Bear
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Write Naturally
Chris Messina
Bear 2 — Simple, powerful, private Markdown notes
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Bear 2 is our largest update ever to your beautiful, personal space to write naturally. Our advanced Markdown support and refreshed, minimal UI empower you to capture and create notes even easier with 20+ all-new features like tables, Backlinks, ToC, and more.
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Danilo Bonardi
Hello everyone! I’m Danilo, one of the co-founders and lead developers at Shiny Frog. After our incredibly successful launch of the original Bear notes app on Product Hunt years ago, we are overjoyed to be back with Bear 2! 🐻‍❄️ What is Bear? Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown notes app to capture, write, and organize your life. It has quick organization, editing tools, and export options to help you write and share anywhere, and it preserves your privacy with encryption. Getting started couldn’t be faster—no signup and no account. Just open a note and write naturally. ★ 2016 App Store App of the Year ★ 2017 Apple Design Award ★ App Store “Editors Choice” for 7 consecutive years 🐻‍❄️ What makes Bear unique? Say goodbye to chaotic note organizing, feature-bloated interfaces, and cluttered notes apps. Bear is designed for a seamless writing experience. Bear's four main values are: ✨ BEAUTIFUL: Elegant, clean and modern UX/UI design. The original Bear won an Apple Design Award in 2017! 🏷️ FLEXIBLE: A flexible tag system to organize notes. Friendly working with other apps. A wide range of export options 💪 POWERFUL: Native app. Blazing fast even with long text note. Fast sync using CloudKit. 100% Markdown support 🔏 SAFE: We have no servers and collect no data on your notes (only anonymous crashlog). End-to-end encryption for notes available with Bear Pro 🐻‍❄️ What’s new in Bear 2? Bear 2 is our largest update ever including 20+ all-new features like tables, Backlinks, ToC, and more. The journey to Bear 2 has been long, but we’re thrilled with how it turned out. Make sure to check it out on our iOS and macOS App Store pages! 🐻‍❄️ Thank you for your support! We sincerely want to thank everyone for all your support, and a huge thank you to our amazing hunter @chrismessina for all the help along the way. We are all ears for any feedback or thoughts the Product Hunt community has on Bear 2. ​ Thanks again! Danilo Bonardi 🐻❤️🚀
Danilo Bonardi
@chrismessina @ianwdj Everything about the editor is so heavily interconnected that it's hard for me to be very specific. I can tell some CommonMark edge cases are particularly tricky and time-consuming, but most of our focus was on parsing performances of a document and while writing.
Danilo Bonardi
@tatiana_stronskaya Thank You Tatiana
Nitesh Manav
Congrats on the launch. By the way, logo looks too similar to that of https://www.feedbear.com/ Not sure if you are aware or not. :)
Isaac Tendo
No web app available?
Navin Peiris
Amazing product! Was a Bear user for a long time, can’t wait to checkout the update. Best of luck with the launch!
Eric R. Burgess
Yay, Bear! While I'm starting to shift to Notion, I've been using and loving Bear for many moons. It's an ideal note-taking app and it's wonderful to see it get new features that will expand its value while keeping its gorgeous design and simplicity.
Gaurav Lalchandani
Congratulation on the launch of Bear 2.0 @trix180 Do you guys plan to offer a lifetime offer deal? :)
Danilo Bonardi
@iamgrv Hello. No, We are a little skeptical about offering a lifetime tier along with subscriptions.
Fuzen
In the top three of all macOS and iOS apps. A masterful attention to making a digital product as fulfilling as owning a physical product that you enjoy using every single time.
Tania T.
What a interesting app, I definitely need to try it😎
Kevin T.
I'm looking for anything that knocks Apple Notes out of the park. But I also use a PC, and can access my Apple Notes from a web interface. Are there plans to offer a Windows/web app version?
Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
This looks really cool! I'm going to give it a try. I couldn't really get into Obsidian and Relfect, but i feel like this might be a bit different. Im loving the visuals and the previews of the text
Ankit Sharma
Nice Product, Congratulations on the launch 🎉
Nitish Sainani
are you guys using a in-house language model?
Scott Sturgis
Bear has been my main note-taking app for several years now. It is one of the few apps that I subscribe to. It is a pleasure to write in and so easy to find the information I need when I need it.
Maksym Saluian
Looking forward to it!
Rou Mills
I used to change note taking apps every few months. I haven't changed since I signed up for Bear when it first launched.
Siobhán
A wonderful app and I love the Bear 2. Many thanks to the team for a great update.
Megan Brain
any plans for Android?
Heleana Grace
This is awesome! Congrats on the launch! 🚀
Nick from FirstHR
My congrats on the launch! And best of luck, guys!
André J
Congrats on the theverge feature yesterday 🚀