Compatible clients

Useful information

Some clients require the user to insert the XML-RPC URL in order to work. Dreamwidth's is at http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/xmlrpc

Other clients use the Blogger api. The url for that is at http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/blogger

Client	Platforms	Current DW status	Open Source	Notes
Deepest Sender	All; based on FireFox.	Works	Yes
Charm	Python based command line client	Should work, but untested	Yes, GPL
Semagic	Windows client	Works for posting a public entry with tags, haven't tried anything else yet.	Yes, GPL	Very popular client
Petrus Blogger	Multiplatform, in Java	Might work with little modification; current LJ compatible servers hard coded in interface and include IJ and Rossia.org. Logs into IJ okay but couldn't get working with LJ itself.	Yes, BSD	Looks to be made for Russian first, English second. Well designed Java for the Mac.
Logjam	Multiplatform, GTK+ 2	Works	Yes, GPL v2	Currently not maintained, but for many Linux distributions, it is the default Livejournal client.
Gnome-Blog (aka Blog Entry Poster)	Linux (Gnome)	Works	Yes, GPL	Livejournal is hard-coded into software, using DW requires setting up a "Self-run other" type account. Does not support any info besides Entry title and entry body, e.g. no tags, mood, etc.
Drivel	Linux (Gnome)	Works	Yes, GPL v2	Currently not maintained, does not support tags or multiple security levels
BlogTK 1.1	Multiplatform, GTK+ 2	Works w/ blogger API (nothing but entry text, not even titles)	Yes, BSD	2.0 is in alpha, and promises to have fuller Blogger support (which may or may not increase the LJ-clone support)
Kblogger	Linux (KDE)	Needs testing by KDE user	Yes, GPL
Google Docs	webservice, multiplatform	Works w/ Blogger API	No	does not support anything but entry text, not even titles