Comparison

Bear Markdown Notes & Journal vs Lattics

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bear Markdown Notes & Journal

Capture, write, and organize your thoughts and ideas with a beautiful and powerful Markdown editor. Create lists, tasks, link notes, and export in various formats. Offers a private and distraction-free writing experience.

Highlights
  • Markdown editor with formatting
  • Note linking and organization with tags
  • Task creation and management
  • Web content clipping
  • Apple Pencil sketching support
  • Export to multiple formats
  • Dictate notes with Apple Watch
Features
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Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown app to capture, write, and organize your life. ​ Take notes, plan your day, journal thoughts, organize tables, create lists and tasks, sketch ideas, link notes together, write a book, and much more. Bear is used by writers, lawyers, chefs, CEOs, teachers, doctors, engineers, students, parents.. you get the picture. Getting started couldn’t be faster—no signup and no account. Just open a note and write naturally. ​ "My journaling app of choice is Bear" - Kit Eaton, New York Times ​ * 2017 Apple Design Award * 2016 App Store App of the Year * Editors' choice for 7 consecutive years * Most of our parents love it ​ ## BEAUTIFUL. SIMPLE. POWERFUL. PRIVATE - Tools stay out of your way so you can just write - Sketch ideas on iPad with an extendable canvas and Apple Pencil (and other styli) - Clip web pages and other content with Bear’s app extension - The redesigned Info Panel now with Table of Contents and Backlinks - Use Apple Watch to dictate and append to recent notes - Support for all the scripts including RTL languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian - Easily create notes with Siri and Shortcuts - Your notes, not ours - Bear is private at its core: We cannot see your notes, tags, or anything else ​ ## FLEXIBLE MARKDOWN ​ - Work in plain text - easy to move between apps - Still use formatting like bold, italics, strikethrough, links, tables, and more with Markdown - Combine text styles like bold and underline, even in headings - Markdown hides for a clean reading experience - Use WikiLinks to connect notes and build a personal wiki or knowledge management tool ​ ## GET ORGANIZED with #tags, tasks, and more ​ - Add #tags, #multi-word tags# and even #multiple/nested/tags anywhere in a note for quick organization - Pin important tags to the top of the Sidebar - Make important tags stand out in the Sidebar with TagCons - Add tasks to notes and easily view all notes that include tasks - Fold sections to get them out of the way ​ ## SHARING MADE EASY ​ - Export notes to plain text, Markdown, TextBundle, Bear note, and rich text - Export notes to HTML, DocX, PDF, JPG, and ePub (Bear Pro required) - Easily share your notes to any third-party app with the Share Sheet ​ ## SEARCH FAR AND WIDE ​ - Use Spotlight to search your notes from anywhere - Search for text inside photos and PDFs (Bear Pro required) - Focus on specific types of notes with powerful Special Searches like @todo, @images, and @yesterday ​ ## CREATE YOUR COZY SPACE ​ * Pick from nearly 30 themes for the perfect writing space in both Light and Dark Mode (Bear Pro required) * Choose an app icon that speaks to your personality (Bear Pro required) * Set your own fonts for plain text, headings, and code * Set line height and width, paragraph spacing, and more ​ ## GET MORE WITH BEAR PRO ​ One subscription enables a variety of features on all your devices and keeps the Bear hugs coming. ​ - Sync notes between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud - Encrypt individual notes with a password that is entirely private to you - Lock Bear with Face/Touch ID - Export to more formats including HTML, DocX, PDF, JPG, and ePub - Search for text inside images and PDFs in Bear notes - Over 30 beautiful app themes & app icons ​ $2.99 monthly $29.99 yearly 14-day free trial ​ ----- Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your App Store account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. After purchase, manage your subscriptions in App Store Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. ----- ​ bear@shinyfrog.net Twitter: BearNotesApp Reddit: reddit.com/r/BearApp Facebook: BearNotes Instagram: BearNotesApp Privacy Policy: http://www.bear.app/privacy/ Terms of Service: http://www.bear.app/terms/

About

Lattics

This writing tool helps users organize thoughts and write efficiently with a non-linear, interconnected approach. It supports rich text formatting, markdown, and local storage for privacy. While the iOS version is great for viewing and editing, the Mac version offers advanced features like AI assistance and visual writing tools.

Highlights
  • Card-based note-taking
  • Non-linear writing structure
  • Rich text editor with markdown
  • Content interconnection via links
  • Automatic citation generation
  • Local data storage for privacy
  • Third-party sync (OneDrive, WebDAV)
Features
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Lattics' Mac version has been available for 5 years, designed for writers, students, researchers, and other professionals, significantly improving efficiency in writing novels, academic papers, project reports, and knowledge acquisition. Now, an iOS version is available as a supplement to the Mac version. However, due to the limitations of mobile interaction compared to computers, it is primarily for viewing and editing documents and cards. For full functionality, please download the Mac version. The Mac's and iOS's membership are compatible and do not require separate purchases. Lattics' design principles follow the divergent thinking and the structured info organization of the human brain, providing an immersive, multi-perspective, multi-dimensional, and interconnected info to stimulate creative efficiency. iOS version Key Features: - Good Design: Excellent modern, minimalist, and stylish feel - Card Library: take note as card - Non-linear: Allows for chapter-based or card-based writing, with flexible organization and adjustment structure at any time - Rich Editor: Supports text style, inline image and formula, footnote, comment, highlighting, multi-column, and text formatting - Markdown syntax - High Performance: A single article can reach 100,000 words without lag - Block Elements: Use the "/" syntax to insert heading, text, list, image, code block etc - Local Storage: Content is stored locally and not uploaded to any cloud, protecting data privacy and security - Third-Party Sync: Supports OneDrive and WebDAV protocol - Content Interconnection: Use the syntax "@" to establish bidirectional links between articles, cards, PDFs, and web pages. Backtracking through forward or backward links - Citation: Automatically numbers citations and generates biblography. Switch citation styles with just one click Mac version has more Features: - AI-Assisted Writing: translation, proofreading, rewriting, and creative writing - AI Deep Research: analysis of PDF content, and generation of reference citations. - Visual Writing: Write intuitively with Project Outline, Graph, and Timeline - Block Elements: Compared to the iOS version, it also supports tables, mathematical formulas, and chemical formulas, and allows dragging and dropping to move block elements. - Style Template: Precisely set styles, font, font size, alignment, indentation, line spacing, paragraph spacing, list numbering, color, borders, etc - Interactive Chart: Various table and chart templates - Math Formula: Provides commonly used operators, easy to write LaTeX code. chemical formula, alignment line, automatic line wrapping, line numbers. Far surpasses MathType - Image and Table Cross-reference - PDF Translation: Translate PDF in 92 languages, including scanned PDFs. Preserves original layout, Allows for excerpting, highlighting, and exporting translation result - OCR: Accurately identify and extract complex table or math formula from PDF - Zotero Integration: Install the official plugin, you can drag&drop or copy Zotero notes into Lattics and keep their reference - Browser Plugin: Extract webpage content or save online PDFs to Lattics - Web App - Flashcard - Goal Setting for Article or Project - Bi-article Comparison - Sequential Reading - Hierarchical Tags/Subtags - High-quality export - Multi-windows - .. and more ---- Notice about Auto-Renewal Subscription -- Lattics Pro - Monthly: $5.99 / mon Lattics Pro - Yeally: $35.99 / 12 mons The automatic renewal of your Pro membership subscription will be automatically deducted from your iTunes account within 24 hours before the membership expires; You can go to the account settings to manage the subscription and cancel the subscription after purchase. The specific path is: "Settings" -> Apple ID -> Subscription Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://lattics.com/en-US/terms_of_service Privacy Policy: https://lattics.com/en-US/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Bear Markdown Notes & Journal4 screens
Lattics4 screens

Verdict

The call

Bear Markdown Notes & Journal and Lattics are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bear Markdown Notes & Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Lattics sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bear Markdown Notes & Journal ships an update every 10 days, Lattics every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Bear Markdown Notes & Journal versus Lattics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBear Markdown Notes & JournalLattics
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews — better76.5% of reviews
Number of ratings6.9K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS16 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size263 MB54 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperShiny Frog Ltd.Aura Marker Studio Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Bear Markdown Notes & Journal

All ratings6,867 ratings
Positive91.6%
Neutral2.6%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews1,754 reviews
Positive76.9%
Neutral9.5%
Negative13.7%

Lattics

Written reviews68 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral10.3%
Negative13.2%

Bugs and requests

Bear Markdown Notes & Journal

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Sync issues causing note conflicts and data loss
  • Cursor jumping and input issues on iPad
  • Inconsistent behavior when importing/exporting content

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add password protection for individual notes
  • Improve search capabilities to find text within notes
  • Implement table support for more robust note-taking
  • Develop a web-based version for broader accessibility
  • Allow manual sorting and organization of notes

Lattics

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bear Markdown Notes & Journal

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro subscription7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Lattics

Subscriptions2
  • Lattics Pro - Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Lattics Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Bear Markdown Notes & Journal free?
Bear Markdown Notes & Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lattics free?
Lattics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bear Markdown Notes & Journal or Lattics have ads?
Neither Bear Markdown Notes & Journal nor Lattics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bear Markdown Notes & Journal or Lattics?
Bear Markdown Notes & Journal ships an update every 10 days, and Lattics every 3 weeks. Most recently, Bear Markdown Notes & Journal was updated on November 8, 2026 and Lattics on November 7, 2026.

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