This Is the Best Blogging App for Mac
The most exciting internet trend of the last few years is the return of the blog. People are writing again. This is cool.
I use the word “blog” a little more loosely than before. The great revival has taken many forms—email newsletters, for example, remind me a lot of the early days of blogging. But I’ve also noticed that in our post-Twitter and Facebook social media hell , more people seem to be opening websites and posting their thoughts on websites they own. I’m certainly back to using my personal blog more often after setting up the WordPress integration with Fediverse – for the first time in over a decade I have an active comments section and I love it.
The problem for a creator is that writing, editing and submitting articles on the web version of WordPress is a bit of a slog. I generally prefer to use local applications that are on my computer whenever possible, so I was very happy to find Marcedit . It’s a beautiful Mac app that makes managing your blog much easier. First, it’s faster than loading WordPress and integrates perfectly with my operating system.
Open the app and you’ll be prompted to add your blog URLs – you can add as many as you like. Do this and you will see all your posts and pages in one place.
Marcedit works with most blogging platforms.
I tested MarsEdit on my WordPress site, but it also works with Micro.blog , Tumblr, TypePad and Movable Type, as well as any service blog that supports the standard MetaWeblog or AtomPub interface.
Besides providing a clean interface for draft posts, adding images is great—the app integrates with both Apple Photos and local folders on your computer. You can set the size and remove metadata in just a few clicks. Again, in my experience, this is much faster than finding an image and uploading it to WordPress.
More flexible than most blogging platforms.
There are a few other features worth noting. If you’re a Markdown user, you can write your posts using it, something most blogging systems don’t offer, and Marcedit even supports syntax highlighting (if you know, you know). And you can write and save your messages entirely offline, which you obviously can’t do in a browser.
The app isn’t perfect. I haven’t found a way to use it to manage comments, which is disappointing – if it were supported, I’d rarely need to open WordPress at all. However, for writing, publishing and editing, it does everything I need.
MarsEdit costs $59.95 for a one-time purchase or $10 per month as part of Setapp , a package that includes several more popular apps . Whether it’s worth the money or not depends on how often you blog. I came back to it and think the app is a bargain.