Bear

Markdown notes you’ll love

Editor's Choice 2020

Design Award 2017

App of the year 2016

Write naturally

Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown note taking app to capture, write, and organize your life.

Seamless Markdown

Work your way with text, photos, tables, and todo lists, all in the same note
Easily organize notes and projects with flexible tags
Format notes with simple Markdown that adapts to any situation

Organize easily

Powerful tools to take notes, plan your week, write a book, or even build a wiki
Fast, native apps that keep pace with your imagination, online and off
Send notes to others, export to many formats, and share ideas with the world—if you want

Universal beauty

Winner of the coveted Apple Design Award
A polished, minimal interface stays out of your way
Beautiful themes offer the perfect, cozy space to work

PRO

Private security

Your notes are between you and iCloud—
we can't see anything
Encrypt notes for an extra layer of protection from prying eyes

And so much more

Bear is packed with advanced features that reveal themselves naturally once you dive in.

Export more. Export notes into more formats: PDF, HTML, DOCX, JPG. PRO
OCR Search. Search for text inside photos and PDFs—whether in a single note or across all of them. PRO
View more at a glance. Resize or crop your images. Look beyond URLs with rich media previews for links and PDFs.
Tags that pop. Choose from over 250 icons to help tags stand out. Pin important tags for easy access.
Outline with focus. Structure notes with headings. Use folding to focus on a section and hide the others.

Resize and crop images

Keep what you need, leave out the rest.

iCloud sync

PRO

Your notes stay up-to-date across all your devices, automatically.

Sketch your notes

Insert sketches anywhere in your note, inline with your text, photos, and attachments.

Draw with your Apple Pencil or finger, and edit your creations at any time.

Price

Help support further development and gain access to great extra features

Free

Compared to other apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, these features can easily cost $80 per year or more. We aim to set a fair price for Bear Pro to ensure regular updates and future development.

PRO

A 7 day free trial, then $2.99/month

-15% $29.99/year