Option A
Beautiful, flexible writing app for notes and prose.
Bear is a Markdown notes app for Apple devices, popular among writers for its minimal, focused interface.
- Founder
- Danilo Bonardi
- Founded
- 2016
- Team
- 1-10
- Listing
- Free (nofollow)
- Listed
- May 2026
Option B
Roam Research
Productivity
A note-taking tool for networked thought.
Roam pioneered bi-directional linking in personal note-taking — a graph database for your brain, with a cult following among researchers and writers.
- Founder
- Conor White-Sullivan
- Founded
- 2019
- Team
- 1-10
- Listing
- Free (nofollow)
- Listed
- May 2026