Five Mobile Apps that Every Blogger Should Have

Blogging and writing have always been about expressing yourself and your opinions on the internet. Smartphones such as iPhones and Androids are increasingly becoming the main means for communication, whether it be on the bus, sitting in a coffee shop, or just browsing during quiet time in work.

With huge amounts of innovation spurring from advances in technology, particularly in the mobile phones and tablet industry, bloggers these days are offered the opportunity to not only blog on the go but conduct many blog related tasks.

More importantly in this day and age it is hard to be able to sit down and actually think of something new every week. Thankfully to remove the bloggers block smartphones have smartened up and developed various apps to enable you to blog and search for inspiration.

1. WordPress

This is an obvious and undoubtedly most popular blogging platform on the internet. This app is compatible for wordpress blogs hosted on your own site as well as the blogs that are hosted on the main wordpress.com website. It allows you to perform many essential tasks such as creating, editing, publishing, reviewing comments and publishing photos and videos from your camera.

This is an essential app

2. Google Drive

This is a  fantastic app that allows bloggers to store all kinds of documents like Word, Excel, images, audio videos and much much more. Not only does it store them, the app will sync the documents across multiple devices linked to your Google account. Once synchronized, bloggers can access their files wherever they are. It offers a sleek interface for accessing, moving, and sharing your stored files. Also, the built-in document editors are easy to use and come with a multitude of formatting tools.

This is a super handy source to have, especially if you have a blog post that’s halfway done on your laptop, you can finish it off on your mobile phone!

3.SwiftKey Keyboard

Sick of the typos and using the ridiculously small keyboard on your tablets or smartphones? This is the app for you. Not only does it auto-correct your typos, it also offers word predictions based on your typing habits. So, for example, SwiftKey if you’re frequently firing off the phrase “see you later,” those three words are more likely to appear in succession in the app’s predictions. Instead of typing out those 11 characters, you may eventually see a suggestion for “see” followed by “you” followed by “later.”You can even personalise the word predictions by asking the keyboard to learn your choice of words on Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and your previous blogs.

 4. Flipboard

Having only launched recently on mobile devices, this app allows users to browse through their multiple social media feeds such as Facebook and Twitter in a beautiful flipping manner. It consolidates a stream of important stories for those who are too busy. As a blogger, using this app is a great source of information that can give you fresh ideas on what to write about.

With Flipboard, you don’t have to worry about slow-loading pages, ugly site designs or general disorganization. All content is displayed very cleanly using a minimalistic design, and Flipboard makes it easy for you to share articles you like.

And last but by no means least…

5.Dictionary.com

For all those that struggle for words and strive to be a little bit creative in your writing, this app is the business. If you want to find an alternative word in your post, or want to find the meaning of a word or a phrase. This is the solution to all your problems. This app is especially useful for bloggers who don’t speak English natively or struggle to spell.

Mairead