I have been using Microsoft Live Writer 2012 since … 2012, but someone decided it should slide away . Luckily group of people forked the source code and started to develop “Open Live Writer”, currently the look and feel is about the same, works great, no issues so far.

You can get more info from http://openlivewriter.org/

Lookilook –you can connect to SharePoint in there

Look and feel pretty much the same –yes this post is written in OLW