I am looking for a blog editor for Mac.
There are free options available – Thingamablog, Qumana, Flock, ScribeFire and Bleezer. But they all suck. And they are all ugly.
So I moved on to MarsEdit, and I actually liked it. All the necessary functionalities are provided:
- Author multiple blogs
- Integration with text editor – killer feature
- Save as local draft
- Specify tags, slug and categories
And I loved the Mac behavior where you can have multiple window open, means that I can edit multiple entries and switch them around with Cmd+~.
MarsEdit doesn’t have a WYSIWYG editor, but it does have a preview window. Just a plain HTML preview though, unlike in Windows Live Writer where you can see how you entry would look like with the current theme.
But I guess it’s okay, theme preview is a nice thing to have, but not crucially necessary.
I might just buy this app, if not for this one beef that I had with MarsEdit. Poor support for image editing.
I miss it so much how Windows Live Writer can do simple image editing like resizing, cropping, or adding drop shadow. WLW can even automatically upload two version of the image – thumbnail and the bigger one when you click on it.
And worse in MarsEdit, when you insert image it will be automatically uploaded. So every time there’s some mistake or minor change, you have to re-upload the image. That’s not the usual forgiven nature of Mac (WLW provides such function btw).
To summarize it, MarsEdit has everything that WLW has, except for simple image editing. And it costs $30 more.
P/S: I have just tried using both MarsEdit and WLW to edit this entry back-to-back. Bad idea. Don’t do that.










