Bear Pricing & Free Plan Limits
Complete pricing breakdown for Bear including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.
Pricing score: 80/100
Is Bear free?
Yes — the Free plan costs nothing. Paid plans start at $2.99/month (Pro Monthly).
The free plan includes
- Unlimited local notes
- Markdown editor, nested tags, backlinks
- Sketches and document scanning
- Export to TXT, MD, TextBundle, RTF, .bearnote
- 3 themes, 1 app icon
Free plan limits
- Users: 1 user
- Storage: Unlimited local notes (one device)
- No iCloud sync, no encryption, no OCR search in PDFs/images, no PDF/DOCX/HTML/ePub export
Watch out: Sync between devices requires Pro
Plans & Pricing
Free
$0.00/free
- Unlimited local notes
- Markdown editor, nested tags, backlinks
- Sketches and document scanning
- Export to TXT, MD, TextBundle, RTF, .bearnote
- 3 themes, 1 app icon
User limit: 1 user
Storage: Unlimited local notes (one device)
Pro Monthly
$2.99/monthly
- iCloud sync across Mac, iPhone, iPad
- Note encryption and app lock
- OCR search in PDFs and images
- Export to PDF, DOCX, HTML, JPG, ePub
- 20+ themes and app icons
User limit: 1 user (all Apple devices)
Storage: Unlimited
Pro Annual (Legacy)
$14.99/yearly
- All Pro features at grandfathered rate
User limit: 1 user (all Apple devices)
Storage: Unlimited
Education
$20.99/yearly
- All Pro features with 30% discount
User limit: 1 user
Storage: Unlimited
Pro Yearly
Popular$29.99/yearly
- Everything in Pro Monthly
- ~15% cheaper than monthly
User limit: 1 user (all Apple devices)
Storage: Unlimited