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

Clients specifically designed to work with LJ may request the posting URL, which is http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/flat

List of Blog Editors

In addition to posting, clients include backup tools. Please test those as well.

Crossplatform

Client	Platforms	Current DW status	Open Source	Notes
ljupdate	Emacs	Works	Yes, GPL	Set lj-default-server to "www.dreamwidth.org"
Scribefire	All; based on FireFox.	Posting works. Can't edit tags, privacy, or other metadata.	Yes, GPL	You must set up a working account at any other service then edit this to reflect your Dreamwidth URL, Username, Password and use http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/blogger/ for the API URL.
Deepest Sender	All; based on FireFox.	Posting works, including friends only, but doesn't retrieve custom access groups. Can't edit read list/access list through client.	Yes	Set http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/flat as the posting URL.
Charm	Python based command line client	works, except for custom access groups.	Yes, GPL
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.
Google Docs	webservice, multiplatform	Works w/ Blogger API	No	does not support anything but entry text, not even titles
JLJ	Perl	Works	Yes	Command line client, development halted in 2006
jbackup.pl	Command line	No	Yes	Didn't work out of the box using --site=dreamwidth.org
LJXP	crossposting plugin for WordPress, php	works as of 2.0.5	Yes, MIT License	Back in active development, supports crossposting categories and/or tags as tags, basic privacy levels, comment on or off, header/footer.
JournalPress	crossposting plugin for WordPress, php	works	Yes	Supports multiple journals and communities, per-post-per-journal userpics, crossposting categories and/or tags as tags, basic privacy levels (extensible support for custom fgroups via an additional plugin), comments on or off, music/mood/location, header/footer.
Flickr	web service	does not work as of October 2009	No	More info at getting-started comm
Twittinesis	Twitter	apparently works	not stated	Bare-bones Twitter import with few options at the moment, explicitly lists Dreamwidth as supported.
ljmigrate	Python	works as back up tool. Migration of journal not tested.	Yes, BSD license	Known bug: HTML index file isn't updated on subsequent runs of the migrator.
News readers	Multi	Under discussion as of November 12, 2010, patch available	Multi	More information and specifics: NNTP

Windows

Client	Platforms	Current DW status	Open Source	Notes
Semagic	Windows client	Posting works, including friends only, but doesn't retrieve custom access groups.	Yes, GPL	Very popular client. If tags do not cross-post to DW at first, "...tags [can be] enabled for Insanejournal.com and any other site after opening an entry with tags in the history window." more info here how to set up Semagic for Crossposting
LJ-Archive	Windows client (Mono version available)	No	Yes, zlib/libpng License
Windows Live Writer	Windows client	Posting works, no friends-list options.	No.	Has no DW custom options, is fairly generic bloggy software. Tagging appears buggy to non-worky. Select LJ options, then, the Remote Posting URL to use is http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/blogger.
LJ Sec	Windows client (Mono version available)	No	Yes	It's possible to get it to work, with a tiny bit of tweaking. See here.

Macintosh

Client	Platforms	Current DW status	Open Source	Notes
iJournal	Crash reports for 10.6.x	Posting works, including friends only and custom access groups. Installs quickly and recognizes DW account on first login. Current Music is automatically retrieved from iTunes. Client allows you to edit most recent entry and switches easily between different user accounts. Customizable toolbar and limited HTML preview.	Yes	Much better option for Mac users than MarsEdit. Cannot open separate windows for different posts and crossposting requires an additional step, but these problems may be solved in the next update.
MarsEdit	Mac	Works	No	"It asked for the URL for my DW account, then couldn’t download the settings, asking if I wanted the interface to edit them myself. Ultimately, I told it that the API endpoint was dreamwidth.org/interface/blogger, and that sorted everything out. Clicking through to view the webpage worked beautifully. Authorizing the Flikr image importer worked fine. Adding an image to the draft is previewing properly. I still have a message in my options window that says there are no options for this weblog, but I don’t know what to expect there."
Phoenix	Mac OS X , Mac Classic version available	Posting works; allows public, private and access-only but not custom groups. Tags, title, location, music, mood, and userpics work. Editing entries yields an error. No spellcheck.	Yes	Client is similar in form and function to Semagic. Does not allow for fast user switching. To configure for use at Dreamwidth, enter your username and password at the login screen, then tick the more options box and enter www.dreamwidth.org under livejournal server.
Xjournal	Mac OS X	Does not work (on anything but LJ itself)	Yes	Primary developer has moved on. Some recent updates have been made by a couple of developers at the Xjournal LJ community but it's unclear whether anyone plans to port this over for DW.
asLJ	Mac OS X 10.5 or later, Universal Binary	Works	No	Has Dreamwidth on their list of supported servers, but has not added Public/Access/Private in place of Public/Friends/Custom. Friends works as if it were Access anyway, so far. Allows for cross-posting, but only if you've set up additional journal accounts in the program. Integrates with iTunes, and downloads the list of icons on the server. All in all, not a bad client.
MacJournal	Mac OS X 10.4.9 or higher, Audio feature: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher	works	No	I used the manual setup, chose Live Journal as the type, and used http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/xmlrpc for the Post URL. The software allowed up to 200 entries to be downloaded locally. The Access/Subscription split doesn't work as usual, but may allow preview of icons. I can't tell, from my connection.
iDream	Mac	Currently in development; see wiki page	Yes	This has been static for a long time; unknown if/when it might be released.

Linux

Client	Platforms	Current DW status	Open Source	Notes
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)	KDE 3 vers. Doesn't work, but KDE 4.2.2 version does.(V. 1.0-alpha2) crashy. Follow the instructions on this wiki to set it up. Blog-ID is your Dreamwidth username.	Yes, GPL	Use the Blogger api, and enter this in 'Homepage URL': http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/blogger Soon to be replaced by Blogilo
Bilbo Blogger	Linux (KDE)	Doesn't work, soon to be replaced by Blogilo	Yes, GPL	0.9 Support for Livejournal.
Benzaiten	Linux (Gnome)	Entry posting works great (YAY, TAGS SUPPORT), Friends features don't work	Yes, GPLv2	Active maintainer ‽, very similar to Drivel

Mobile

Client	Platforms	Current DW status	Open Source	Notes
LJ2ME	Mobile phones, in Java	Works	No