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MarsEdit is a blog editor for OS X that makes editing your blog like writing email, with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support.
It works with with most blog services including WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, Movable Type, TypePad, and many others.
It works with with most blog services including WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, Movable Type, TypePad, and many others.
What's New
Version 3.6.3:
- Fix to Tumblr image uploads to preserve original image filetype (e.g. JPEG)
- Fix a bug where image sizing constraints were enabled even when full-size option selected
- Fix a bug that prevented reliable searching/replacing of multiple spaces in Rich Text mode
- Fix a crash that would occur if the "Send to Blog" button was clicked twice instead of once
- Fix an issue with OS X Mavericks where window positions changed when switching from a full screen app to MarsEdit
Version 3.6.3:
- Fix to Tumblr image uploads to preserve original image filetype (e.g. JPEG)
- Fix a bug where image sizing constraints were enabled even when full-size option selected
- Fix a bug that prevented reliable searching/replacing of multiple spaces in Rich Text mode
- Fix a crash that would occur if the "Send to Blog" button was clicked twice instead of more...
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, OS X 10.6 or later
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| Version Downloads:735 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Demo |
| Date:02 Jan 2014 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $39.95 |
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MarsEdit is a blog editor for OS X that makes editing your blog like writing email, with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support.
It works with with most blog services including WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, Movable Type, TypePad, and many others.
It works with with most blog services including WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, Movable Type, TypePad, and many others.
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Aglee reviewed on 14 Dec 2013
Having local copies has come in handy a few times to do a quick search across my whole blog for some bit of text -- perhaps to make a quick change across multiple articles. It's so easy I take it for granted now.
There is one non-blogging purpose I've used MarsEdit for a couple of times. I've used the Markdown feature to dash off an email that I really wanted to be in rich text, with bullet points and distinct headers. I enter the Markdown text, copy the rich text from the Preview window, and paste it in my email.
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CFrag reviewed on 29 Sep 2013
In the context of your blog, ME allows you to create and update articles as well as stand-alone pages. I like the ability to switch between HTML and Rich Text editing (I am *not* the world's greatest HTML buff), and seeing the results in the preview window updating live is a great help. Since you can do much of that from within WP itself, the killer feature of ME is being able to create articles off-line and later synch them to your Blog. During sync, articles (and static pages) that I wrote on-line are synced back to ME. I found that ME does this very well. Offline editing is important to me because I compose most of my articles on my *ooooold* laptop, being on the road, between meetings, or (usually) sitting in a quaint, but lovely Coffee Shop without internet access. I don't know why, but that's simply where I write best.
In a direct comparison with on-line editing from within WP I found that I prefer to edit my text in ME, and then upload. A personal preference, for sure, but still...
There are some minor quibbles or features that I wish ME would implement to make my experience even more pleasant (chiefly amongst them being able to select between templates for common wp templates like 'twenty-eleven'. Not everyone is able to extract HTML formatting from WP's templates and transfer them to ME. Well, at least *I* am not. Having that (or a template that is close enough) would really be the icing on the cake.
And now to my current pet topic:
To those who think that ME's price is 'too expensive': Please reconsider. I know that in the age of the App Store where the ongoing race to the bottom kills software fast it has become fashionable call software that cost more than $1 'expensive'.
But seriously, you as the customer have three options:
- Don't purchase because the value isn't right for you. Fair, but please do not comment on the software's features.
- Purchase because you DO find the value proposition justifiable. Then comment on the features, but do not say it should be cheaper. You got it's worth.
- Shut up, make a better product, and offer it for less. *That* is what 'real men' do. Guess why there aren't better offline WP editors available for less available on the Mac.
Personally, I find the price for ME to be well justifiable. It's rock solid. You get personal support from the Author, which I find very appealing. But most importantly: It costs less than 10 coffees (I average two at my coffee shop, so I spend more in a week on coffee than I have spent on ME in eternity), for crying out loud! Is that really expensive? Admittedly, my coffee is - but then I'm prepared to pay for that as well.
Ok, off the soapbox...
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MetroMrX reviewed on 22 Jun 2012
$9.99 justify. Higher not.
I rate this 4.5 stars to get the devs do some thinking. If next time the price is the same I will rate this 2 stars.
Think about it.
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I hope that you are joking when telling that you would give two stars to the product next time, if the price does not go down: what everybody expects from a rating is an evaluation of the quality of the product, not of the price.The price issue can be mentioned if the comments, if you feel the need to do so. But rating a quality app poorly just because you are not willing to pay for it would not be fair, and not be helpful to other users.
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But as said, it is the best in the Mac world.
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ylluminate reviewed on 19 May 2012
I understand that the developer for MarsEdit is a one man shop and we have to give him a break in this regard of price, but as far as features go, he should be able to exceed MS Live Writer. At the end of the day, if he could just surpass the feature limitation I think we could justify the cost.
Dev: have you considered a lower price for a limited time until you've surpassed the feature set of Live Writer?
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I really wish MacUpdate had an edit option for these posts.
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Offering MarsEdit at a lower price would ultimately be bad for the application, because if I can't make a living from the app, I am not going to continue to invest in the development of the product. It's not really a mass-market app where lowering the price leads to massively higher sales.
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You don't have to argue with me about the Winbloze vs OS X stance @Csean2006. I'm a unix and OS X veteran of >15 years. You're preaching to the choir and running down some sincere input to help the dev vs running down the app.
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So there in is a market for MarsEdit to exploit.
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Thomas1977 reviewed on 13 Mar 2012
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msager reviewed on 15 Feb 2012
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Surfspirit reviewed on 21 Jun 2011
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Jaddie reviewed on 06 Apr 2011
I like how the general feel of the app is nimble, yet there's access to all of the under-the-hood kinds of things, too.
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To iron it out, I added two on other comments of yours.
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Devin27 rated on 17 Jul 2013
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Cpoetter rated on 10 Nov 2012
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Greedyfranky rated on 09 Nov 2012
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Gerylaurent rated on 09 Nov 2012
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Thinkd369 rated on 05 Aug 2012
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jungyong rated on 20 May 2012
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MetroMrX rated on 10 Mar 2012
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Priosantos-Jan rated on 23 Feb 2012
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JacobsIvan rated on 01 Dec 2011