bear.app

Bear

Who runs Bear, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest note-taking software alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Evernote

Measured from Bear’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Bear

Bear bear.app

Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown note taking app to capture, write, and organize your life.

Wikidata: Note-taking software

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Bear tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

7 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
2 tools
  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Bear

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Bear, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than BearNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

3 of the 60 sites closest to Bear match.

  1. 01
    Notion notion.com Top 10K English Free plan 1 tracker

    The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion

    Build Custom Agents, search across all your apps, and automate busywork. The AI workspace where teams get more done, faster.

    Compare Notion with Bear →
  2. 02
    GitBook gitbook.com English Free plan 6 trackers

    The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook

    GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.

    Compare GitBook with Bear →
  3. 03
    Trello trello.com Top 10K English Free plan No trackers

    Capture, organize, and tackle your to-dos from anywhere

    Make the impossible, possible with Trello. The ultimate tool to boost your productivity. Escape the clutter and chaos—stay efficient with Inbox, Boards, and Planner from anywhere, even on mobile.

    Compare Trello with Bear →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Bear’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Bear uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Bear adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 3 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
35 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Bear’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

TrelloGitBookNotion