Best Blogging Apps For Mac Users: 2024 Edition

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I’m a huge fan of desktop tools that can help me in blogging and increase my productivity.

I prefer desktop tools over online tools because some of them give an option to work offline. Working without the internet is useful for ultimate productivity. I end up opening at least 10-15 tabs and forgetting that I’m supposed to be writing!

If you also have the same condition as me, I suggest you start using software that can let you work offline. I know it’s hard to unplug from the internet, but if you do it once, you will notice the increased productivity that comes with this.

You will be able to do much more work in much less time.

I have compiled this list of the best blogging apps for Mac. These are all apps I currently use and you should also consider using them to increase your productivity.

(Note: Not all of them work offline…)

Best Blogging Software for Mac OS

WordPress app for Mac

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WordPress launched an official Mac app that works for WordPress.com blogs or self-hosted WordPress blogs using the Jetpack plugin.

WordPress for desktops will soon come to Windows & other operating systems. You can download the Mac version for free from here.

Snag It

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Taking screenshots is part of our day to day blogging work and we need to edit the image and resize it before adding it to our blog post.

Snag It is an image editing tool that I have been using for the last two years. This is a complete Mac image editing app that will take care of all your image needs. This is a premium tool, but you can download it for free for 30 days.

Once you start using the Snag It app, you will be hooked.

Check out the above video to learn how I use Snag It.

ImageOptim

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A good post is incomplete without a good image. But before you add an image to your post, you need to compress it so that the image isn’t so large.

The smaller the size of the image, the faster your blog post will load. In the past, I have made the mistake of not optimizing my images, and they were as big as 1MB. Imagine if a post takes more than 10 seconds to load, would you wait around that long? Probably not.

With the internet world moving to smartphones, the goal is to make blogs load as fast as possible. Optimization of images is crucial in page load speed.

ImageOptim is a free image compression tool for Mac, and I have already talked about it earlier.

This lightweight app will help you optimize all of your images. Simply drag and drop the image on the ImageOptim workspace and it will do the compression automatically. This is a free app, and you can download it right now.

Camtasia

Camtasia Mac Video Blogging app
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Video blogging is now a mainstream part of blogging, and it’s important for you to create videos for your blog.

If you are doing a whiteboard kind of video, you can use your DSLR camera or even your Smartphone camera. But if you want to do a video like the one I have embedded above (Screencasts), you need a video app that will let you capture, edit, and publish your screencast videos.

Camtasia is the best available video app for Mac, which every blogger and internet marketer should use. Again, this is a paid tool, but you can download it for free and try it for 30 days.

This is a seriously must-have Mac app for video bloggers. 

Mac FTP tool (CyberDuck) + (FileZilla)

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Being a blogger, you must have your own server where your website is hosted on. Chances are you will need to login to your FTP server at times to make changes.

It’s important that you have some kind of FTP software. There are various FTP apps for Mac, and I will suggest two of them:

  1. Cyberduck
  2. FileZilla

You can use either of these FTP tools and both work great.

They are very lightweight and designed for efficiency. You can save your FTP login info within the tool for an even greater increase in productivity.

I personally prefer Cyberduck, but if you moved from Windows to Mac and have used FileZilla before, you will probably like using the same tool now.

Integrity

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This app is more like an SEO toolkit for your Mac OS.

It scans all the links of your blog and shows you which links are broken.

The best part is that it works with any blogging platform. If you are on WordPress, you can always use a broken link checker, but if you have a huge site, the broken link checker might end up freezing your hosting.

This is one reason I started using Integrity. You can read this tutorial to learn how to use integrity. It’s a free app, and you can download it for free from the Mac App store.

Here is a quick list of other Mac apps that I use for everyday blogging:

The above list provides must-have blogging apps for your Mac. 

If you are using any other blogging apps on your Mac OS which are helping you with your blogging, I would love to know about them.  Share your tips with me in the comments.

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A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

27 thoughts on “Best Blogging Apps For Mac Users: 2024 Edition”

  1. David Perkins

    DESK is not available in the US. Does anyone know why?

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