A. CasalenaThe Squarespace iPhone App is Live!
After months of testing, re-testing, fine-tuning and development, the Squarespace iPhone App has finally been approved by both ourselves and Apple (no small feat!).
The Squarespace iPhone app has a completely custom user interface we have developed in house that matches your Squarespace site's look and feel completely. We've also developed the only iPhone application on any major publishing platform that contains a iPhone native statistics interface, tightly integrating your phone, your site, and your data. The main features of the application include:
- Posting - Snap photos on your phone, and quickly post them to your blog! Or easily draft blog posts directly from your "Post" tab -- all of your current tags and categories will be there.
- Content Management - All of your posts will be accessible directly from your "Manage" tab. You can edit drafts, delete posts and preview posts with ease.
- Multiple Account Management - Your "Accounts" tab allows you to manage content for multiple Squarespace sites. You can save a draft post for one site and then easily jump to another site to schedule a post for later in the day.
- Viewing Your Statistics - You can now view your Squarespace site statistics right from the application's statistics tab. Unique visits, page views, popular search terms, RSS subscribers and top referrers are all included.
- Live Site Preview - Double check your work before you click "publish" with the app's "Preview" tab.
We've tried to include all the best features of Squarespace in our initial release. So, download the app and let us know what you think!
Note: Due to the extremely long approval times Apple requires -- we are already well into the next version of this application. In that version, you'll have comment management and approval as well as a number of other small refinements. We know this is a big feature, and it's coming extremely soon.
A. Casalena
1.0.4 RELEASE UPDATE: Guys, we have a few known issues with this release that we've recorded and have fixed, but the app store is delaying our approval for 1.0.5 as usual, which we'd normally have fixed for you all immediately. We know about:
- Passwords not being accepted that have special characters.
- Images sometimes being rotated imporperly after posting.
- Landscape view for editing entries.
- Stats labels for Robots/Uniques being incorrectly shown.
Thanks! If you're experiencing something not on this list, feel free to write in!
Reader Comments (64)
Headed there now to get this!
Thanks!
- Joshua R.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS - This app is awesome! - Well done Squarespace! :)
Ohh yes! Great work guys and I can not wait to return from Amsterdam to check it out.
Love SS and I am sure this will be awesome as well.
Take care.
yeah great, but what about all of us on the G1, Pre, and Droid! Not to mention Windows Mobile!
Just Kidding. I just downloaded it and am loving it. thanks so much for your hard work..
Congratulation on getting this into the App Store!
I'm in the process of bringing a new client over to SquareSpace and this will come in very handy for them.
Really slick execution. Kudos to the development team.
Note: - on the Statistics button, the top tab - "Page Views" - as you scroll right to get to the Uniques display and whatever the third one is, the text doesn't change - it stays "Page Views" for each screen.
Woohoo! Just downloaded it. Thanks for putting this together. Can't wait to check it out.
Opps! I just downloaded it and was told "The application "Squarespace" was not installed on the iPod "iPod touch" because it is not compatible with this iPod."
I have a brand new 3G iTouch and normally all 3G iPhone apps run on it - what's the story morning glory?
Wait, it's iPhone only? It won't let me install it on my iPod touch (3rd Gen)...
My new SQS app randomly crashes when navigating the menu or when I'm just looking at something. I've been using SQS for 2 years so I have faith. Could it be a poor signal causing this behavior?
Awesome! Works great and looks great, too. Nice job.
SICK! This baby scrolls like butta' - oh baby, the STATS!
Yes! Very excited about this!
if anyone is interested about the UI design of the app, I wrote a post on my blog: http://www.myfavoritething.it/blog/2009/11/3/squarespace-iphone-app-ui.html
Will there be an app for Windows Mobile?
@andrea Sorry about that! We forgot to tick the box that said we were compatible with the Touch. We updated this in the iTunes App Store; please try again and see if it's working for you now!
@joshua As with the release of any new software, there will be bugs! We've tested this extensively, but if you do run into problems please file a support ticket from within your site manager or send an email to support@squarespace.com. Support is "all hands on deck" to make sure that this release is a successful one!
Please, please, please add Landscape-support for drafting/editing posts. This would be huge! So excited to have it out finally, though! Congrats!
I waited impatiently and I'm about to test it ! Can't wait !
Love the updated app!!! One suggestion, make it possible to not just edit a post but throw it back to "Draft" status to hide it from view like you can do on the website.
Love the idea. Seems flawed in a few areas.
Full write up here
Points of interest.
Support the use of markdown/textile/etc. Writing out full HTML on a mobile device is just plain stupid.
Fix the editing of drafts in the app. It currently creates a new draft every time you edit and save. Not cool. I want one draft that I can continue to edit. Not 8 drafts all with minor changes.
Great first effort. But some fairly serious issues that need to be addressed asap.
Great! Expect an in-deptf review tomorrow on MacStoriesm together with the presentation of my new Squarespace blog :)
Yeehaw! Just grabbed it myself and will check it out. Ironically, I just posted on this topic earlier this afternoon in the forums. The force is strong within me. ;-)
Will give feedback/ratings as soon as I've had some time to play with it. Great work guys!
Love. LOVE. L U V. And many congrats to you. You guys deserve big kudos and honkin celebrations! Thank you...
Just heard the news before leaving the office. Will rush strait home to playtest this awesome new app. Thanks SS!
I'm really disappointed that other writers on the site can't log in. Only the main account can.