Substack - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

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

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In-Apps

Monthly

£5.99

Hung Up (Monthly)

£4.99

ByteByteGo (Monthly)

£14.99

Marc Stein (Monthly)

£6.99

Noahpinion (Monthly)

£9.99

The Hyphen (Monthly)

£6.99

Slow Boring (Monthly)

£9.99

The Elysian (Monthly)

£9.99

The Generalist (Monthly)

£19.99

Isolation Journals (Monthly)

£5.99

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User Rating

4.83 out of 5

10,104 ratings in United Kingdom

5 star

8,857

4 star

962

3 star

158

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Ratings History

Reviews

WH ageing incumbent rescuer

New Democrat candidate needed SOS Urgent..

Home and HORT

JP is such a brilliant writer, with immense knowledge of gardens home and interiors. He also has a great sense of humour! Definitely one to follow x

Interesting, informative articles

Everything I’ve read so far is interesting, engaging and informative. Thank you.

Access to writers

Substack gives access to independent writing that you will never see in MSM.At the same time one should always be sceptical as to whether the writing makes sense from your experience. In other words it makes you think no matter how uncomfortable that may be.That’s the writer’s role:to make you think.

Stop suggesting me stuff

I just don’t have time to find how to switch off the annoying recommendations so I had to switch off all notifications until I actually need the app. The default should be no notifications outside subscriptions. I don’t care about that lady’s cat post. At all.

A Good Year and other things

You know (Polis) how I feel about A Good Year, and my singular inability to put words together in the way you have done and do is the very reason my own attempts at authorship have stalled, died and been buried in the cess pit of lost dreams. There are a few books I have read and enjoyed as much as your twelve days of Christmas folklore tale. They would be Christ Stopped At Eboli, The Name of the Rose, The Magus (although that was so long ago I may be misremembering), and just to prove I’m as shallow as a pond evaporating in the desert, DP Clarence’s The Paper Boys, which I galloped through with the alacrity of a frisky colt put out to grass. I have recently bought Disbanded Kingdom and will read that when it comes to the top of pile. And what a pile it is. I recently discovered a perfectly apt word, from those masters of apt words, the Japanese. It is Tsundoku - the phenomenon of acquiring books. Mine have become a fortress needing a literary Joshua to bring the walls tumbling down! Oh biblical bandsman come blow your horn!

Very difficult to navigate

Posts showing in web version not showing in app

Intuitive and simple to use

Clear layout and appreciate how it doesn’t force lots of recommendations on me and I can curate my own reading list. Smooth onboarding experience and easy to customise notifications. The only design tweak I would have is for the list of subscriptions to be easier to sort and filter depending on my interests and time of day. More notification customisation could also be a plus, only notifying me for specific authors. This is all within the context of wanting to enjoy intentional reading and minimise distraction.

27 emails within the first 5 minute of my exploration

Just downloaded app and signed up for a few free subscriptions based on recommendations. Within the next few minutes I have received 27 emails asking for upgrade subscription & yes these pages even send you another confirmation email when you manually unsubscribe the email mitigation from their post. No idea how I can turn these email notifications off from the pages, I specifically opt out notification via email on my account but still bombed by them. Put me off straight away.

Why can’t I write a post?

This makes no sense. How hard can it be? I do a lot of my (long form) writing on my phone. Surely this is an obvious feature?

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Ranking History

Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	Canada News	3
Top Free	Australia News	4
Top Free	South Africa News	4
Top Free	Romania News	5
Top Free	New Zealand News	5

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Keywords

Name	Reviews	Recent release
Pocket: Stay Informed	328	1 week ago
Washington Post National, World, Local News	257	2 weeks ago
Feedly - Smart News Reader Stay ahead of the curve	274	1 month ago
Epoch Times: Live & Breaking Business, National, World News	41	1 week ago
Medium: Read & Write Stories News, Tech, Business, Design	301	4 days ago
Ground News Daily News for Free Thinkers	115	3 weeks ago
Axios: Smart Brevity news National & local breaking news	6	3 weeks ago
The Babylon Bee Christian News Satire	11	11 months ago
The Atlantic Magazine News, Politics, & Culture	43	4 days ago
NYT Audio Audio News and Podcasts Daily	7	3 days ago

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