Welcome to Bear,
a New Kind of Notes App.

Designed for Mac, iPhone, and iPad

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Sync Across Devices

Bear syncs between iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so you can write whenever inspiration strikes, no matter what device you have on hand.

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Organize Your Life

Bear makes it easy to organize your notes in an easy and intuitive way. Use tools like #tags to group similar ideas together; or link notes together to build a body of work. You can even record notes on Apple Watch.

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Write Your Way

Bear is perfect for all kinda of notes, like quick notes and in-depth essays. There’s even a focus mode that helps you stay on task.

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Your Notes Are Safe

With BearPro, you can encrypt notes, or even lock individual notes. Keep away nosey friends, family, and coworkers by setting unique up a unique password, or use TouchID/FaceID.

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Pricing

Many of Bear’s features are free to use on Mac, iPad, and iPhone. You can create notes, add tags and attachments, and export to a variety of formats.

Bear Pro offers advanced features including sync between all your devices, over a dozen beautiful themes, and more powerful export options. All this, and future Pro features, can be unlocked with a single in-app subscription that covers all your devices.

The Bear Pro subscription has two options:

$1.49 monthly, which offers a one week free trial
$14.99 annually, which has a one month free trial

Prices may vary based on your region due to local tax laws and conversion rates from U.S. dollars.

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About Shiny Frog

We are an artisanal app crafting team that spans Italy, Ireland, and the US. We believe in open standards, privacy, and quality. We love Star Wars, comic books, video games, good beer, warm tea, and building apps. Our latest project is Bear.

Our Team

Matteo

Side Project

Konstantin

Annoying Debugger

David

Wordsmith

Damien

Heineken Guy

Finn

Sketchy Intern

Rachel

Meme Queen

Riccardo

Espresso Boy

Pete

Pixel Wrangler

Danilo

Mostly Coder

Nicola

Hungry (Designer) Ghost

Luca

Unicorn Hunter

Zowie

Bear's China Emissary

Vic

Illustrator Supreme

Ciro

Key Specialist

Magnus

Savvy Algorithmer

Niall O'Connor

Our Director