Substack 12+
A home for readers
Substack, Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Discover and discuss great writing on Substack.
World-class writing: The best stories, ideas, and culture at your fingertips.
Great discussions: Join conversations with the most interesting readers.
All your subscriptions in one place: Find what you want to read quickly and easily.
Subscriber-only chats: Chat with the writers of your favorite publications.
The Substack app is home to thousands of independent writers, creators, and journalists; including George Saunders, Matt Taibbi, Heather Cox Richardson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Nate Silver, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dan Carlin, Matthew Yglesias, Richard Dawkins, Seymour Hersh, Joyce Vance, Jonathan Haidt, and Roxane Gay.
Explore expansive coverage and conversations about news, politics, arts, AI, finance, history, culture, business, tech, health & wellness, comics, climate, parenting, crypto, travel, philosophy, music, recipes & cooking, humor, sports, fiction, literature, design, and much more.
In the Substack app, you can:
+ Discover new writers, creators, and journalists
+ Read the latest posts from your subscriptions in a simple and elegant view
+ Listen to posts on the go
+ Join your favorite writers in their subscriber chats
+ See what your friends are reading
+ Share notes with your thoughts and commentary
+ Save posts from the explore feed to read later
+ Access subscriber-only podcast episodes
What’s New
Version 2.1.10
Improvements to the Chat and video consumption experiences.
Ratings and Reviews
Missing essential functionalities
Overall, I think the idea is very good. A lot better than traditional email newsletters. However the app itself is missing very important functionalities, mainly:
- bookmarks / favourites - without it, I can't save articles for later to read. They just get lost.
- highlights - prefably with tags, and search functionality. With so much information it's the best to make personal highlights of sentences that summarize some ideas the best. My no 1 thing when reading on Kindle. Later on I can easily recall all ideas just by reading highlights.
Nice to have:
- pure black dark mode - a lot better for night reading than grey dark mode
- search text in an article
- ability to subscribe to normal email newsletters like in Stoop or Feedly - I know that it contradicts with a business model. However, it would allow users to aggregate their newsletters in one place instead of switching apps
Needs writer options
Every similar app allows posting and management
I hate this app
Words cannot describe how much I hate this app. Many reviewers make mistake of giving 5 stars because of content. Yet the content is NOT the feature of this app. Same content is available on the website.
This app makes difficult to access subscribed feeds. Doesn’t allow to copy pictures. The font is small (probable they hate people with vision issues). You cannot configure notifications for selected feeds only. Hard to access saved articles. Total disaster.
I hate this app so much it triggered me finally to write this review, as a for of rant. One needs to suffer this app to access great content delivered by great authors
App Privacy
The developer, Substack, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
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Substack Inc. has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- DUNS Number
- 066116217
- Address
- 1448 Cortland Ave San Francisco California 94110-5747 United States
- Phone Number
- +1 778-948-1506
- support@substack.com
- Size
- 64.1 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Copyright
- © 2024 Substack Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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