Ratings and reviews
Bike
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184 ratings
Daryl Thomas
Aug 15, 2025
App version: 1.21
I am loving using this app. It is an excellent app for brainstorming ideas and doing outlines for writing.
Scooby
May 22, 2025
App version: 1.21
I do like it, it’s simple and useful. I like organizing projects
Reese Armstrong
Jan 31, 2025
App version: 1.21
Great outliner!
Stefan Gallas
Nov 8, 2024
App version: 1.18.5
Einfacher aber sehr guter Editor für normale Texte
Wes
Sep 4, 2024
App version: 1.18.4
Elegant typing experience— maybe the best I’ve seen. Great ourlining capabilities and use of the keyboard. Needs an iOS (and then iPadOS) companion app to become part of my workflow.
Richard Kranendonk
Apr 16, 2024
App version: 1.18.1
As all software from Jesse Grosjean: focus on the essentials, excellent execution!
Aric
Jan 23, 2024
App version: 1.18
Good quality outliner with some very unique features.
Rajeev
Aug 15, 2025
App version: 1.21
This is my favorite writing app on setapp.
Lucas Glenn
May 18, 2025
App version: 1.21
Bike has solved my workflow. I work in plaintext files, and I get overwhelmed when my notes get too long. Bike allows me to expand, collapse, and focus in/out of sections with easy-to-remember shortcut keys, cutting down on information overload—empowering me to architect great notes. Other outliner tools may have more many bells and whistles. But I don’t need to get dragged down into writing yaml frontmatter I’ll never use. A problem with bulkier outliners like logseq, is that once your data garden is large enough to lean on its rich searching and querying power, the program becomes too slow for a good experience. My only suggestions to the dev are 1. I would love it if collapsing an item made nested items also collapse (when reopening the parent). 2. When I press to move my cursor to the end of a line, I’m always accidentally pressing the near-invisible “focus in" button. It drives me crazy some days. Overall, Bike is a great outliner with incredible performance.
Response from Developer
May 19, 2025
> Bike has solved my workflow. Glad to hear this, thanks for giving Bike a try. > 1. I would love it if collapsing an item made nested items also collapse You can do this with the Command-Option-9 keyboard shortcut. You can also do it by clicking on the row disclosure handle while also holding down the Option key. > 2. When I press to move my cursor to the end of a line I don't have an answer for you now, but Bike 2 (which I've long been working on, also long been having trouble finishing) has powerful stylesheets. They will allow you to change the Focus Button's color, or even remove the entire button.
Thomas
Jan 26, 2025
App version: 1.21
amazing! love it so much
rob hardy
Sep 8, 2024
App version: 1.18.4
blows my mind how fast n smooth this app is. it’s like butter.
Laila Regalado
Aug 14, 2024
App version: 1.18.4
This is incredibly useful
C. Boyd
Mar 15, 2024
App version: 1.18
I LOVE this app so far. I managed to get in my writing zone (I’m a lawyer) yesterday for the first time in a while using it… It’s just a pleasure to use…!
Andrew Warner
Jan 18, 2024
App version: 1.17
Helping me make better lists to finish my tasks
Flavia Xie-Ku
Jul 19, 2025
App version: 1.21
Love the way this application has been developed. It’s simple, straight-forward and intuitive to use. Thank you!
Ahmaud Templeton
Apr 2, 2025
App version: 1.21
Lightweight, easy to use, and works for quickly and efficiently creating notes and outlines for plans/projects. I love it!
Adam
Jan 4, 2025
App version: 1.20
One of my favorite apps on setapp. Use it to organize everything now. I really hope that the devloper never stops working on this app. My whole life basically exists on this app at this point.
Response from Developer
Jan 5, 2025
Glad you like it, and I hope to work on it for a long time me to come.
brunson
Sep 4, 2024
App version: 1.18.4
It’s great other than the incremental crashing; which hasn’t effected me too greatly since it seems to save the last place I was at. I wish that files could be exported into a .txt, .docx, or otherwise for increased accessibility and ease of use across programs. Otherwise, I’m pleased with the app and know I will be using “Bike” for many purposes!
Response from Developer
Sep 4, 2024
If you can reproduce the crash (or just share what you've seen) please post in my support forums: https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/c/bike/22
Robb Shecter
Jul 10, 2024
App version: 1.18.3
A perfectly flexible note-taking / outlining app. I use it for work, with a different file for each project or topic.
xasxcy
Jan 24, 2024
App version: 1.18
very good native outline app