All of them seem to be markdown editors, so what’s the point for using any of them over another?
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Just saying they’re all ‘markdown editors’ is perhaps not the right kind of logic to apply here, right?
You can use nano, and a few dozen other text editors to edit markdown… So what’s the point? Why not use nano?
See if you can apply your intelligence and come up with an answer.
You might find that Joplin is also a Markdown note taking application, as is Obsidian.
Personally, I use Ghostwriter, Marktext, and Marknotes.
Marknotes is NOT a ‘markdown editor’… not even close, but it IS a nice drop in for Obsidian.
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What kind of answer is “apply your intelligence and come up with an answer”?
@hazel-bunny
The difference between them is the scope of their features. Ghostwriter for instance is an actual editor - more simplistic and focused on productive writing. KleverNotes and Marknotes also organize and group your notes.
And as far as I am aware Marknotes does indeed have markdown editing functionality. A note-taking application without that wouldn’t make much sense.
You can choose one based on your use case and there is no reason not to briefly try each.
I use ghostwriter and Obsidian atm, but there are many more of these apps.
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Nearly a month later…
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One states “A note-taking and management application”
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The other states ‘No distractions. Just Write’.
Really, how much simpler can it be?
For what it’s worth - I’m no developer or anything, but I do think I’m a decently knowledgeable computer user, and I use Markdown in some writing that I’m working on.
I saw the original post, thought about it, and just wasn’t sure how to answer it - your links to app homepages are helpful, and I also appreciated the way that @ju64 summarized things as well.
We don’t all think, categorize and process in the same way 
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I think they were asking about:
Not:
marknoteapp.com/
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Yes, after using Obsidian for a while, I found that MarkNote appears to be a direct replacement - basically a wrapper for notes contained in folders.
I like this approach more than Joplin, which stores notes in it’s own way…
It’s a crime to refer to software like this as ‘A Markdown Editor’.
On the rest of the list, Ghostwriter might be compared to MarkText (as Markdown editors) and comment that Ghostwriter works as a nice dual pane editor, whilst MarkText is more of a one-pane writing application.
If you export a web-page as a markdown file, then I tend to find Ghostwriter is a good tool to filter out the ‘fluff’…
But really, there are so many ‘points’ about using one over the other that the question is redundant.
I mean, There’s a great beach at Krabi - so why bother having any others?
Only person who got it lol. I’m posting on KDE’s discourse instance, and that other thing doesn’t know about KDE’s marknote; yet dares to answer & beat about the bush, referring to the wrong marknote. Like, why are those things even allowed in the forum if they can not but post heaps of spam?
I got it. I’m having some difficulty in comprehending your post, however, perhaps because I’m English and rely on plain English… though I confess I did mis-spell ‘Marknote’ as ‘Marknotes’ - I do indeed have the note management application installed; and it is NOT what is meant by the words ‘Markdown Editor’ as your initial post asserts.
Marknote is a ‘Notes’ application which watches folders with notes in them - it does pretty much the same job as the proprietary Obsidian.
Something also to be noted - Obsidian does pretty much the same job, but also has a link to ‘edit in default app’ which could open your markdown file in a dedicated Markdown Editor.
Marktext is a markdown editor - a simple writing application which does not handle notes or heirarchies or anything else (and, as such, could be replaced with just about any other editor depending on what kind of interface you like - Kate could manage it, though without the slick interface).
Where is the confusion here? There is no argument… yet you seem to be arguing about it.