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Add to SafariWhen comparing Coda vs Bear, the Slant community recommends Bear for most people. In the question“What are the best Evernote alternatives?” Bear is ranked 16th while Coda is ranked 47th. The most important reason people chose Bear is:
Well-designed app.
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Pros
Pro Live Preview mode
Makes styling a site in CSS simpler.
Pro Built-in FTP client
Publishing your changes to the web server is a one-click operation. That is, one click per file, or one click for all your changed files. Or even cherry-pick the files to be published in the next batch.
Pro Built-in support for Git and Subversion
Although the software doesn't ship with these libraries, it does work once you have one installed.
Pro Mature
Coda has been developed by Panic exclusively for Mac since 2007. The experience of the developers shows in the stability and polish of their product.
Pro Many plugins available
There is a huge library of user-created plugins, ranging from additional syntax modes, to code validation and beautification, to reference materials, code snippets, text actions and more.
Pro Beautiful interface
Well-designed app.
Pro Easy to use
Pro Instant markdown preview in the editor while preserving original MD code
Pro Easy tagging
For example: #tag/sub tag/foo/bar #tag2/foo/bar
Pro Flawless sync
It's everything Dropbox Paper promised to be, but without the embarrassment. The notes are always in sync between devices.
Pro Lots of export formats
PDF, RTF, DOCX, HTML, TXT and MD.
Pro Hashtag support
Adding a hashtag with a keyword tags the note to make it easy to search.
Pro Simple to back up/export entire note database
Notes are exported as plain text, not a proprietary format, along with all embedded objects.
Cons
Con Hasn't been updated in 2 years.
Con Expensive
The price of $99 is more than many other editors.
Con Only subscription-based
Can not buy it straight up.
Con No Tabs - can only view 1 note at a time
Con No inline editing and markup of pictures
The only option is to open in an editor (thereby creating a copy) and saving it again.
Con Sometimes there are sync problems between iOS and macOS
