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Bear 2.0 – A well-deserved update to the notes app.

The App Advocate
4 min readJun 15, 2023

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Your go-to notes app from the iOS productivity world, Bear 2.0.

Wallpaper from Bear App

How do you improve a good notes app while keeping the best of it?

The answer is Bear 2.0

I have always loved and admired a simple, minimalist notes app and Bear is of the most beautifully designed app for iOS users.

Bear has been on my iPhone for a long time and when they announced an updated version with code name: Panda, i joined the early version to experience the upgrade.

Now, Bear 2.0 is almost done and let us see what all the improvements are.

The updated editor

Writing inside Bear has been always a smooth, friction less markdown experience and with the updated editor with Bear 2.0, this thing has improved. In terms more clean, no visible markdown syntax inside your notes gave a more pleasing writing and reading experience.

You can also include tags, links with Headings and you can highlight it too.

Familiar yet more functional UI and UX

Have been exploring note taking tools for a couple of years now, and to be honest Bear has been the most minimal, simple and intuitive note taking…

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The App Advocate
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