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 much more. 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.​

“My journaling app of choice is Bear” – Kit Eaton, New York Times
​* 2017 Apple Design Award
* 2016 App Store App of the Year
* Editors’ choice for 7 consecutive years
* Most of our parents love it

## BEAUTIFUL. SIMPLE. POWERFUL. PRIVATE

– Tools stay out of your way so you can just write
– Clip web pages and other content with app extension
– The redesigned Info Panel now with Table of Contents and Backlinks
– Support for all the scripts including RTL languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian
– Easily create notes with Siri and Shortcuts
– Your notes, not ours – is private at its core: We cannot see your notes, tags, or anything else

## FLEXIBLE MARKDOWN

– Work in plain text – easy to move between apps
– Still use formatting like bold, italics, strikethrough, links, tables, and more with Markdown
– Combine text styles like bold and underline, even in headings
– Markdown hides for a clean reading experience
– Use WikiLinks to connect notes and build a personal wiki or knowledge management tool

## GET ORGANIZED with #tags, tasks, and more

– Add #tags, #multi-word tags# and even #multiple/nested/tags anywhere in a note for quick organization
– Pin important tags to the top of the Sidebar
– Make important tags stand out in the Sidebar with TagCons
– Add tasks to notes and easily view all notes that include tasks
– Fold sections to get them out of the way

## SHARING MADE EASY

​- Export notes to plain text, Markdown, TextBundle, note, and rich text
– Export notes to HTML, DocX, PDF, JPG, and ePub (Pro required)
– Easily share your notes to any third-party app with the Share Sheet

​## SEARCH FAR AND WIDE

– Use Spotlight to search your notes from anywhere
– Search for text inside photos and PDFs (Bear Pro required)
– Focus on specific types of notes with powerful Special Searches like @todo, @images, and @yesterday​

## CREATE YOUR COZY SPACE

* Pick from nearly 30 themes for the perfect writing space in both Light and Dark Mode (Bear Pro required)
* Choose an app icon that speaks to your personality (Bear Pro required)
* Set your own fonts for plain text, headings, and code
* Set line height and width, paragraph spacing, and more

## GET MORE WITH BEAR PRO

One subscription enables a variety of features on all your devices and keeps the Bear hugs coming.
– Sync notes between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud
– Encrypt individual notes with a password that is entirely private to you
– Lock Bear with Face/Touch ID
– Export to more formats including HTML, DocX, PDF, JPG, and ePub
– Search for text inside images and PDFs in Bear notes
– Over 30 beautiful app themes & app icons

Compatibility: macOS 12.4 and later ARM , x86 (64-bit)
Homepage https://bear.app/

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