Blogging Client Comparison

I’ve been using Drivel for the longest time but I’ve realized that there are other tools I could use for blogging. And here’s a short comparison of the three tools I’ve used.

Drivel

I’ve heard about Drivel through friends who have been using LiveJournal and they use Drivel as their blogging client. It’s a really awesome client for LiveJournal because you could really choose which user icon to use, as well as select your privacy filter. Your custom filters are actually reflected in the choices. Aside from that you could choose which blog you’d be posting to. It could be that you’re writing for your community’s blog.

However, there is still something lacking in Drivel when it comes to WordPress. You could not input tags to your blog entry. It’s just that it’s so easy to select your blog right away when you launch the application. The thing is that it makes you choose which blog you’d be writing for from the beginning. I think this might be because different blogging platforms have different options, etc.

Tomboy

First and foremost it’s a sticky note application for the desktop. It’s very easy to take notes with it as well include some formatting of your text immediately. But because it’s primarily a sticky notes application, you cannot retrieve your recent blog entries. And you could just selectively post whichever note into your blog after you’ve written it.

Then again, it’s not made to be a blogging client. This is why I could not really use it as a primary blogging client.

BloGtk

This blogging client, so far, is the nicest one for WordPress. I read somewhere that you could also use it to post on LiveJournal but I doubt that it will be as awesome as Drivel. It might not have a rich text editor but it does have buttons that could help you with mark-up. You could even post blog entries with tags in its advanced tab. Also, you could preview your blog entry just to make sure that it will look the way you want it to be.

So at the end of the day, I really am going with BloGtk. It is the niftiest one that I could use with WordPress. As much as I use LiveJournal, I post to my WordPress blogs more. If you’ve got other blogging clients to recommend, I’d be more than happy to try them out.