Bear is such a fantastic app. They nailed the editor feel and function early on and then have consistently improved stability and performance ever since.

They worked on a file backed editor at some point called Panda, but decided to scrap it due to the trade offs of not controlling the storage format. Really respect the focus on their core USP.

Edit: Looks like Panda was recently revived under a new name and is currently in beta: https://lettera.md.

The support is super friendly and responsive and sync just works perfectly and consistently.

Their only response to the AI mania has been adding an official embedded cli to interact with the DB safely.

They are currently working on a web client. This has me slightly worried, but it's apparently been a recurring request for people forced to use Windows at work. I trust they know what they're doing.