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# Ulysses is the Best WordPress App (including WordPress's official app)
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/ulysses-is-the-best-wordpress-app/
- Published: 2016-08-08T20:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-08-08T20:20:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

I don't even know why I keep the official WordPress app on my iPhone and iPad anymore. I briefly used it to post to this site, but it's such a hot mess. I don't know how that app works for anyone who doesn't just write short posts with no styling. I can technically put my formatted Markdown posts in there, but it always feels like a toss up whether it's going to work as expected.

This has long had me posting directly from the WordPress admin page on my iPad. I would prefer a native app, but it works. I wrote a [brief post](https://birchtree.me/blog/ulysses-updated-with-wordpress-and-dropbox-support/) last week where I mentioned that Ulysses (my writing app of choice) had been updated to support WordPress publishing, but I don't feel like I gave it the credit this new functionality deserves.

**Ulysses is the absolute best app for publishing to WordPress.** If you have a WordPress site and write at all on iOS, you really should check this out. It's not a simple title and body post to WordPress either, it does it all. Ulysses lets you use:

- Title
- Body
- Tags
- Categories
- Post format
- Publishing time
- Featured image
- Excerpt
- URL slug
- Title link

On top of this, I'm very happy that the developers have decided to let us choose where to post to your site as HTML or Markdown. I write everything in Markdown, and it's so much easier to edit later if need be than HTML. I pleaded with them (nicely, of course) in the beta to make this an option, and I'm so happy that they were able to make this happen.

Ulysses is a universal app and goes for [$24.99 on the App Store](https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/ulysses/id950335311?mt=8&uo=4&at=10I8rH&ref=birchtree.me).