Substack 12+

Read. Watch. Chat‪.‬

Substack, Inc.

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Substack is the home for great culture. Discover original writing, listen to your favorite podcasts, and watch videos from the best creators and thinkers in the world. Here, you can find original ideas and join discussions about topics you’re interested in, from news, politics, and food, to finance, fashion, and literature.

- Start a Substack: Create an account and start publishing posts.
- Read: Discover world-class writing, and find the best stories, ideas, and culture.
- Watch: Enjoy short and long-form videos from your favorite writers and creators.
- Chat: Join private group chats and intimate communities
- Publish: Share a note to the Substack network or send a new post to just your subscribers, in minutes.

Thousands of independent writers and creators publish on Substack, including George Saunders, Matt Taibbi, Heather Cox Richardson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Nate Silver, Leandra Medine Cohen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Gabe Fleisher, Medhi Hasan, Richard Dawkins, Seymour Hersh, Joanna Goddard, and Jonathan Haidt.

In the Substack app, you can:
- Start a Substack
- Discover new writers and creators
- See what your friends are reading, watching, and listening to
- Get all the latest posts from your subscriptions in one place
- Listen to posts on the go
- Join your favorite publishers in their subscriber chats
- Publish directly from the app to your subscribers
- Catch up on the stats from your latest post
- Share short-form notes and commentary
- Save posts to read later
- Access exclusive subscriber-only podcast and video episodes

What’s New

Version 2.18.0

- Option to paywall only the replies of Chat threads and not the content itself
- View a preview of paywalled Chats before subscribing
- Improved Chat paywall user experience
- Other improvements

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
121.6K Ratings

121.6K Ratings

Mona Ukulele ,

Free Speech Platform Is Freedom to Read, Learn and Tgink

Did you ever see a T-shirt emblazoned with the words: “Think. It’s Not Illegal…Yet”?
I remember the first time I saw that and my thought was “Gee, that’s an overreach”. But my second thought was ”Maybe not…Remember the book 1984…Remember the book Fahrenheit 451?” Do high school and college students even read those anymore? Were they banned?

I’m new to Sub-Stack. I’d heard about it for several years but I am a satisfied reader, happy I took the plunge and signed up for a few free subscriptions after hearing a commentator on a news channel. And what’s so wrong about “talking heads” anyway? I say they are “thinking heads”! I even pay for a couple subscriptions because I want to support these diverse writers who think independently and aren’t dependent on a mega-corporation owned by an authoritarian billionaire. Try it! It’s not illegal yet! It’s uncensored thinking that’s written and updated often — you don’t have to wait for the book.

rgdud ,

The app needs work… a lot.

OK I will change fro 2 stars to 3. I am still trying it, but really. Inconsistent appearance web and within the app.😵‍💫….. Easy to get started…. But user interface is confusing. Please just a bit more work would make such a difference. An app for readers and writers…. Reading other people’s ’publications’ is relatively easy, but creating your own is a bit of a chore since you never know where you are within this app. For example clicking on “settings” can give you two completely different screens depending where you started… I think. No manual. Search for help via Google etc. and you get offers to subscribe to someone’s sub-stack publication that will help you use sub-stack. If they tried to write a manual they would see how flawed the UI is. Also, pushes unwanted publications …. A serious no-no. You apparently can’t say ‘don’t do that’… you can only unsubscribe from every one of them only to have them replaced by another batch when you log on again. Overall, Is is a great idea… help writers connect to their audience in a coordinated manner. Several well known bloggers/writers use it. So far, I like the idea, but not the implementation. NOTE: some of the reviews here in the App Store refer to specific publications/blogs not to the app itself. ?? AND ALSO….. Your ‘BIO’ can only be 250 characters! Really. At First I thought is was 250 words. Nope. 250 characters 😏

Lessons learned: ;) ,

A bit of nuancing?: Job losses during COVID.…

…were inevitably due to the onset and vicissitudes of the worldwide pandemic…though also exacerbated by President Trump’s genuinely clueless and confused leadership choices…particularly the belief that people needed to “not be too alarmed” in the face of a deadly disease that we (and he moreso) knew nothing about…a paternalistic error (that is, his assurances would protect us more that judicious scientific work). Cost us how many lives??!
Kudos to Trump that he listened to whomever urged him to spend $$$$$ to get us vaccines.
The “inflation” now seemingly blamed on Biden, was largely and necessarily sparked worldwide by the various efforts to keep ourselves alive and outrun the ravages of COVID…lots of $$$ spent by both Trump and Biden administrations
My take is that we lagged behind other countries in managing the disease; probably helped the world lots in vaccine production and distribution; outdid other modern countries in finding financial stability in the face of inevitable inflation.

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