MarsEdit 5 - Blog Editor 4+
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Red Sweater Software
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The #1 Blog Editor for the Mac!
MarsEdit is the best way to write, preview, and publish your blog.
Free to download! Unlock a free trial in the app, purchase a full license, or continue to use the app for free to maintain an archive on your Mac and work locally with your published blog posts. MarsEdit 5 can be unlocked at a discounted upgrade price by users who previously unlocked MarsEdit 4.
- Works with WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, TypePad, Movable Type and dozens of other systems that support standard MetaWeblog and AtomPub interfaces.
- Write when and where you want to, with or without an internet connection. Fine-tune your next post on the boat, plane, or train, and publish it when you're back online.
- Browse your Apple Photos, drag images directly, or insert images into your blog post with the click of a button. MarsEdit uploads them all when you're ready to publish.
- Avoid common browser-based problems like losing your edits by navigating to another page, poor spelling for lack of a spell checker, etc.
- Perfect for professional bloggers and casual writers who don't want to mess around with clunky web-based interfaces. If you're lucky enough to have a Mac, nothing is more powerful or more elegant than MarsEdit.
- Write in Rich Text "WYSIWYG" that will be converted automatically to HTML when you publish, or hand-tune the HTML in a syntax-highlighted code editor. Markdown fan? Write in Markdown in the HTML editor and see a live-preview of the HTML rendering in the preview window.
- Compatible with macOS 10.15.4 or higher.
Coming to the Mac from Windows? MarsEdit is similar to Live Writer, the popular Windows blog editor, but differs in some ways. Ask around and read MarsEdit reviews to decide if MarsEdit is right for you.
What’s New
Version 5.1.4
This update addresses a few issues introduced in the 5.1.3 release, and adds a couple more enhancements:
- Restore functionality of Safari App Extension toolbar button
- Restore pretty-printing of XMLRPC Network Log events
- Large binary upload data such as images are now abbreviated in the Network Log
- Several fixes to the appearance and behavior of the "+" and gear buttons in the main window
- Hyphens, dashes and underscores are now considered as word separators when inferring alt text from filenames
Version 5.1.3 included these changes:
- Avoid a flicker that could occur when switching between blogs in the main window with dark mode enabled
- Fix a bug that caused the MarsEdit icon to bounce in the dock when setting ALT text in Micropost panel
- Fix the background color when scrolling the plain text editor beyond the top or bottom of the post
- No longer display an error when refreshing a WordPress blog and only one post type is not permitted to download
- Rich text editor now cleans up invalid characters that are pasted into it
- Fix a crash that could occur when a blog post has a "title" tag within it
Version 5.1.2 included these changes:
- Restore inference of alt text from image file name if it looks like prose
- Improve inference of post title from content when no explicit title
- Improve reliability of plain-text editor syntax highlighting
- Improve first-time authentication behavior with TextPattern blogs
- Fix a crash while refreshing that affected some WordPress blogs
- Fix a crash that could occur when using AppleScript to create a new draft based on an existing post
- Fix a bug where pasting a link on a freshly-uploaded image could cause it to revert to pending upload state
- Fix a bug that prevented default Title field visibility from being respected after editing a post
Version 5.1.1 included the following changes:
- Restore functionality of the MarsEdit Micropost app extension
- Cmd-Shift-D shortcut now works to send a post from the Micropost panel
- Fix syntax highlighting of entity references within HTML blocks
- Fix a bug in which published posts sometimems remained in Local Drafts folder
- Fix a bug that prevented Mastodon blogs with MP3 media items from refreshing
- Fix a crash when refreshing a WordPress blog with a malformed featured image post
- Improve performance when initializing a data source with lots of posts with featured images
- Restore dynamic hiding/showing of advanced menu items while holding/releasing option key
- Disable formatting keyboard shortcuts in Mastodon Micropost panel, since it doesn't support markup
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Questions or concerns about the app? Get in touch at support@redsweater.com. Thank you!
Ratings and Reviews
Even better. Responsive developer. App does it best
If you have a need to blog, especially to wordpress, and if you ever get tempted to use applescript, share sheets, or shortcuts on your mac, don't look to wordpress to help you, but MarsEdit has forever been focused on bringing the creature comforts of your Mac to your wordpress blogging experience.
Over the years (starting since version 1), I've interacted with the developer and he's always been responsive, thoughtful, and open about the product and plans. Even though I don't have the extra features (*ahem* custom post types *wink*) I'd like to see, this is definitely put together by a developer that wants the experience of blogging to be mac native and work well! And the app delivers 100% -- Version 5 is excellent. so much so that I have it here on the app store and through setapp
SO looking forward to becomig more proficient with MarsEdit
As a long time dead Windows Live Writer (currently Open Live Writer) user, I've been hoping to find something to replace them order to abandon Windows fully and stick with MacOS (hopefully iOS iPad someday?). Having a responsive developer with deep roots in the Apple world constantly debugging and improving gives me hope. Although I'm just a week or so into using MarsEdit, it is almost exactly what I've been looking for ... add the ability to upload photos, video and PDF files to a separate image server ... be it publicly accessible cloud-based (ie. AWS S3, etc) or a SFTP low-cost server ... and I'll never look back. 😉
Indespensible for bloggers
If you have a blog, you need this app. I use it to write and review my writing in a different way to catch typos and code issues. I crank the type-size up and use Georgia so I can read what I wrote. And I use it to create local copies of my posts in case WordPress effs them up somehow. I even use it to write HTML emails via code. Plus, the developer is very responsive to solve problems (though, there are few). Just buy it already.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the kind words and positive review!
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Information
- Seller
- Red Sweater Software
- Size
- 20.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15.4 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Red Sweater Software
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Upgrade from MarsEdit 4 $29.99
- 14-Day Free Trial $0.00
- "MarsEdit 5 Full License" $59.99
- Recent Upgrade from MarsEdit 4 $0.00
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.