Desktop Blogging Software, The Ultimate List

Revi's Father February 01, 2011 1 comment

If you are unfamiliar with the term Desktop blogging software, think of it as a tool to blog with application instead of logging into your Blogger or WordPress. In fact, a lot of bloggers and probloggers has been using them for quite a while and there's tonnes of reason why they love it. These software allows one to manage multiple blogs of multiple platforms, write articles on the fly, as well as perform functions like those you can do on admin page. And because it is a desktop client, you don't wait for pages to load.

Here's a collection of 20 desktop blogging applications that we've come to know of. Have a look, try some out. Who knows, you might like to blog from desktop after all. Full list after jump.

BlogJet

Platform: Windows only

Price: Free trial / €29.95

Supports: WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger, MSN Live Spaces, Blogware, BlogHarbor, Squarespace, Drupal, Community Server, etc.

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Deepest Sender

Platform: Firefox, SeaMoney, XULRunner

Price: Free

Supports: LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress, MSN Live Spaces, meta Weblog

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Flock Browser

Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux

Price: Free

Supports: Blogger, Blogsome, LiveJournal, WordPress, Xanga, Moveable Type

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Windows Live Writer

Platform: Windows (XP or Vista)

Price: Free

Supports: Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress Type

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Ecto

Platform: Windows, Mac

Price: Free Trial / $17.95

Supports: Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, SquareSpace, TypePad, WordPress, and more

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Bleezer

Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux

Price: Free

Supports: Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, SquareSpace, TypePad, WordPress, and more

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BlogTK

Platform: Linux

Price: Free

Supports: Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress

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Drivel Journal Editor

Platform: Linux

Price: Free

Supports: LiveJournal, Blogger, MovableType, Advogato, WordPress, Drupal

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Gnome Blog

Platform: Linux

Price: Free

Supports: Blogger, Advogato, Movable Type, WordPress, LiveJournal, Pyblosxom

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Newz Crawler

Platform: Windows

Price: Free Trial / $24.95

Supports: Blogger, Metaweblog, MovableType or LiveJournal API supporting website

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Performancing ScribeFire

Platform: Firefox

Price: Free

Supports: WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, TypePad, LiveJournal, Windows Live Spaces and more.

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MarsEdit

Platform: Mac

Price: Free Trial / $29.95

Supports: WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, LiveJournal, Drupal, and Vox and more.

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ThingamaBlog

Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux

Price: Free

Supports: LiveJournal, Blogger, MovableType, Advogato, WordPress, Drupal

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w.Bloggar

Platform: Firefox, Internet Explorer

Price: Free

Supports:WordPress, MovableType, TypePad, Drupal, b2evolution, Nucleus CMS, Squarespace, Community Server, BlogEngine.NET

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RocketPost2

Platform: Windows

Price: Free Trial / $49

Supports:Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, TypePad, MSN Spaces, BlogHarbor, Drupal, dasBlog, .Text and SquareSpace

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BlogDesk

Platform: Windows

Price: Free

Supports:WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity and ExpressionEngine

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Post2Blog

Platform: Windows

Price: Free ~~Trial / $14.95~~

Supports:WordPress, MovableType, Blogger, Tyepad

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Qumana

Platform: Windows, Mac

Price: Free Trial / $14.95

Supports:Angelfire, Blogger/Blogspot, BlogHarbor, Blogware, Bryght, DiaryLand, Drupal, LiveJournal, MovableType, MSN Spaces, Tripod, TypePad, Roller, SquareSpace, WordPress.com, WordPress.org