Blogging from a desktop or laptop is the way of the past. Now-a-days, serious bloggers have multiple ways of getting content out to their viewers as well as marketing what they have written. The mobile devices went from being an inconvenience for online use to a serious competitor. If you need to send out a quick tweet, take a photo for your next article, or post something in an emergency, it no longer takes anything more than your iPhone or iPad.
We came up with a list of our top five apps to use for blogging that have helped the most this past year. This list is not exhaustive, but all five of these apps are essentials for professional and serious hobbyist bloggers.
- Bufferapp (FREE)
I am always on the look out for the perfect mobile/desktop/web social media application that can do everything imaginable and still be free. While that has yet to happen, one of the best products out there is definitely Bufferapp. Schedule your tweets and status updates in minutes, hassle free and super quick. A marketing must-have for all bloggers. - Adobe Photoshop Express (FREE)
Adobe Photoshop Express software lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit and share photos from your mobile device. You can quickly take a photo with your camera, edit it in Photoshop Express, and post it on your blog. No more having to wait till you get home or carrying around your heavy laptop. Unless you are running a high-res, top-of-the-line quality, photo blog, this app will cover most of your needs. - Evernote (FREE)
Let me be up front with you, I do not use this app enough. I am more of an internal processor when it comes to writing blogs. Yet, it would be terrible of us to not mention this app that can organize your thoughts across so many different platforms. For the person who loves to go out and jot down notes or take photos with their smart phone so that they can create the perfectly written blog articles later, this is your app. (We do have it installed, just haven’t found the best groove with it yet.) - PayPal (FREE)
If you do any kind of online paying, be it advertisements, contests for your blog, paid guest posts, or other purchases, you most likely already have a PayPal account. The mobile app actually takes the web transaction into the real world with taking photos of checks to deposit and the local PayPal Here finder to know where businesses near you who accept PayPal as a form of payment. You need to have this app. - WordPress (FREE)
I had gone about the wrong way of mobile blogging for several months and was disgruntled by all of the errors I would make because of the fickleness of Safari with all of the WordPress buttons I would accidentally hit with my fingers. When I discovered the WordPress app, I began constantly beginning and polishing articles from my iPhone. While the keyboard on the iPhone makes it hard to write whole articles at a time, the large screen of tablets and their additional keyboard components are perfect for the WordPress app. Get it and use it!
What other apps would you have in your top 5 for blogging?
Rachel Blom says
I actually use all of these apps and I gotta say that Evernote is my favorite by far. I do use it for everything, including our whole personal admin, my to do lists, blogging, research and much more. About PayPal, you gotta be careful there in saying it’s free because if you do transactions abroad it’s actually not. I do pay a fee over every amount I receive via PayPal from the US for instance ’cause I’m located in Europa. Just saying 🙂
seventy8Productions says
Understood on the transactions issue with PayPal. The actual app is free, but the transactions, web or smart phone, cost money.
How did you get into the Evernote mode? I have tried twice and failed to fully appreciate it.
Rachel says
My husband was the first to use it, one of the first adopters I’d say and he was completely in love with it. At that time, it was one in its kind, there was nothing like it. So we both got the premium version, bought a Scanner, scanned every document we had into Evernote and threw away thousands of papers. I’ve never felt better. I use it because it frees me of clutter and it keeps all my ‘stuff’ in one place. I have all my admin in it, my to do list (I use the GTD system and I’ve organized my Evernote accordingly), I save everything digital I come across that interests me into Evernote, I have my whole blog organisation in it, the research for my book, everything really. I access it from my Mac or my iPad (don’t have a smartphone). I use it with Skitch, with Twitter, with email and some other apps. But I guess that’s it, you gotta either use it for everything or not at all, because otherwise it’s just another app…
seventy8Productions says
Wow! Now I have something to shoot for.
Mike Andrews says
Have you ever messed with the Blogsy app? (I kind of liked it for a blogspot blog I had, but haven’t tried it much with my new wordpress blog.)
seventy8Productions says
I have not, but I will be checking it out now. Thanks for the recommendation!