Bear
Bear is 🐻🎂 Happy 10th bearthday! Join us for the stories behind our design principles, the tiny details hidden all over the app, plus some wonderful new features and Bear swag.. It is ranked #241 on the Design Radar, in Product visuals & launch, first seen 5 days ago and shared in 1 post (10.5k views).
Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one – Bear Skip to content Search for: Search Bear: Flexible notes, beautiful writing on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one Posted on Updated November 3, 2026 November 3, 2026 by Zowie Huang 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…
What people said about Bear on X
Bear turns 10! 🐻🎂 To celebrate the 10th bearthday, we’re sharing the principles behind every design decision, a few tiny details hidden all over the app, and some birthday presents: a new Home Screen pal, fresh icons, and Bear swag. https://blog.bear.app/2026/11/bear-turns-10-and-it-still-feels-like-day-one/
— @BearNotesApp, 5 days ago · 276 likes · see the post
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Bear in numbers
- Rank on the Design Radar: #241 of 2644
- Shared in 1 post by 1 account: @BearNotesApp
- 10.5k views on those posts
- First seen 5 days ago, last shared 5 days ago
- Pricing seen by AGK Intelligence: not stated
- Market: Product visuals & launch
FAQ
What is Bear?
🐻🎂 Happy 10th bearthday! Join us for the stories behind our design principles, the tiny details hidden all over the app, plus some wonderful new features and Bear swag. It was first shared on X 5 days ago and is ranked #241 on the Design Radar.
Is Bear free?
Pricing is not stated on the page we read.
Who shared Bear?
1 account on X, including @BearNotesApp, in 1 post totalling 10.5k views.
Every post is read and classified by AGK Intelligence: what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 13.9k posts from 5k X accounts over the last 21 days, 2.6k tools, 17 markets. New posts are collected several times an hour and the full ranking is recomputed every hour — last update 2026-11-08 17:53 UTC. Full method.