The Bear Team Releases Public Beta of Lettera, a New Mac Markdown Editor

This article covers the public beta release of Lettera, a new Mac Markdown text editor from the Bear team, built on the Panda beta that powered Bear 2.0's text engine. It highlights Lettera's ability to open and edit Markdown files directly from the file system, supporting both single files and folders as workspaces, unlike Bear's hidden file system. Features include excellent Markdown rendering, versioning, a table of contents sidebar, and multiple export formats. The author shares their experience using Panda for reading AI-generated documents from coding agents and expects Lettera to become their go-to editor for non-article writing. The beta is available via the Bear team's announcement post.