Bear

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.

19 of the 60 sites closest to Bear match.

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   Obsidian obsidian.md Top 10K English No trackers

   Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking

   The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.

   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Fastly
   • Google Search Console
   • Mailgun

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   Logseq logseq.com English No trackers

   Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base

   A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.

   • Amazon Web Services
   • Amazon CloudFront
   • Google Workspace
   • Amazon Route 53

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   Typst typst.app English No trackers

   Typst: The new foundation for documents

   Typst is the new foundation for documents. Sign up now and experience limitless power to write, create, and automate anything that you can fit on a page.

   • Amazon SES
   • Apple Business
   • Astro
   • Azure Front Door
   • Google Search Console
   • Microsoft 365

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   Roam Research roamresearch.com English No trackers

   Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought.

   As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.

   • Bootstrap
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Intercom
   • Stripe
   • Vercel

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   CamScanner camscanner.com English No trackers

   CamScanner: AI PDF Scanner, OCR & Online PDF Tools

   CamScanner is a free AI-powered PDF scanner app with OCR and online PDF tools. Scan documents, extract text, convert files, edit PDFs, and sync across devices.

   • Cloudflare
   • Google Search Console
   • Nuxt
   • PHP
   • Amazon Route 53
   • Vue.js

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   Sketch sketch.com English No trackers

   Sketch · Design, prototype, collaborate and handoff

   Sketch puts the focus back on you and your work. Made by designers, for designers.

   • Amazon CloudFront
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Netlify
   • OpenAI
   • Amazon Route 53

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7. 07
   Widgetsmith widgetsmith.app English No trackers

   Widgetsmith - One app; endless home screens

   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Squarespace

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   Raindrop.io raindrop.io English No trackers

   Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager

   For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff

   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Microsoft 365
   • Next.js

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   Omnivore omnivore.app English No trackers

   Omnivore

   Omnivore

   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Google Search Console
   • Next.js
   • React

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    Shazam shazam.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Shazam - Music Discovery, Charts & Song Lyrics

    Identify the music playing around you. Explore the music you love. Discover songs, lyrics, and artists on Shazam.

    • Fastly
    • Google Search Console
    • Miro
    • Next.js
    • React
    • Amazon Route 53

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    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

    • Apache HTTP Server
    • Amazon SES
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • Microsoft 365
    • Amazon Route 53

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    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.

    • Amazon SES
    • Atlassian
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • Contentful
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace

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    iCloud icloud.com Top 100 English No trackers

    iCloud

    Log in to iCloud to access your photos, mail, notes, documents and more. Sign in with your Apple Account or create a new account to start using Apple services.

    • Google Search Console

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    Procreate procreate.com English No trackers

    Procreate — Creative apps designed for iPad

    Powerful and easy-to-use drawing and animation apps, made for both creative professionals and aspiring artists. Pay once. No subscription.

    • Apple Business
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • DocuSign
    • Dropbox
    • Google Search Console
    • Meta Business Suite

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    hemingwayapp.com English No trackers

    Hemingway Editor

    Hemingway Editor makes your writing bold and clear.

    • Cloudflare
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Meta Business Suite
    • Next.js
    • React

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    MAMP mamp.info English No trackers

    MAMP & MAMP PRO - your local web development solution for PHP and WordPress development

    MAMP GmbH is the manufacturer of the award-winning MAMP software.

    • Bootstrap
    • Font Awesome
    • GoDaddy DNS
    • Google Search Console
    • nginx

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    Datawrapper datawrapper.de English No trackers

    Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables

    Create interactive, responsive & beautiful data visualizations with the online tool Datawrapper — no code required.

    • Apple Business
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Font Awesome
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace

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    MyFitnessPal myfitnesspal.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Calorie Tracker & BMR Calculator to Reach Your Goals | MyFitnessPal

    Reach your health, fitness & weight goals with MyFitnessPal, the #1 nutrition tracking app. Macro & calorie calculator, food tracker, and fasting app in one. Download today!

    • Apple Business
    • Atlassian
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics
    • DocuSign

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    Clerk clerk.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Clerk | Authentication and User Management

    The easiest way to add authentication and user management to your application. Purpose-built for React, Next.js, Remix, and “The Modern Web”.

    • Clerk
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Meta Business Suite
    • Next.js
    • React

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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.