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Bear

Bear is a Markdown note-taking app for Mac, iPad, and iPhone designed to capture, format, and organize notes with flexible tags, tables, and multimedia.

Bear's macOS interface showing the navigation sidebar with tags, note list with previews, and editor displaying a note with an image, formatted text, and a table.

About Bear

Bear is a Markdown note-taking application for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It enables users to compose notes using Markdown formatting alongside tables, photos, todo lists, and inline sketches. Notes are organized using tags with custom icons, headings, and section folding. The app operates online and offline, supporting note encryption and local storage. Users can export notes into formats like PDF, HTML, DOCX, and EPUB. A paid subscription adds iCloud synchronization across devices and OCR search for text inside photos and PDFs.

What you can do

  • Create and format notes using Markdown, with support for text, photos, tables, todo lists, and inline sketches.

  • Organize notes using flexible tags with customizable icons, structure documents with headings, and fold sections.

  • Protect sensitive information with note encryption and support for Apple's Advanced Data Protection.

  • Export notes into multiple file formats, including TXT, Markdown, TextBundle, RTF, PDF, JPG, HTML, DOCX, and EPUB.

  • Search for text within embedded images and PDF documents across single notes or the entire library.

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