of it you end up with bunch of asterisks to delete. That's not clean. Would prefer no markups at all. And having to pull up a secondary keyboard for every formatting task gets tiresome and kills work flow. Why not a long press menu for frequent formatting functions? And can't select more than one cell in tables. Honestly would rather go back to apple notes if wasn't so slow on my older device.