I have no need to post blogs from my phone, but the capability exists and I must explore it. This morning I downloaded wpToGo and PostBot from the Android market and ran a quick comparison. Screen shots of the two apps would be a great idea. But this is Saturday morning, and I’m not exerting myself to that degree yet.
Setup – Winner: wpToGo
Both programs are easy to setup and support multiple accounts. This is great because you can log in as different users (ex: admin vs your normal account) on the same blog or log in to different blogs completely. Excellent.
wpToGo has a cleaner user interface in general, and for that it wins the setup round. Although, I think the publisher could do well by removing the post options that are not related to setting up the blog. When you setup a blog you’ll be asked to choose how to place images, what size images should be, how they should be aligned, and what resolution they will be displayed. This should be removed from the setup screen and accessed elsewhere instead.
Posting – Winner: wpToGo
Once again the wpToGo UI dominates PostBot. Not only that, but when you first log in wpToGo pulls a list of the most recent posts. In my case it pulled every post back to the start of this blog. PostBot didn’t have this feature, so editing previous entries is out of the question on PostBot, which is a massive miss.
Both editors give you the options to add pictures, categories, and publish or save as a draft. wpToGo goes an extra step and gives buttons for bold, italics, links, block quotes, and tags. Both editors are pure HTML, so you can always manually add tags where needed. Once again wpToGo could do well by removing some of the options, such as adding a picture, from the main layout and moving them under a menu option instead, which is the route PostBot has taken.
Final Verdict: wpToGo wins by a long shot, but its editing screen can take some lessons from PostBot.
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