Substack is a subscription newsletter platform founded in San Francisco in 2017, letting creators publish for free or charge for subscriptions, supporting 1M+ paid subscriptions with only a 10% platform cut.
Medium is an open publishing and writing platform founded by Evan Williams in San Francisco in 2012, with over 100 million monthly active readers. Membership starts at $5/month with the Partner Program sharing revenue by reading time, suiting independent authors and brand content marketing.
TinyLetter is a completely free minimalist email newsletter service under Mailchimp, suitable for individual creators sending plain-text newsletters, with Mailchimp powering the sending infrastructure.
SparkLoop is a US-based newsletter recommendations and growth platform, helping creators grow email subscribers fast through paid recommendations, free partnerships, and referral programs, with 25+ email platform integrations.
Revue was a newsletter platform founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands, launched in 2015 and acquired by Twitter in 2021, but was discontinued by X in 2023, requiring users to migrate to other tools.
Curated is a US-based (Richmond, Virginia) newsletter content curation platform designed for link-roundup editorial newsletters, supporting link collection, commentary, and searchable web archives, with a free plan for up to 1,500 subscribers.
Beehiiv is a US-headquartered all-in-one media platform combining newsletters, podcasts, community, website building, and an ad network, helping creators launch, grow, and monetize from zero, rated 4.9/5 by 28,000+ customers.
Buttondown is a US-based independent, self-funded minimalist newsletter platform founded in 2017, free for your first 100 subscribers, with Markdown editing, paid subscriptions, and an API, billed per active subscriber and loved by technical creators.