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About Substack
Substack lets writers start a publication that combines a blog, an email newsletter and podcasts, with optional paid subscriptions. Writers keep ownership of their intellectual property, mailing list and subscriber payments, and have editorial control over what they publish.
It also works as a reading app, with a home feed, subscriptions, chat, activity and discovery of other publications. It suits independent writers and creators who want to publish and earn from readers without running their own site.
Strengths
- Newsletter, blog and podcast in one publication
- Built-in paid subscriptions
- Writers keep their mailing list and content
Limitations
- Hosted only, with limited design control
- Discovery and reading revolve around the Substack app and feed
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to start a publication; writers can charge readers for subscriptions.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Substack
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application, Hosted service
- Account
- Required
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Independent writers who want a newsletter and blog with paid subscriptions
- Categories
- Websites and blogs
- Last verified
- Added
- Sources