Blogger vs. Geeklog vs. Movable Type vs. typo

General Features Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Version
N/A
1.8.2
4.21
4.1.1
Release Date
N/A
30 Dez 2012
2008-08-20 (16 years ago)
2007-05-07 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Google Inc.
Geeklog Team
Six Apart
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GNU version 2
GPL
MIT
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
$0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
4
German, English, French, Romanian
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Optional
Yes
No
Hosting Features Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Programming Language
N/A
php
Perl 5
Ruby on Rails
Operating System
N/A
any
Platform Independant
All
Webserver
N/A
any
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Yes
Other Requirements
N/A
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Ruby
Datastorage Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
MS SQL Server
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Other
N/A
no
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
Anti-Spam Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Akismet Support
N/A
No
Plugin
Yes
Word Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
User Access Features Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Yes
Optional
No
Other Authentication
N/A
Pluggable
Support Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://trac.typosphere.org/report
Books
None
1
2-5
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Categorization
None
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Blog by Email
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Blog API
Blogger data API
XML-RPC and Atom
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Undo
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
No
Comment Features Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
No
Optional
No
E-Mail on Followup
No
No
Plugin
No
Gravatars
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
Client + Server
None
Extended Features Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Workflow Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Content Approval
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Content Import
none
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Yes
RSS, Atom
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
Yes
No
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger Geeklog Movable Type typo
Podcast Feeds
No
No
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
Yes
No
YouTube Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
No
remove Blogger remove Geeklog remove Movable Type remove typo