Back in 2013, three friends who loved Apple and design couldn’t find a notes app they liked, so they built their own. That side project became Bear. It arrived on the App Store in November 2016, and within a year it had been named Mac App of the Year and won an Apple Design Award. This November, the little Bear turns 10. Today it helps millions of people around the world capture their ideas and organize their lives every day, and we’ve felt so much love and support from all of you along the way.
We couldn’t find a notes app that fit how we write, so we started building our own.
We built it in our spare time. Our day job back then was building apps and websites for clients.
Your feedback showed us where the original Bear was hitting its limits. Six months in, we realized we needed our own Markdown parser too, so we started over. Again.
