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

Can't write notes from the app. I can take or upload a photo but there's no text entry box even though the keyboard pops up. This has been the case for at least a few weeks now. As a writer this is the single most useful feature of the app to me. If it ever gets fixed I'd revise the review. Note: everything works fine in a browser

The content and vibe of the app is great, but it still fails miserably at quick loading times and has errors when trying to update the profile bio. The chat function doesn't load at all and keeps showing notifications when there are none. It doesn't take much to make this a five star app, please focus on making this app better because especially the notes function seems to me like a better alternative to Twitter than some other apps popping up.

The app is still pretty buggy, and seems to be getting worse. I can no longer reply to an existing post in a chat thread. It instantly crashes. In the chat of a substack I subscribe to, it constantly asks me to "Join" to post. Often times, the button must be pushed multiple times, and even then it still might not work. Less critical bugs include chat emojis not displaying, randomly. And notifications can be slow, but they are getting more responsive.

What's new

- Various fixes and improvements