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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About Bear 2 on Product Hunt
“Simple, powerful, private Markdown notes”
Bear 2 launched on Product Hunt on July 12th, 2023 and earned 402 upvotes and 59 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. 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.
On the analytics side, Bear 2 competes within Productivity, Notes and Text Editors — topics that collectively have 674.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Bear 2 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Bear 2?
Bear 2 was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Chris Messina