My understanding is they store everything in SQLite. Their business strategy is to charge for sync (although manual export is free) Given that it is branded as

My understanding is they store everything in SQLite. Their business strategy is to charge for sync (although manual export is free) Given that it is branded as a note taking application it makes sense both from a business and implementation point of view. Bear also kinda uses its own rendering for some things. Like dashes turn into checkboxes rather than unordered lists. Again, for a note app, checkboxes are really neat! I’ve been using it for 2-3 month and really like it!