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.
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
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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.
I'm glad I gave Bear a try, fell in love immediately. You've been working very hard and can see all the heart and soul poured into it.
Congratulations on the new version launch!
Beautiful! Had the opportunity to use the original Bear tool a few years back and it was so amazing! Best wishes for the new product and looking forward to using the new version!
Hey guys @trix180 congrats on the launch, this seems really cool. Looking forward to try it out any time soon! Keep up the good work!
Bear is nearly perfect in every way. Fast, intuitive, beautiful. It's where all my notes start. The latest release is simply beautiful.
Celebrating the debut of your amazing new product! Here's to making waves in the market and winning hearts of customers. 🚀🎉
that looks amazing, always looking for beautiful note apps. surprisingly hard to find. great job!!!
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?
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. :)
