{"id":342048,"date":"2017-05-26T17:25:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T09:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/26\/bear-note-taking-app-sketching-voiceover-update\/"},"modified":"2017-05-26T17:25:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T09:25:34","slug":"bear-1-2-brings-sketching-new-icons-and-voiceover-to-note-taking-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/bear-1-2-brings-sketching-new-icons-and-voiceover-to-note-taking-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear 1.2 Brings Sketching, New Icons, and VoiceOver to Note-Taking App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[unable to retrieve full-text content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular note-taking app <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bear-writer.com\">Bear<\/a> received an update on Thursday across Mac and iOS that adds a number of notable features to the Evernote rival.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change to Bear is the ability to sketch on iOS. Users can now add sketches to their notes using a finger or stylus. Sketches are drawn on a separate open canvas, which includes pencil and marker tools similar to Apple Notes, with each pencil coming in three sizes and a range of colors. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/03\/feature-themes@2x-800x716.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"716\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-556129\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nNext, Bear has taken cues from the new API in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ios-10\/\">iOS 10<\/a>.3 that enables apps to use custom icons. Bear supports eight different themes, and now each one has an accompanying icon so that Bear&#8217;s appearance on the Home screen optionally matches the selected theme.<\/p>\n<p>Bear 1.2 also brings VoiceOver support, to aid blind and visually impaired notetakers. Elsewhere, a Bear Notes sticker pack has been included for use in iMessages. <\/p>\n<p>Lastly, Bear has been translated for three new languages: Korean, Russian, and Brazilian Portugese. Bear 1.2 is free and offers a &#36;1.49 monthly or &#36;14.99 annual subscription model for Pro features. <a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/productivity\/bear-beautiful-writing-app-for-notes-and-prose\">Bear<\/a> is available to download on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ipad\/\">iPad<\/a> and iPhone [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/bear-beautiful-writing-app\/id1016366447?ls=1&#038;mt=8\">Direct Link<\/a>], as well as on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/mac-app-store\/\">Mac App Store<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/bear-beautiful-writing-app\/id1091189122?ls=1&#038;mt=12\">Direct Link<\/a>].<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/bear-note-taking-app-sketching-voiceover-update.2047263\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=nxIEOyKt6-w:c2OabkK5kas:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=nxIEOyKt6-w:c2OabkK5kas:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/nxIEOyKt6-w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-342048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}