Bear

Bear is a beautifully designed and powerfully simple note-taking application for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, built around Markdown. It allows you to capture, write, and organize your thoughts seamlessly. You can work with text, photos, tables, and to-do lists all within the same note. Flexible tagging makes organizing notes and projects intuitive and straightforward.

The app provides a polished, minimal interface with beautiful themes to create a comfortable writing space. For more advanced users, Bear offers a suite of powerful features:

• Export your notes to various formats including PDF, HTML, DOCX, and JPG.
• Search for text inside photos and PDFs with Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
• Structure your notes with headings and use folding to focus on specific sections.
• Customize your organization with over 250 tag icons.

With the PRO version, you can sync your notes across all your devices using iCloud and add an extra layer of security by encrypting individual notes. Bear is designed to be fast and responsive, working both online and offline to keep pace with your ideas.