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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. :)
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
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!
Nacho Franchini
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!
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?
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.
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.
BALAMURALI T R
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!
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.
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.
Hui Shu
Long time Bear fan. Just tried the new Bear 2 update today. I love the new features (hidden markdown, table support). My notes are looking even better now! As a productivity geek myself, I try out many note-taking apps: Notion, Obsidian, etc. Bear is my daily driver. It's simple, reliable, fast and beautiful. Forget every other note-taking app and just use Bear.
Aleem Ali
Worth the wait! Having been a Beta tester and now happily using the production version - this is one of the most beautiful and carefully crafted writing apps in the apple ecosystem. It's pixel perfect, easy to organise and gets out the way. Now with hidden markdown, tables, ToC, and backlinks. Excellent portability, export and sync. It's a delight to use.
Altiam Kabir
Congratulations to the Bear 2 team on the launch of your remarkable update! Bear 2 takes simplicity, power, and privacy to a whole new level, providing users with a beautiful and personal space to write naturally.
Dane Brodke
This app is as close to perfection as any app I've ever used. Elegant, super fast, polished, just an absolute joy to use. I've used this since I graduated from medical school 5 years ago. 1629 notes later and all my work and life is catalogued in Bear -- using it right now to study for my final boards exam in two days. The v2 update is spectacular --- tables, image resizing, backlinks, everything you could want. The developers are true craftspeople who have created something remarkable.
DuRand Bryant
Bear is nearly perfect in every way. Fast, intuitive, beautiful. It's where all my notes start. The latest release is simply beautiful.
Alexandru Lucian Paraschiv
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!
Megan Brain
any plans for Android?
Isaac Tendo
No web app available?
Nick from FirstHR
My congrats on the launch! And best of luck, guys!