It’s Apple season with lots of exciting new features being teased — Bear is ready to take advantage of all the goodies on show plus a brand new feature that empowers your writing experience. Let’s dive in!
Multi Color Highlighter
In Bear 2.3, we’re excited to introduce the highly requested multi-color highlighter feature, giving you the flexibility to choose from five dynamic colors:
- Green
- Red
- Blue
- Yellow
- Purple
Now, you can easily distinguish different types of highlighted content by using multiple highlighter colors—whether it’s highlighting key points, marking sections for further editing, or color-coding tasks.
These colors are also consistent across all Bear themes, ensuring that each highlight color remains easy to recognize and distinguish even when you switch themes. Check Bear Support Doc to learn how to use the multi-color highlighter tool.
New Tinted Color Icons
We’re excited to announce that Bear now fully supports iOS 18’s new Tinted Color Icons!
Whether you prefer bold hues or subtle shades, this feature lets you customize your Bear app icon to match your unique style, adding a tint to all your Home Screen icons.
Control center widgets
Bear now offers quick access to our core features with our brand-new Control Center widgets! Choose from New Note, New To-Do Note, New Scan Document Note, or Search Notes to streamline your workflow and keep your productivity tools just a tap away.
There’s More
We’ve also fixed a bunch of bugs and added some more actions to make life easier. Check out the full Changelog below:
macOS
- Fixed note scrolling glitch
- Fixed Timing.app integration
iOS
- Support for tinted icons
- Support for control center widgets
- New Note
- New ToDo note
- New Scan Document note
- Search notes
- Restored the correct coloring of Bear’s custom keyboard
- New attachments export menu
- Fixed issue with side actions positioning
coreOS
- New Highlighter colors: It’s possible to choose between 5 different colors for highlighting your notes
- Added more actions to the … menu inside the note
- Pin/Unpin
- Trash/Restore
- Archive/Unarchive
- Privacy
- Sort ToDos
- DOCX exporter fixed issue with markdown [unlinked references]
- Minor changes to the existing themes
- Code blocks no longer change height during markdown hiding/showing
- Header links now work correctly if the target header is folded
- Fixed attachments path issue with merged markdown exports
- Fixed wiki link name update bug concerning locked notes
- Fixed an issue with note search and attachments no longer connected to notes
- Better handling of HTML comments during exports
- The Add file shortcuts action now has an extra parameter to limit insertion to a specific header inside the note
- Fixed issue with copy as > HTML when performed from the note list
- Fixed lag popovers appearing lag for notes with a lot of links
- Better handling of inline stylers when they are toggle off inside a word
- Fixed HTML export W3C validation issues
- Fixed issue preventing attachments to be correctly linked in textbundle and BearNote exports when they were in some folding conditions
- Changes in the Quick Open panel search algorithm
Tell us what you think!
Thank you all for your incredible feedback during Bear 2.3 beta testing on multi color highlighter feature. We’d love to hear what you think about all the new features and how you use them: How will you use the new highlighter colors? What tinted icon will you choose? Have you added any new widgets into your control center? Let us know!
That’s all folks, see you next time! Enjoy the new OS and Bear 2.3!
The Bear Team