Blogging Tools and Editors

This page lists applications you can use for blogging offline from your desktop.


w.bloggar is an application that acts as an interface between the user and one or more blogs. In other words, it is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer. Because w.bloggar runs over the Windows GUI, it allows the user to edit posts without being connected to the Internet. Posts can be saved locally and anytime the user wants to publish a new text, one click on the w.bloggar icon in the system tray brings up the editor, and one more click will post it to the weblog. Another great advantage of w.bloggar is that it is compatible with most of the weblog systems available, allowing an advanced user to have only one interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, using different publishing systems. [Price: Free]

Qumana is for smart, experienced bloggers who want maximum freedom in their blogging life - the freedom to post to multiple blogs and blog platforms, and the freedom to make money from advertising with no restrictions. Features advertising options, instant tagging and multiple blog feeds. Qumana makes each post work harder and longer at making you money through AdGenta. [Price: Free]

Post2Blog is a handy desktop blogging client for Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type powered blogs. It is capable of posting from Word, Firefox, Internet Explorer, sending pictures to blogs from Explorer. You can insert images, create hyperlinks, link words to online dictionaries. Images and linked files are automatically uploaded (FTP is supported as well). You can use Word to compose new posts in Word and post them using Post2Blog toolbar for Word. Built-in multi-language spellchecker and thesaurus. Unicode text is supported. Capable of pinging web-services and sending trackbacks automatically. [Price: $14.95]

Thingamablog is an open source, cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your weblogs almost effortless. Unlike most blogging solutions, Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a cgi/php enabled web host, or a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server. So, if you're looking for a way to create and manage a blog, without having to go through the process of installing scripts, Thingamablog is a good choice. [Price: Free]

BlogWizard allows you to create, edit and publish your blog entries to the server where your weblog is located. BlogWizard works with all major weblog services that support the Blogger xml-rpc engine. No need to learn difficult html tags, BlogWizard has an easy to use WysiWyg interface, in which you can manipulate the text anyway you want, make it bold, bigger, smaller, insert images and hyperlinks. The interface is intuitive to use, and deliberately kept easy to use, the desktop is not cluttered with useless buttons or other fancy tricks, just the things you need. We didn't leave out the advanced users, you can edit the entry via the build in text editor as well, needless to say that Blogwizard supports proxy's, so you can work with Blogwizard anywhere, anytime. [Price: $14.95]

ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems. ecto is the successor of the wildly popular Kung-Log, which has been in use by thousands of Mac users. [Price: $17.95]

BloGTK is an open source weblog client that allows you to post to your weblog from Linux without the need for a separate browser window. BloGTK allows you to connect with many weblog systems such as Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, and more. BloGTK is written using Python and PyGTK, and is designed to be fast and simple to use.