Bear is an elegant and easy-to-use Markdown writing software that helps you capture inspiration, write conveniently, and plan to-dos, keeping your life organized.
From taking notes to planning your day, from organizing thoughts to creating tables, making lists and tasks, freewriting, connecting notes, or writing an entire book, there are endless possibilities waiting for you to explore. Whether you are a writer, lawyer, chef, CEO, teacher, doctor, engineer, student, or parent – everyone is using it! Getting started is incredibly simple – no need to even register or create an account. Just open Bear, create a new note, and start recording freely.
Elegant, Simple, Powerful, Secure
- Helps you focus on writing without any tool distractions
- Clip web pages and other content via Bear’s app extensions
- Redesigned info panel now includes table of contents and backlinks
- Supports all text formats, including right-to-left languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian
- Easily create notes with Siri and Shortcuts
- Your notes belong only to you – privacy is a core value of Bear: we cannot see your notes, tags, or any other information
Flexible Markdown Language
- Plain text – easy to migrate between different applications
- Preserve styles like bold, italic, strikethrough, links, tables, and more Markdown formats
- Combine multiple special formats like bold and underline (even in headings)
- Hide Markdown for a purer reading experience
- Use wiki links to connect notes and build your own personal wiki or knowledge management tool
Efficient Organization with #Tags, To-Dos, and More
- Add #tags, #tag words, or even multiple nested tags anywhere in your notes for quick organization
- Pin important tags to the sidebar
- Use tag icons to highlight important tags in the sidebar
- Add to-dos and easily view all notes containing to-do items
- Collapse content that needs to be hidden for better focus
Easy Sharing
- Export notes as plain text, Markdown, TextBundle, Bear Note, and Rich Text Format
- Export notes as HTML, DocX, PDF, JPG, and ePub formats
- Easily share your notes to any third-party app via the Share menu
Deep Search
- Search your notes from anywhere using Spotlight
- Search text in images and PDFs (requires Bear Pro subscription)
- Search for specific types of notes with powerful special search options such as @todo, @images, and @yesterday
Create Your Comfort Zone
- Choose from nearly 30 themes for a perfect writing experience in both light and dark modes
- Select the app icon that best suits your personality
- Customize fonts for text, headings, and code
- Freely set line height, line width, paragraph spacing, and paragraph indentation specially designed for Chinese
