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

Pretty appalling UI, actually. Like under "Activity", if someone replies to a comment, there's no way to get to the thread or even view the comment they replied to. That's not even beta quality. Also, if I accidentally select some text in an article, I can't deselect by tapping elsewhere or scrolling. I have to choose from the pop-up menu to make it go away.

The new look is clunky and the app just straight up crashes when you attempt to click on a link in an article. Even when links did work, the Substack app kept the URL hidden so you were stuck firmly in the app's space instead of being able to easily copy and share URLs for interesting links. And the app handles images poorly too, it's a pain to enlarge them and pan around to look at something more closely.

I overall really enjoy the app, but my current biggest pet peeve is the way the audio reader will say "and quote" any time a quotation begins. For many articles this is fine, but if it's an interview or creative writing, it gets very distracting and disruptive to dialogue. It would be great if there was a setting to turn off whether it explicitly reads "and quote" or not.

What's new

Introducing the new Home tab: your personal window into the Substack universe. The reading queue ensures you never miss a post from your favorite publications, and the explore feed helps you discover and discuss great writing with others. Finally, we’ve supercharged your inbox with new saved and audio filters, and multiple layout options.

Version 2.0.3.1:
- Bug fixes