Smart phones, almost nonexistent a few years ago, have quickly made themselves essential to a wide segment of the population and especially for us bloggers. Yes, you must admit, without 3G, you’re pretty screwed 🙂
Some applications are really useful to feed our blog and to stay connected with our readers at any time. Here is a non-exhaustive list of applications that can make your blogger’s life easier and help you maximize your time.  Times when you’re in public transport or anything else could be time spent taking care of your blog!
Feeddler RSS Reader is a must-have for all bloggers who want to be informed about the latest news and who want to follow the latest articles published by their favorite blogs. It synchronises well with Google Reader and it lets you organize your readings and marks your items as read. You can also rate, comment, … A simple design but the application is very easy to use and highly customizable!
Blogger – WordPress: The biggest blogging platforms have their applications to allow you to manage your blog posts. Although the idea of writing an entire blog post on my smart phone does not occur to me (I value my mental health), these applications may be useful to make brief changes, manage comments, etc..
Evernote: No need to introduce this very practical application that lets you capture all types of notes (text, images, sounds, web pages, etc.) and to find them again wherever you are: whether it is on your mobile, on your computer or on your tablet. You can save an inspiring picture or any bright idea of article that you will come with at any time of the day.
HootSuite lets you manage multiple accounts Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter …and thus lets you share your new articles with all your followers and even schedule them in advance! For Twitter, you are notified as soon as someone retweets one of your posts, or that someone mentions you etc.. You can even create a feed with keywords that you want to follow (example: #blogging because you are a very studious blogger)!
Google Analytics finally has its own mobile application (only available for Android (for once))! You can view your stats (number of unique visitors, time spent on the blog, etc..) directly from your mobile and even see the activity on your blog in real time.
Facebook Pages Manager (available only on IOS) recently released, allows you to manage your blog’s Facebook page, publish articles and pictures, to comment as a Facebook page manager  and access your statistics. We were waiting for this tool for so long!
Instagram, Twitter, Google +, Linkedin and other social network applications allow you to keep in touch with your readers at any time and to maximize your free time to chat wherever!
What about you? What are your must-have applications for blogging?
