Substack

Substack Inc.

About this app

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

Ratings and reviews

I previously rated Substack with a perfect score. While I still find the content to be of high quality, the app is plagued with numerous technical issues. For instance, on multiple occasions, after composing extensive responses to articles, I attempted to use Samsung AI for spell checking, only to find that my entire comment had been erased.

I had previously used the app but recently tried my account and it won't let me sign in using the app even though I'm able to sign into a browser. Then I accidentally created a new account in the app with a different email. When I try to login with my actual account I get an HTTP 401 error. Can't get past this. Very frustrating. So apparently nobody checks this. Still get error on 10/30/2024. App unusable.

I stay for the quality of writing. Three things in particular bother me about the app: 1) that you can't save notes the way you can save posts 2) that when you open the app by clicking on a notification it doesn't stay open in the background if you leave the app. I'm constantly having to reopen the app and try to find what I was in the middle of reading all over again. 3) that there is no general navigation on every screen so I have to press the back arrow several times to get home

What's new

- Various fixes and improvements