Blog Writing Software for the Mac

These are some of the Mac blog clients, or editors, I've tried. A good blog client lets you:

• Blog without a live Internet connection.
• Work with your favorite browser to capture pages you've visited quickly.
• Publish and retrieve your blog posts from the program.

Visit the sites, and read my reviews below.

• MacJournal ($35)
• MarsEdit ($30)
• ecto ($18)

MacJournal
I started using this as my preferred writing tool, instead of Word or another bloated word processor. I really like full screen editing. I can drag a URL from my browser's address bar and MacJournal displays the page title with a link to the URL. This is my favorite feature when I'm surfing. I like the WYSIWYG editor, too.
Its ability to publish and edit blog posts off line are a plus, making it a legitimate blog editor. Plus, it supports tags for your posts. On the downside, the post downloader isn't completely reliable, so it's really just a good place to start blog posts. I find myself always having to put the finishing touches on the posts using the blog's on-line tools.

MarsEdit
A cross-platform commercial program, this software excels at getting the latest version of your blog, but the editor is text only: great if you use a text markup dialect like Markdown.

ecto
I like the editor more than MarsEdit, that's for sure. It's got a great WYSIWYG editor, and you can toggle to HTML -- that rocks. Plus, I can drag links in from the browser address bar. Very nice.illumineX :: ecto - blog editor for Mac OS X