Substack is a new media app that connects you with the creators, ideas, and communities you care about most.
- Support the creators you love: Subscribe for free or upgrade to view original work and connect directly with your favorite writers, artists, and podcasters.
- Enjoy ad-free videos and podcasts: Access short-form clips, video episodes, and read-aloud articles without interruptions.
- Connect in real time: Join livestreams and live group chats, where top creators bring their biggest supporters into their world.
- Explore independent ideas: Discover bold opinions and engaging views across food, sports, politics, fashion, comedy, finance, and more.
How it works:
1. Download the Substack app.
2. Claim your handle.
3. Explore the feed to enjoy notes, videos, and clips from creators.
4. Subscribe to your favorites for free, tune into their livestreams and join private group chats.
what can I say, substack is a very good optional app for instagram or tiktok. whenever when I want to read something inspiring or find out new stuff, I launch substack and my problem is gone. Before I did not even know about substack existence, I love it very much!! (thanks to my favourite singer of course, buy his perfume!!!)
I hate this app
maxwoj
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
Missing essential functionalities
oskar.filipowicz
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
Unsubscribing should be easier
Toghrul👀
it was so easy to subscribe from my mobile phone, but impossible to unsubscribe. I had to login from web browser to do so. I started and tried to unsubscribe from the app twice, then was prompted to go on web, i missed doing that and realized aftr two months that I am still paying for something I tried to cancel earlier. No comments to the product or content, all is great, just above mentioned case is not right and done specifically to have scenarious like mine.
- Bug fixes
Version 2.91.1
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 .
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