http://www.anysim.net
http://www.bmw-eba.de.tl

I’ve also tested several other similar products, but I always end up Ecto in the end.

I found myBlogEdit to be interesting as well.

- jens -

I haven’t really played around with MacJournal but after toying with Ecto I dropped it. I find it best to write in the browser with WordPress these days. Also, pen and notepad seem to work well.

-Mig

Who has given Mariner Software’s MacJournal a try? I am curious what your and other bloggers think of MacJournal. Looks really strong to me. What do you think? Why?

Thanks. Be well.

thanks for sharing, I’ve been looking for a blogging editor since leaving PC for Mac. I loved windows editor but now need a replacement. It appears that the general consensus is that ecto 3 beta is the way to go. I’ll give it a shot. Thanks again, I found the discussion here helpful.

-Mig

None…

I love MacJournal, but it doesn’t have enough support for HTML editing which I need.

I bought ecto right off, because it was a happy medium for me between MacJournal and MarsEdit. I love the nested journals, and that is awesome. I use it to maintain content on a number of blogs, and on an increasing number of client sites.

It literally stopped me from pulling my hair out.

While none of the sites I maintain use WordPress as the engine, it works well with journalspace, joomla and other engines I use.

I think it was worth every penny of the $17.95….

I encountered similar issues such as those Jim refers to in the past, but since moving to version 3 I’ve had no trouble at all managing posts on either of my personal blogs.

Troy over at The Geeky Artist (see reference links below) appears to have given it a try and is pleased with the results.

Let’s get the facts straight. ecto is OK for some blogging platforms. But if you use WordPress, it breaks with every WP update. For instance, when WP was updated from 1.5 to 2.0, the image uploading feature broke and hasn’t worked well since. Overall, when using ecto with WordPress used to be decent, but hasn’t been in a long, long time.

Requests for support go unheard, and when the guy does respond, it’s almost always the same, which is “it’s a WordPress problem.”

If you use Drupal, support is barely there at all.

No matter which platform you use, you can’t use the RichText editor or you will have your paragraph breaks and basic formatting completely hosed in most cases. Even working in HTML mode is unreliable.

ecto used to be awesome. But it has sucked wind for over two years now. I desperately want to like this app, because it offers so much more than other blogging apps. Unfortunately, most of those offerings don’t work worth a darn.