Substack

A home for readers

Substack

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By: Substack Inc.

Users: 2,557,326

40.13K

Rating: 4.82

(65,465)

1,264 new ratings

Version: 2.26.0 (Last updated: 2024-11-25)

Creation date: 2022-10-03

Email: su*****@substackinc.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Permissions

Contacts: read your contacts

Location: approximate location (network-based)

Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Camera: take pictures and videos

Microphone: record audio

Other:

receive data from Internet
view network connections
pair with Bluetooth devices
full network access
change your audio settings
run at startup
control vibration
prevent device from sleeping

Ranking

# 33,145 ▲ 269

Other rankings

#25 in Lifestyle (Free) ▼ 3 #3 in medium keyword 79 ▲ 1 #24 in submit keyword 29 ▲ 6

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App summary

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Discover and discuss great writing on Substack.

World-class writing: The best stories, ideas, and culture right 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: Join private chats hosted by the writers you love.

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

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

High quality content
Great personal blog medium
Continuous addition of new features

Cons

Frequent crashes and bugs
Poor navigation and user experience
Audio player issues, including losing playback position

Most mentioned

App crashes or freezes
Navigational difficulties and app not remembering last position
Audio playback issues and lack of queueing functionality

User reviews

It's been years, and the audio player is at least more stable, but STILL can't queue articles. I have an hour long commute and if I want to listen the whole time, I have to pull out my phone every 5-8 min and browse. It's intensely frustrating to have two free hours a day and a nearly unlimited supply of things to listen to, only to trip over the carelessness of developers who couldn't be bothered to add the 3rd-simplest feature an audio player could have (which worked on iPhone on day one). Boo

Chris Eldridge, 2024-11-19

I really like what substack is about and what they are trying to do but one major problem makes it almost unusable for me. I like to listen to long form articles and podcast. When I start on my andriod phone, then swich to android auto, it should remember where I left off, like every other major streaming app but it doesn't. Every time, it wants to start me from the beginning. The same is true when I switch to my ipad.

Joshua LaCross, 2024-11-19

This app and its corresponding service are straight garbage. It's full of intentional dark patterns, usability problems, and irritating notifications. There's no support at all. They refuse to acknowledge support questions, emails, or any other communication. They'll gladly take your money, but they don't want to work for it.