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Track your Bear bills and renewals

Bear, from the developer Shiny Frog, is a Markdown note-taking app for Mac, iPhone and iPad that organises notes with flexible tags and has won an Apple Design Award. Notes travel through the user's own iCloud account, and the Bear Pro subscription adds that sync along with note encryption, OCR search inside images and PDFs, extra export formats and more themes.

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Provider: Bear
Website: bear.app
Category: Productivity & Ops
Type: notes
Also searched as: bear notes

About Bear

What people pay Bear for

Bear Pro subscription

For: People writing and organising notes on Apple devices

Bear pricing and billing

Pricing: Fixed plans
Free plan: Yes
Billed: Monthly or yearly
Plans: Free, Bear Pro
Paid plans from: $2.99 per month (Bear Pro)

Bear Pro starts with a 7-day free trial and costs $29.99 a year, about 15% less than monthly, though the saving varies with local currency and taxes.

As listed on Bear's site on 7 November 2026. Prices change; confirm before you buy.

Tracking tip

Bear offers both monthly and yearly billing. Track the cycle you are actually on; SysCost's savings insights (Pro) estimate what moving a monthly plan to yearly could save.

How to track Bear in SysCost

SysCost keeps every Bear subscription in one ledger with the rest of your tools, reminds your team before each renewal, and converts every currency into yours.

Step 1
Pick Bear
Add a subscription, choose Bear as its provider and give it your own name.
Step 2
Set the cycle
Enter the amount, currency, billing cycle and next payment date.
Step 3
Get reminders
In Slack, Discord, Telegram or email, days before each renewal.
Step 4
Record payments
Mark each one paid, failed or skipped; unpaid ones show as overdue.

Useful Bear links

Help centerbear.app/faq

Checked to load on 7 November 2026. Sources: bear.app.

Bear and SysCost: common questions

Can SysCost track my Bear subscription?

Yes. Bear is built into SysCost with its logo: pick it as the provider when you add a subscription.

Does Bear have a free plan?

Yes, Bear lists a free plan, according to its website (checked 7 November 2026). Paid plans start from $2.99 per month (Bear Pro).

How does Bear bill?

Bear offers monthly or yearly billing, priced as fixed plans. In SysCost, choose the matching cycle (monthly, quarterly or yearly) and every renewal is projected from your next payment date.