Your private ecosystem

A quiet home for thoughtful collaboration

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One place for everything

  • Private by default

    Your data stays on your device and is end-to-end encrypted in transit. No tracking, no data collection. Built by community feedback.

  • Edit together

    Real-time collaboration on notes, documents, sheets, slides, canvases, and images. Your work stays between you and your peers.

  • Meet here

    Schedule the meeting, take the call, and get an on-device speech-to-text transcript. We make meetings simple.

  • Bring your AI

    Pax runs on your models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter, Ollama and more (or ours, with zero data retention).

The Blackbear Desk: notes, sheets, images, audio and documents side by side
The same Desk in the Blackbear iPhone app

Bring your files, your calendars, your tasks, your workflows, and your friends.

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CONNECT

Made for your close circle

Nobody finds you by searching. There's no public directory, no profile for strangers to browse, and no suggested friends. People reach you only through a QR code or private link you choose to share.

Messages and voice and video calls are end-to-end encrypted, and you never need a phone number.

Share photos, files, and thoughts on your timeline. Only your connections see them, with no ads and no algorithm in between.

The people you invite join free.

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A home that grows with you

Blackbear gets better as you use it. Here's what a day can look like.

Morning

Start with clarity

Open Blackbear to your day: the calendar shows today's events next to the week ahead, with your tasks and the files you're working on a tap away. Manage your routines and track your day from one place.

  • ✓ Manage tasks, schedule events, and capture your daily journal entry
  • ✓ Track routines for sleep, hydration, and more
  • ✓ Full application search with quick capture for tasks & events
  • ✓ Chat with Pax and get agentic insights when you need
blackbear Calendar: today's schedule and the week ahead
blackbear notes and files

Your work

Everything in one place

Notes for your meetings. A calendar that syncs with your other calendars. Tasks with priorities and deadlines. Sheets for budgets and tracking. Sketch on a canvas. Present from slides. All in the same app, all searchable, all private.

  • ✓ Rich markdown editor with tables, wiki-links, and templates
  • ✓ Calendar with Google sync, recurring events, and reminders
  • ✓ Sheets with formulas, charts, and materialized views
  • ✓ Drawing canvas, documents, and presentation slides

Your people

Private by default, social by choice

Message friends with end-to-end encryption. Hop on a video call. Send a note or a file to the people you work with. Wind down with ambient sounds. Every connection is private, no data harvesting, no ads, no clutter.

  • ✓ E2EE messaging with voice and video calls
  • ✓ QR code pairing — no phone number needed
  • ✓ Share notes and files right in the conversation
  • ✓ Ambient sounds and focus timer for deep work
blackbear encrypted messaging

Your assistant

Help when you ask for it

Ask Pax to go through your reading list and pick the weekend's book, turn a trip plan into a canvas, or line up your week. Pax works with the files you already have, and every change they make shows up as a receipt you can open or undo.

  • ✓ Off until you pick a provider: Blackbear's own models, your own API key, or a model running on your computer
  • ✓ Reads, writes and organizes notes, docs, sheets, slides, canvases, tasks and events
  • ✓ A receipt for every action, with undo

And so much more

Workflows

Define custom workflows to step through your repeatable operations, leveraging all of Blackbear's features.

Themes

Full light, dark, and OLED theme support. Over 20 provided themes with the ability to create your own. Blackbear is yours to customize.

Templates

50+ templates for notes, tasks, and workflows. Build your own templates or pull from community sources.

Works Offline

Everything works without internet. Sync when you're ready.

Collaborate

Collaborate in real-time on notes, documents, sheets, canvases, and more.

Integrations

Blackbear supports over 100 integrations, with more integration support on the horizon.

Signing

Human and agentic content is signed so that you always know what's yours and what's agentic.

Version History

Every change is saved. Restore any version of any note, anytime.

Ready to try Blackbear?

Core features are free forever and work on any device.

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