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Desk for Mac

Writing, blogging, and notes app for WordPress.

$19.99
In English
Version 3.1
3.5
Based on 2 user rates

Desk overview

Desk is a premium writing experience for all types of writers, bloggers, thinkers, and doers. Whether you're a casual enthusiast, the weekend writer, blogger, or digital publishing professional, you'll find Desk to be a much-needed breath of fresh air. Designed to marry both function and form, it is the desktop publishing client that you've always wanted: Simple, intuitive, powerful, and fast. Write, college, categorize, and tag your work! You can then publish your selected works to multiple WordPress blogs and edit existing posts with ease.

Features
  • Clean, simple, and a true distraction-free interface
  • Typewriter Mode for the serious focus and productivity
  • Themes and styles including font treatments, style, size, and column width
  • Use our streamlined WYSIWYG editor or Markdown.
  • Shortcuts for maximum speed (Formatting, Publishing, and more)
  • Assortment of writing modes and visual styles (Full-Screen, Transparency, Day & Night, Font and Text Treatments, Responsive Layouts, Floating)
  • Save your work locally with powerful "Offline" mode
  • iCloud integration for maximum portability
  • Automatic backups (Autosave) while you write (iCloud and Offline)
  • Access, edit, and update existing posts and drafts
  • Schedule posts for later publishing
  • Drag-and-drop images, add captions
  • Support for embedded media (YouTube, Vimeo and more coming soon)
  • Custom features for each publishing platform (e.g. Featured images, categories, tags, custom slugs/URLs, labels, and more)
  • "Quick Publishing" for even greater speed
  • Preview mode with real-time updating
  • Intuitive new Preview Mode
  • Real-time meta information (Character and word count, Time to Read, Writing Mode)
  • Search and replace, dictation, spelling, grammar, and more
  • Powerful use of native macOS capabilities
  • Export as HTML, RTF, PDF, DOCX, TXT, MD

What’s new in version 3.1

Version 3.1:

Note: Now requires OS X 10.11 or later.

  • Left panel was having some issues
  • Fixed Publishing and Quick Publish problems that users were having
  • Text Editor was having some issues with tables, images, Markdown, WYSIWYG conversion, shortcuts, and even editor view configs. These are now fixed
  • Fixed local documents and drafts acting wonky

Desk for Mac

$19.99
In English
Version 3.1
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3.5

(2 Reviews of Desk)

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Zx81
Zx81
Jul 3 2018
3.1
0.0
Jul 3 2018
0.0
Version: 3.1
Can't find it in the App Store, developer's site not up... Abandonware?
JBX
JBX
Dec 24 2016
1.0
3.0
Dec 24 2016
3.0
Version: 1.0
Not bad once you get use to it. Just needed something lightweight for writing w/o any distractions. I do like the many output formats thought there is no control over font faces and the output is not the same as in the app. I guess with font licensing one could understand that.

Only big issue I have noticed at this point is it dose not come out of full screen well… it disappears. You get 2 empty OS X spaces and have to click it's icon in the dock several times to finally see the app.
hastalavistababy
hastalavistababy
Jan 27 2018
4.0
Jan 27 2018
4.0
Version: null
JBX
JBX
Dec 24 2016
3.0
Dec 24 2016
3.0
Version: null