I’ve recently purchased MarsEdit 5 and it’s really nice. It’s what Mac Experts would call a “Mac assed Mac app.”
It’s been a real labor of love for its longtime developer and caretaker, Daniel Jalkut, who continues to expertly tweak and polish each feature like the craftsman he is.
I didn’t purchase MarsEdit 4, but had been a happy MarsEdit 3 user for years. When version 4.0 shipped I thought I’d just use the web version of WordPress, and did, up until switching over to Micro.blog full time. When it came to Micro.blog I used the native clients and web versions and they served me just fine.
I’m also a listener of Core Intuition, Daniel and Manton’s wonderful Indie Developer podcast. They’ve been talking about MarsEdit 5 for a while now and when it made it to the App Store I decided I’d purchase it for its new Markdown support, which has been my preferred way to compose blog posts for a while now.
Not long after downloading it I hooked it up to this very blog and created my first post with it. It detected I was using Micro.blog and prompted me to get an app token from Micro.blog. I did that and once I added the token to MarsEdit I was up and running. All of my blog posts pulled down and ready to edit.
The editor is smooth and fast. All of my categories were pulled down and listed on the right side of the post. It is very stable and it publishes posts really fast.
Daniel really cares about his craft and provides excellent customer support. Overall it’s a keeper and a piece of software I can easily recommend if you’re a blogger who uses a Mac.
Of course there is one thing I’d like to see added. An iOS App as a compliment to the desktop app would be amazing. I do compose many blog posts on my iPhone because it’s the computer I have with me all the time. I’m actually composing this post on my iPhone with Tot. Why? Because I’m chillin’ on the couch having a beer and I’m too lazy to go get my laptop. 😁
MarsEdit 5.0 by Red Sweater Software lists for $59.95 and can be purchased directly from the Red Sweater website or the Mac App Store.