“Friendly Competition Between MarsEdit and Ecto”

It's been fun to watch the friendly competition between MarsEdit and Ecto.

This morning, Brent wrote about crash protection in MarsEdit. Adriaan responded (in the comments) with confirmation that Ecto does that too.

Right now the two apps seem to be very similar. Hopefully the next generation will show some real envelope-pushing, experimentation, and unique features. Choosing which one to use now is as much about which developer you know or like better as it is about the application itself.

What I'd really like to see, of course, is a cross-platform editor that supports all the extra stuff in Conversant, including (especially) multiple categorization and keyword fields, and the ability to publish a post to any URL on the site. Unfortunately, I don't expect either editor to grow a bunch of Conversant-only features unless a lot of users requested them.