Bear - Markdown Notes Software
Company Name: Shiny Frog Ltd.
About: Shiny Frog is an app studio that specialises in the web design and development of high quality apps
for Mac and iOS devices.
Headquarters: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Bear Overview
What is Bear? Bear is a notes app that is designed for writers, lawyers, chefs, teachers, engineers, students, parents, and more. It offers quick organization, editing tools, and export options to help users write quickly and share anywhere while preserving their privacy with encryption. The app has won several awards, including the 2017 Apple Design Award and the App Store App of the Year 2016.
Features
- Flexible yet simple writing tools that stay out of the way
- Encryption of individual notes and locking of Bear with Face/Touch ID (Bear Pro required)
- Siri and iOS Shortcuts integration for easy note creation
- Apple Watch support for dictation and appending to recent notes
- Over a dozen themes for the perfect writing space (Bear Pro required)
- Support for sketching, drawing, and Apple Pencil (and other styli)
- App extension for grabbing images, text, files, and clipping web pages
- Quick organization with tasks and #tags
- Cross-Note Links for building a body of work and referencing other notes
- Custom icons and emoji autocomplete for adding style to notes
- Multiple export options, including HTML, PDF, DOCX, MD, JPG, EPUB, and TextBundle (some require Bear Pro)
- Spotlight search and keyword highlights for finding notes quickly
- Search Triggers for focusing on specific types of notes
- Syncing between Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch with Bear Pro
- Private notes that are not visible to the app developers
- Backup and restore of all notes with just a couple of taps
- Bear Pro subscription for enabling all features on all devices, including encryption, locking, syncing, advanced export, and more.
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Product Details and Description of
this app is a focused, flexible notes app used by writers, lawyers, chefs, teachers, engineers, students, parents and more! this app has quick organisation, editing tools, and export options to help you write quickly and share anywhere and preserve your privacy with encryption. 2017 Apple Design Award App Store App of the Year 2016 “My journaling app of choice is this app” - Kit Eaton, New York Times *WRITE YOUR WAY* with flexible yet simple tools - Tools stay out of your way so you can just write - **NEW** Encrypt individual notes and lock this app with Face/Touch ID (this app Pro required. Learn more below) - Easily create notes with Siri and iOS Shortcuts - Use Apple Watch to dictate and append to recent notes - Pick from over a dozen themes for the perfect writing space (requires this app Pro. Learn more below) - Support for sketching, drawing, and Apple Pencil (and other styli) - Grab images, text, files, and clip web pages with this app’s app extension *ORGANIZE QUICKLY* with tasks and #tags - Add #tags, #multi-word tags# and even #multiple/nested/tags anywhere in a note for quick organization - Add tasks to notes to stay on track - Archive notes to keep them around, but out of your way - Use Cross-Note Links to build a body of work, reference other notes, and more - Pick custom icons to help important tags stand out in the Sidebar - Use emoji autocomplete to add style to your tasks, journals, headings, and more *SHARE ANYWHERE* - Multiple export options including HTML, PDF, DOCX, MD, JPG, EPUB, and TextBundle (some export options require this app Pro) - Copy part of a note in a variety of formats to paste elsewhere - Easily share your notes to any third party app including Wordpress, Mail, Sparkle, etc... *SEARCH ALL THE THINGS* - Use Spotlight to search your notes from anywhere - Quickly find what you need with keyword highlights - Focus on specific types of notes with powerful Search Triggers. Try @task to find all notes with todos. *USE IT EVERYWHERE* with sync in this app Pro - Sync your notes between Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch - Notes sync via iCloud, not our servers - A single in-app subscription works across all your devices *YOUR NOTES, NOT OURS* - this app is private at its core: We cannot see your notes, tags, or anything else - **NEW** Encrypt individual notes with a password that is entirely private to you (this app Pro required) - **NEW** Lock this app with Face/Touch ID (this app Pro required) - Export notes to portable formats like Plain Text, Markdown, and TextBundle - With a this app Pro subscription, your notes sync via iCloud, not our servers - Backup and restore all notes with just a couple taps *ENABLE ALL FEATURES WITH this app PRO* One low, yearly subscription enables a variety of features on all your devices and keeps the this app hugs coming. - **NEW** Encrypt individual notes with a password that is entirely private to you - **NEW** Lock this app with Face/Touch ID - Sync notes between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud - Advanced export to PDF, HTML, DOCX, JPG - Over a dozen gorgeous app themes to help you create the best writing environment - More themes are on the way - Keep the this app updates coming $1.49 monthly, $14.99 annually (save 18%) ---- --- Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. After purchase, manage your subscriptions in App Store Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. $1.49 monthly, includes a one week free trial $14.99 annually, includes a one month free trial ---- --- this [email protected] Twitter: BearNotesApp Reddit: reddit.com/r/BearApp Facebook: BearNotes Instagram: BearNotesApp Privacy Policy: http://www.this app-writer.com/privacy/ Terms of Service: http://www.this app-writer.com/terms/
Top Reviews
By hcgchica
SO glad I found this app!!
Oh my gosh- coming from the apple notes app, this is like a dream come true. I was getting so frustrated with the apple notes app once portions of my notes just started DISSAPEARING- yes, that’s right- paragraphs and paragraphs of text just started not being there. So frustrating!! So I went on google to research best notes app for ipad/iPhone and came across this app- it’s FANTASTIC!!! The hashtag that makes folders? Brilliant. The check mark boxes for to do lists- that I can actually check off and have a strike through go through that to-do line item? Brilliant. I LOVE this app. So glad the other one started losing my data so I could find something WAY better- the this app app. Everyone should use this it’s awesome. I upgraded to the $15 plan per year which is nothing for what it achieves for me with the cross syncing with my devices- I’m constantly switching between my pad and phone so that’s a must for me. Thank you guys you really thought about things intuitively for your users. You guys rocks.
By hendricksmd
It’s like gravity
I think this app is the perfect level of robust, and simplicity as far as note apps go. I have been obsessed with trying to find the perfect writing and notes app and I just keep coming back to this app. The main drawback for me is that I have a windows PC as a gaming computer that I can’t run it on being an iOS/macOS exclusive but they supposedly have a web interface in the works. I switched back to Evernote for a while just because of the cross platform issue but I just felt myself missing this app and the syntax highlighting and simple tag and search system and I decided to stop fighting it and just enjoy it. Because it’s so great and the team is very transparent about their plans and care about their users. When I was spending time switching apps from this app to Evernote or OneNote, this app was always the easy one to work with when exporting and importing as well. It’s just a pleasure to use all around for me. Minor complaint that I have is when sharing on IOS to the app, it’s very difficult for me to put the new note in a specific place. I can just tag it in a location so I can find it later but I think little pop up share window could have some more navigation options. Thanks devs and designers for the steady quality updates and this wonderful simple app! Maybe one day you’ll find some way to make this cross platform or have a good web interface but I like it enough to stay.
By Jared White
The best note taking app
If you just want to jot down quick bits of info and save them into an archive you largely forget about, Apple Notes works just fine. If you want to journal and keep a diary of your life, maybe give Day One a try. But if you want to take notes, write in robust Markdown syntax, save outlines and concepts, refer back to past insights, cross-reference relevant topics, organize everything by incredibly flexible tags, and import and export documents with ease: then this app is hands-down the best tool for the job. I've tried a ton of different editors over the years and used a variety of different storage systems. Only this app has proved to be the most flexible, visually appealing, and performant for everything I need out of a Markdown-based document workflow (on both iOS and Mac). I'm slowly weaning myself of all other note/writing apps and making this app the center of my content world. I highly recommend you investigate doing the same!
