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.
This update includes a number of changes to improve the stability, performance, and functionality of the app:
- 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
MarsEdit 5.1 was a substantial update to MarsEdit 5, featuring all new support for Mastodon-based microblogs, improvements to the Microposting interface, and a number of other changes:
- New: Mastodon Support! Download, edit and publish to any Mastodon service
- Microposting panel enhancements
- Resizable and movable
- Supports attaching photos
- Shows character count
- Now shows the blog's own icon as a popup menu for selecting target blog
- Fixed a crash when sharing Wordle results
- Micro.blog specific improvements
- Updated character limits to match current standards
- Fix a bug that prevented posts with blockquotes from reliably showing the title field
- Tumblr-specific improvements
- Can now add multiple photos in Photo posts
- Refreshing a blog no longer re-downloads all previously downloaded photos
- Other Improvements
- Performance improvements when sorting a large number of blog posts with content-derived titles
- Improve design, typography, and wording of New Blog interface
- HEIC images are now auto-converted to JPEG instead of PNG
- HTML Entities are now ignored by syntax-highlighting and live spell checking
- Changes to Custom Field preferences are now reflected immediately in affected post windows
- Enclosure editor now checks URL for file type and size immediately after pasting in
- Revise the Safari extension toolbar icon to look consistent with other extension icons
- Fix a bug that sometimes caused spell checking to fail in Plain Text editing mode
- Fix a bug in which changes to plain text font did not affect markup tags
- Fix a crash that could occur when selecting missing items in the Media Manager
- Fix a crash that could occur when undoing text changes in the Plain Text editor
- Fix a crash that could occur when selecting missing items in the Media Manager
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