You’ll also see options for exporting the note in a variety of formats, but this is where you’ll bump up against the free version’s limitations. Tap the 'i' button and you’ll reveal a handy information pane, complete with running word count along with clipboard tools, sharing the note to other apps, and an option for pinning this note to the top of the list.

Start editing and you’ll see there are some restrictions compared to Evernote - Bear supports keyboard and text-based shortcuts for styling, but there’s no formatting toolbar and you’re limited to a choice of just four fonts (set via the Preferences pane).

It’s all straightforward and won’t take long to master. The right-hand pane houses the Editor, displaying the currently selected note. The app focuses on simplicity: it takes a three-paned approach, with the Sidebar providing easy access to hashtag filters, while the middle pane houses your notes in order of modification date, with a handy search bar and 'create note' button at the top.

Bear’s notes support rich text formatting (and markup support), inline images and a number of handy cross-referencing tools, from hashtags to inline links, allowing you to quickly connect to everything from websites to other notes in your collection.Īnd yet despite all this, Bear’s notes are stored in the most compatible cross-platform format you could ask for: plain text.

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