When comparing Inkdrop vs Texts, the Slant community recommends Inkdrop for most people. In the question“What are the best open source Markdown editors for UNIX-like systems?” Inkdrop is ranked 2nd while Texts is ranked 29th. The most important reason people chose Inkdrop is:
It's useful for taking notes for programming.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Markdown with code syntax support
It's useful for taking notes for programming.
Pro Supports multiple Markdown dialects
Unfortunately, this is a global setting for save (it can open any dialect)
Pro Immediate Markdown rendering and preview
Texts immediately renders the formatted Markdown as you are typing it inside the text box. It's quite similar to a WYSIWYG editor.
Pro Imports and exports many formats
HTML, Word, TeX, PDF, ePUB, OPML.
Pro Works on Mac OS X and Windows
Cons
Con Aimed at programmers, not general use
Optimized for programmers, app developers, coders. Not for storing recipes, images, videos, etc.
Con Overwrites standard Markdown
Editing a preexisting Markdown document overwrites standard markup in it (for example, interpreting headings marked with leading "#"s and rewriting them with a trailing underscore line), adds extra blank lines between all paragraphs, and adds extra spaces at the head of unordered-list items.
Con Spell checking is not activated by default
There's a built-in spell checker which is not activated by default and is quite hidden.
Con Limited choice of built-in themes
You can download the CSS for these themes and create your own, but would be nice to have more flavors (e.g. GitHub)
Con No word count in older versions
Word count is present in Texts 0.21, at least.