I have been using MarsEdit during last month and during that time I have posted several posts using it. I have been using trial version and I was considering to buy it, though it’s $40 price is expensive for a blogging software. I have come across Metropolis from CHIARO Software. I think Metropolis is only for wordpress though. Both of them are very good applications and have very similar functions.
Common Functions:
- HTML and Rich Text editing
- Previewing post
- Local Drafts
- Setting post properties (Publication date, tags, categories, turning comments on/off, allowing/disallowing pingbacks)
- Inserting images into posts
- Allows editing of posts and pages
- Allows custom stylesheets for previewing your post
- Spell check
- Retina display support
Pros of Metropolis:
- Twitter integration (automatically publishes your post on twitter, allows tracking who tweeted your post)
- Allows directly seeing comments on your site and approving, deleting them etc.
- Cheaper, $20 is half of the price of MarsEdit
- Formatting toolbar in Rich Text Editor
- Allows setting slug for post
- Allows editing of excerpt of your post
Pros of MarsEdit
- Media manager, allows resizing of images within the application
- Blog This bookmarklet to reblog something you have seen on the web
- Supports other blogging sites other than wordpress
- Integrates with other text editors for editing HTML Text, like BBEdit
- Allows javascript and plugins on preview screen
- Support for WordPress Private and Pending Post status
- Macro support for repeated actions
