BearWikiYour notes,
as your own files
BearWiki stores every note as a Markdown file on your own device. It syncs across devices, works offline, and lets you chat with your whole knowledge base, while the files stay in your hands: open, copy or take them anywhere, any time.
Most note apps keep your content on their side.
BearWiki does the opposite.
The notes are yours, the format is open, and the app is just a good way in.
BearWiki
- Where your data lives
- On your devices, as standard Markdown files
- When offline
- Reading and writing are unaffected
- Sync conflicts
- Both versions kept, never silently overwritten
- Export
- Not needed: they are already files
- If the app is discontinued
- Your files remain, openable in any editor
Cloud note apps
- Where your data lives
- The vendor’s servers, in a proprietary format
- When offline
- Mostly unavailable or read-only
- Sync conflicts
- Often silently overwritten, so edits can be lost
- Export
- Goes through an export flow, often with lossy formats
- If the app is discontinued
- Depends on whether the vendor offers migration
Three things, done really well
No real-time collaboration, no enterprise controls, no community. Just writing, sync and AI, for one person.
Write
A WYSIWYG Markdown block editor. It saves automatically, so there is no save button. Documents form a tree of any depth, and you can drag to move them.
Sync
Write on your phone and it is up to date when you are back at your computer. On a conflict, both copies are kept instead of picking one. We would rather add a file than lose a word.
Ask
Ask questions grounded in your own notes, or ask with a photo. Sign in and it just works, with no API key needed. On desktop you can also skip the account and use your own Volcano Ark key.
Mobile, redesigned
A calm, color-block interface with just enough motion. Your own notes, served back from a new angle, plus asking with a photo.
On this day · Browse
See what you wrote on this day two years ago, and scroll an endless feed that brings old notes back.
One tap to log
Moods go into an ordinary document in your wiki. It syncs with everything else, and you can read or edit it any time.
A chat of its own
One tap at the bottom left opens a full-screen chat, with history, new chats and single-document questions close at hand.
Ask with a photo
A bookshelf, a whiteboard, a screenshot: attach it to your question and the answer draws on both the picture and your notes.
The web app and the apps are not the same thing
Both work, but they serve different purposes. Read this first so you pick the right one.
Apps · the full experience
Native apps for macOS, iOS and Android. Notes live as files on your device, fully usable offline, with zero-wait local actions and full-text search on a local index. This is BearWiki as it was meant to be.
Web app · cloud companion
Nothing to install: open a browser to read and write, handy on someone else’s computer. Data is not stored locally, so it switches to read-only with a notice when you go offline. It complements the apps; it does not replace them.
Download the app
Current version v1.3.4. Built on Tauri 2: a Rust core plus the system WebView, with no bundled browser.