Bear User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience76.8% of reviews
Neutral9.5% of reviews
Negative experience13.7% of reviews

~ Based on 1,748 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Bear Safe?

Bear - Markdown Notes appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Bear is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 6,844 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

91.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 6,844 App Store ratings for Bear.

Is Bear Legit?

Bear - Markdown Notes appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Bear is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Just keeps getting better

Love Bear, love everything about it. And the recent addition of mermaid and workspace as tags just keep making it better. It truly is a dream app.

Please, shut down your web app

I'm an otherwise happy paying subscriber of beer for the last nearly two and a half years, but the web app on Windows and Chrome just simply broken which does not sync. It made me lose two hours of my intense research. Shame on the developers for shipping such a useless web app which does not even sync nor inform the user to save their work

Just please shut it down. It's okay, we will not mind that, but giving me a web app which does not indicate that it is not syncing, and then when you put the laptop to sleep and reopen the laptop, it syncs from the web, not this local cached version. Pathetic.

Shame on the developers.
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Very easy to use

I found this notes app very clean and easy to use, the tutorial at the start was very appreciated since I’m able to go back to it but overall I didn’t need it just because of how simplistic this app is. I’d definitely recommend this to any writers who need to write things down quickly or for a place to put things in general
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Great, but broken?

I love this app and have been using it for a long time - perhaps almost a decade. Its clean, simple and effective. But for the last year or so it has become almost unusable for notes that are longer than a few paragraphs. When i go to add something in my iPad to a longer note, it ceaselessly flips up to the start of the note so I cant write into the end. It happens over and over. Often i have to start a new note to write what i wanted to record and label it as a continuation of another note, but this is messy and annoying. I keep thinking its a glitch that will get fixed with an update but this fix never happens - do i have to abandon Bear after all these years? Is it just not made for longer notes?
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Windows bug

I’ve been using this app for over 3 years, I love it. It works just fine on Mac. Recently, I got a PC and I moved my workspace there. There is a webpage version of this app but it doesn’t sync right. I was writing on my PC yesterday for all night and I woke up today check the same file on my phone. BOOM, nothing is there, nothing got saved. And the worst part is, the website will auto sync to the phone no matter what. Which means it will erase whatever I wrote on the website and go back to the old version of the file on my phone. ISN’T THIS STUPID?
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I love this app!!

I love this app!! I love the different themes available, I love the live updates for the time of an entry, & I love the pin to top feature. I use this app for notes, to save links & package tracking numbers. I would like to suggest each entry show the day of the week, & the time. I also would like to suggest entries be stored together by each different month. Thank you for this app!! I use this app every day.
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I’ve never written a review but this deserved one

I’ve used every note app in the App Store and always end up back on my iPhone notes app…until now. It’s perfect. Visually refined. Clean. The typography is so refreshing. I believe it’s their font which is cool. Shows they care. One of the reasons the other apps frustrate me is they’re all too clunky. This one is as simple as Notes but has every possible features cleverly hidden. The way menus are built is so intuitive. Endless ways to easily organize without the clutter of endless folders. You can customize everything. I can’t believe I’m saying this but it makes me feel good using it. lol Incredible job by the developers. Please make other apps. This level of artistry in app design is desperately needed. The craziest part it’s $30 a YEAR! Immediately cancelled my Evernote subscription which was $12 a month and sucks compared to this app.
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Best Note-Taking Experience

I’ve been using this app for years, and it’s still one of my favorites. I really like how simple and easy it is to use. The overall experience is smooth, and syncing between my devices works perfectly.

The themes look great, and typing in Markdown is such a nice experience. Thanks to the whole team for making such an awesome app and continuing to improve it!
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Workspaces are great!

It’s great that Bear is adding workspaces, specially making them as an optional opt-in/opt-out unlike something like Ulysses.

Keep going in the right direction Bear and I’ll keep being a happy paying customer

Everything is GONE.

I love this app. I have been using it for probably several years at this point. I have kept everything in my notes, and I happen to tap too fast getting into the app, thinking I’m getting a “leave a review” pop up; they asked to make storage on my device and EVERYTHING is deleted, not even in the trash can, I mean completely gone! I hope there is a way to get them back, I hadn’t made any backups 🥲
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Good markdown viewer, not a fan of tags, expensive subscription

I’m looking for a new Notes app. I like the color themes that Bear offers. The app looks really good too. The text and paragraph formatting options are limited though. Bear is good as a markdown viewer. What I don’t like, however: 1) in order to create folders and nested folders, I have to use tags 2) I was also very turned off by the subscription.. $30 a year? I’d like to see a reasonable one-time pay, or reasonable yearly subscription price. $30 a year is patently absurd if you’re not a heavy user and only just using the app as a markdown viewer.
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Clunky messy ui

Sure it looks "clean" at first but it automatically adds markups that show every time you try to edit a word. So if you delete part of it you end up with bunch of asterisks to delete. That's not clean. Would prefer no markups at all. And having to pull up a secondary keyboard for every formatting task gets tiresome and kills work flow. Why not a long press menu for frequent formatting functions? And can't select more than one cell in tables. Honestly would rather go back to apple notes if wasn't so slow on my older device.
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Great app at a great price

I love the Bear app. It’s WAY better than Evernote and reasonably priced. Keep up the great work!

不具合

課金をして使っています。同期も早いし、タグを複数つけて管理できるので重宝しています。
ただ、しばらく前から長文を打って、後から編集したり続きを打とうとするとカーソルがおかしなところに行くようになってしまいました。
それだけが地味にストレスです。

5 sao nhà quản lý

5 sao nhà quản lý

I’m using this nonstop now

I love this notes app is just what I needed! Though I’m giving this 4 stars because I really wish the lock notes feature would be free.

无法和windows网页版很好同步

在网页上写东西,第二天起来发现没有按照网页上最新写的同步,而是同步了手机里没写新东西的旧版本,天塌了你知道吗。这体验太差了,因为我前一天晚上专门试验过会不会同步,看的时候没有问题,结果早上起来给我开大招。

Browser access is a game changer

I was originally put off bear as it’s limited to the Apple ecosystem; as I have to use a windows PC at times. They’ve recently released a beta of browser access to your notes. It’s awesome. Feels great and acts like a Mac app. I rarely write reviews, but I feel Bear have really earned it. They price their app fairly, have a beautiful product and are a small team. They certainly have my support going forward.
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Vale a pena testar

O aplicativo é muito útil, tem muitas funcionalidades que condensam inúmeros apps que você poderia ter para funções diferentes, tudo num único local. Uso para minhas notas acadêmicas e logo se tornou meu principal meio de criação de um segundo cérebro. Os preços são justos, mas o foco no usuário é tão óbvio que você logo de cara se sente inclinado a contribuir com o projeto. Recomendo! É simples mas elegante, fácil e pronto para usar.
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Space need improvement

I use your app frequently. It is amazing and useful. But, I found when my notes,including photos and videos, became more, it use most of my iPhone & iPad’s memory. Can you improve my app by minimising the space. Thanks.