Substack App Reviews

A rare beacon in the world gone mad. A rare beacon in todays world: aware and steeped in philosophical truth and wisdom of the ages, much like America’s Founding Fathers, combined with many insights from times since; politically and ruling elite irreverent, read and thoroughly appreciated for over 20 years now. As I am now residing in Córdoba, Argentina with one of my brothers, away from the insanity of the “developed” economies of the northern hemisphere, one of my longest desires is to visit him on his ranch, drink some good wine and engage in a meaningful conversation, maybe lasting for days I hope Bill, that you will grant me that wish when you return to Argentina, as I am earnest in that wish, and I hold that in my mind during this Thanksgiving 2022. Ad thanks for being you! A common and humble man, follower and subscriber of B.P.R, and numerous Agora publications since 2001. John Gudgeon

Warning! Big problems.. Update: as a writer using SubStack, I would not recommend that writers jump onto the SubStack platform until things get worked out. Stripe, the company that processes payments, charges 15%. That is outrageous and unacceptable, and they don’t tell you that up front. As stated before, there is NO way to contact any customer service. While there are some things I like about SubStack, I really regret having jumped into it at this point. Now that I have subscribers, there is no easy way to just stop. I think that’s what SubStack is counting on. Currently, the app is not working. There is NO customer service. You cannot talk to a human being if you encounter a problem. The thing I like about Substack is it’s simplicity. It’s a newsletter only, without extra nonsense. It’s great when it works. When it doesn’t work, I guess you just have to hope it does work again, eventually, somehow. I got the impression that SubStack was all about connecting readers and writers, and the whole concept seemed clean and honest. So far, it is not turning out that way.

no support whatsoever. If I could give zero stars, I would. It’s a cool platform with great potential, but what you need to know is that if anything goes wrong, you will have absolutely no way to fix it or contact someone to help you adjust the scenario. Getting double charged? You’re on your own. Locked out of your account? On your own. There is neither a support email nor a support phone number that exists for this company, which itself should have you running away. What you do have access to is an utterly useless, frankly insulting, AI bot that will tell you it will help you but weeks later nothing will have happened. Rinse repeat; it’s mid September, I’ve been locked out of my account since June. Obviously I’m just gonna have to write it off as a loss and get on with my life, but honestly, I wouldn’t wish this experience on my worst enemy. I’ve been growing my following for two years and now all that effort is wasted.

Nonfunctional compared to website. This app lacks basic functionality that is available on the website, namely: 1) You cannot become a paid subscriber of a person/org through the app 2) The app does not show you all the tabs of a news outlet on their page (but the equivalent mobile webpage does show this). Example: I want to watch a specific show from a specific news outlet. On the website, there is a tab with the name of the show, where all posts are available in order. On the app, you have to dig through all posts from the org in order to find the posting of the show that I want. 3) (More of a gripe with Substack in general, this issue exists on the website as well): Sometimes a whole episode of a news show will show up in a post. I see the timestamp says it will last for 40 minutes. After clicking on it, it brings me to a 2 minute preview since the episode is only for paid subscribers. If that is the case, let me know before clicking on it

Thank you for your honesty. Arriving home from Jerusalem on Thursday, my husband and I were kvelling over the beautiful life our son and daughter in law and five precious grands have created in the land of milk and honey. But this joy was short lived when we woke this morning to reports of the atrocities being committed by terrorists just over the border. Then the lies and subterfuge began. “Battle between Israel and Gaza”, as in “we didn’t start the fire”. Grateful that our family and extended family is safe, we are proud that one grandson is serving in the IDF and another is preparing to serve. But it is time to speak out. Thank you for continuing to be our canary in the coal mine. Yasher koach. Bubbie Malka

The app needs work… a lot.. OK I will change fro 2 stars to 3. I am still trying it, but really. Inconsistent appearance web and within the app.😵‍💫….. Easy to get started…. But user interface is confusing. Please just a bit more work would make such a difference. An app for readers and writers…. Reading other people’s ’publications’ is relatively easy, but creating your own is a bit of a chore since you never know where you are within this app. For example clicking on “settings” can give you two completely different screens depending where you started… I think. No manual. Search for help via Google etc. and you get offers to subscribe to someone’s sub-stack publication that will help you use sub-stack. If they tried to write a manual they would see how flawed the UI is. Also, pushes unwanted publications …. A serious no-no. You apparently can’t say ‘don’t do that’… you can only unsubscribe from every one of them only to have them replaced by another batch when you log on again. Overall, Is is a great idea… help writers connect to their audience in a coordinated manner. Several well known bloggers/writers use it. So far, I like the idea, but not the implementation. NOTE: some of the reviews here in the App Store refer to specific publications/blogs not to the app itself. ?? AND ALSO….. Your ‘BIO’ can only be 250 characters! Really. At First I thought is was 250 words. Nope. 250 characters 😏

Awful App. My paid content is hidden away. It doesn’t appear under the paid section or any of the three bottom nav bar buttons. Instead, I have to tap through to my profile pic, then find the paid content and tap there and it opens up the paid stuff. Instead of seeing the newer paid content, I’m seeing older stuff from random people or nothing in the paid tab. Why hide the stuff I’m willing to pay for? I can’t believe anyone who uses substack would think this is good. You have to be going out of your way to sabotage the app. Let’s also not talk about asking me multiple times to connect to my contacts. You asked once, fine. But to keep asking? If the person creating content I’m willing to pay for offers his stuff anywhere else, I will dump this garbage happily. Amateur hour at best. Substack? Substandard.

Wow!. Every American needs to read this about RFK Jr.!! I’m a nurse and don’t know much about politics but am a follower of Dr Robert Malone, Dr Peter McCullough, Front Alliance Doctors, and RFK’s children defense! I am an undocumented vaccine injury in 1960, almost died from small pox vaccination. Convulsing seizures,105 degree temp, listless (dish rag per mother), and doctors told my parents not to tell anyone and never told them a diagnosis, but to never have me vaccinated again as it could kill me. When Covid came around, I was fearful with my comorbidities, I would never survive, as I knew I would not be having a vaccine. I had researched and learned that I had suffered “post vaccinial encephalitis” and was one of the lucky ones. I have the utmost respect for Bobby Jr and his work and when he announced his independent candidacy, I said to many that I thought he and Trump should get together! You have no idea how many laughs that brought! So their merge was more than pure joy to me! Even though I said it often, I never in my wildest dreams thought it could happen !! Thank you, Levi, for writing this great article!!

I’m new here…. Great format, sub stack. I’ve read only yeah right right here. Yes ma’am gonna have an x-ray on. Do you need to have it? Yeah I was good since it’s her one article here by Steve Schmidt that he just wrote on the January 6 select committee final hearing. Steve Schmidt has got to be one of the most articulate and elegant writers on political affairs that I have encountered. This article knocked it out of the park for me. This article presents a situation that engenders both hope and fear. People of good will stood up and called out the evil among us. What hope this gives me! I feared and still fear that their voices would be silenced. Those who sponsored and promoted this kind of power grab are capable of violently enforcing a new power structure in this nation. A power structure that will crush the innocent, the earnest seekers of the means to feed their families, educate their children, and live a peaceful, safe life - the ordinary Americans. It almost happened in Germany when fascism nearly crushed whole cultures. We must heed the warnings that Steve Schmidt and those like him who see the imminent risk presented by our native born American oligarchs. We don’t have to give up our beliefs about religion or how the country should be run, but we must protect the rights of all to prosper without the threat of the greedy, the power hungry destroying our democracy. Great job, Mr. Schmidt!

Great platform, not great UX. Substack desperately needs design help. I have been searching and searching the site for a simple list of my paid substack subscriptions. I am totally stumped. I have no clear mental model of the information space of the site or the app. It is just a massive heap (a stack, maybe?) of different kinds of unrelated content. Some of it is article-like content. Some of it is tweet-like comments. Some of it is comments on other people's article-like or tweet-like content. I am just confused at what I'm looking at. I'm constantly confused at what I'm supposed to click on to see other people's comments. A little icon indicates how many comments there are, so I click that. Now I'm prompted to leave my own comment. Huh? Listen. The site looks nice. Obviously whoever coded this site chose a nice UI framework. But design is not only -- or mainly -- about aesthetics. It is about making things make sense to people. Your site makes no sense. And that is a shame because it is home to some of the best content available on the internet. Please. Please, take design seriously and get this house in order. The content, the platform and the ideal behind it all deserves much better.

Wow. The shield number of quality posts on here is enough to make somebody who doesn’t leave reviews a nice review. I’m absolutely blown away by the quality of work. I’ve come across in the short time. I’ve been using this app. I often find myself exiting news articles before they’re done because they’re just not good quality subject matter or the writer is lacking. A few of the posts I’ve read on here screamed, professional quality, an extremely high rating amongst professionals at that. I’ve never left a review before, but this was deserving of it. These guys did a fantastic job and I intend to continue using this and eventually subscribe.

Best social media type platform out thete. A politically and ideologically balanced, positive, constructive, quality, non-toxic community which many different sub groups and niches to fit your interests. Though, I have one recommendation to the devs, the ability to manage and switch between multiple accounts would be nice. I would like to keep my more serious writing separate from my less serious writing, seeing this as an alternative to X and other, interacting as a general user in the boarder substack community not as a content creator would be nice, and being able to do that without multiple clients even better.

Reading the Truth in American News is hard to find. Even before Drudge appeared on the sene it was a challenge to find honest journalism and I don’t mean that they needed to be in agreement with my perceptions, just honest. And yes, if they “Sold Out” as on the case of “ The Drudge Report” then I pack up my time and seek out new journalists! Frustrating but necessary if I am determined to be well educated & informed. If I find a news source that is anything but honest then I move on ( this happened quite frequently ). But I have been diligent and have found a small group of educators aka journalists “because” that’s what journalism does - it educates & informs so that I can make informed decisions. And so I thank all of you who are true to your profession. This latest article by Emerald Robinson is a perfect example; not that I already lost trust in Lutz but I just wasn’t aware of so much in her latest writing of him and his antics. This helps me confirm my suspicions and complete my life long passion for the truth on people & subjects. So to that end, I want to say “Thank You” Emerald Robinson for using my time wisely. Since I have precious little of it to source my providers, it’s a confirmation that my new subscription to you has already confirmed my investment in this endeavor has paid in dividends yet again. Please continue….. Paul Q

Not loving most recent update! Housekeeping is way too hard to find!. Mostly love the app and the things I get to read. But the housekeeping stuff (credit cards, notifications) is too hard to find . . . . Since we each have a profile, it should be easily found from there - especially since choices are applied to everything attached to the person/profile! Glitches galore emerging: ALL in Inbox is a month old; everything froze the past few days is flagged as saved though I didn’t flag it bon the other hand, at least I see it somewhere! Give us a way to choose the order of our inbox (oldest to newest or newest to oldest, but definitely NOT RANDOM or mosh mash!). And GIVE US ACCESS TO DIRECT PROBLEM REPORTING. Support doesn’t help if I’d doesn’t answer OUR questions!!!!

Great phone app, OK tablet app. I prefer to read my subscribed Substacks in email, but I find the app super useful for finding previous posts, missed details, etc. However, it’s really only great on my phone. The iPad app is, well, it’s a giant iPhone app. No sidebar, no navigation, no taking advantage of the larger screen and additional input methods. Sure it’s fine for reading in portrait mode, but when you’re looking for something, trying to catch up on a bunch of subscriptions, etc., I find myself wanting something more akin to the Apple News app. Also, the “you haven’t enabled notifications” pop-over video you can’t close is annoying. Why not the standard “please enable notifications” dialog that every other app uses so I can tell it no right there?

Exactly. I identify with many of the situations here. I haven’t been successful so my husband didn’t seem to support me. I realize much of that is his upbringing. You don’t flatter too often. His father especially did not seem to compliment or encourage. Still I often felt lonely. Jeff, you writing, “Don’t say you’re going to be a writer, say, ‘I am a writer,’”when I started my writing career, changed my life. I had spunk at fifty one and self published four novels in four years, kept a blog going and really believed I could do this, what I wrote mattered. Then the world felt like it rocked under my feet. I sputtered around but lost some of that confidence. After five years of a slog, some writing, but dull zeal, I’m coming out of it. I thank you or the mail chimp powers, for inviting me to Substack. I joined on New Years Day. Here’s to success in our writing souls!

Love Substack as a reader and a writer!. I love Substack from both a Reader standpoint and a Writer standpoint. It is an intuitive and user-friendly platform that has exactly the tools and features I find most useful. And it gives them to us in a professional, elegant interface where we get to hang out with one another. Love having my favorite writers all in one place, and as a literary professional, I’m enjoying building a Substack presence far more than my experiences with social media and personal websites. Substack does for writers and readers what Apple did for computer users—provides an enjoyable experience within a “lean production” environment—simplicity, efficiency, productivity.

Haste makes waste by mistakes!. Good morning. I may have been mistaken and misjudged. Trust for internet articles is coming along slowly for me and my house. With all of the false narrative, alternate truths, fake news, scams of various descriptions, and misinformation being fed from what may on the surface seem reliable sources is it any wonder our world is as it presents itself to the hungry or hangry individual attempting to peek out from below the wreckage today? I am only one of those beaten up and scarred people who has been made to face fears of failing at life whose expectation was once somewhat brighter due to the ignorance of younger years. Well hello from the rubble. Maybe I was wrong and made a mistake which now needs correction! I choose to trust this medium of Substack.

Flagging down the road signs. Ray Padgett is stunning in his bubbling fascination with the Dylan Band ‘74 tour. And blessings to him for taking us along for the wild ride through set lists & epiphanies in what was a memorable coming out. I was lucky enough to be at the Oakland Alameda evening show & wish I could have had the breadth of experiences to witness more of the tour. For those of us fascinated, enthralled, peaked by Bob Dylan & his works of love & reflections, his live shows simply resound in a vibrant way. Most all I’ve seen heard stirred me deeply, a few suffered from bad mixes yet they were always excitingly anticipated. How would he do them, twist lyric or rhythm, reach for something deeper or rocking. It’s why we go see genius.

Header uploading is virtually impossible with no support options. The new updates have made it essentially impossible to upload a header for your account. Even upon editing an image to fit the proportions. Images that previously worked are now not allowed, and from a coding perspective it seems completely nonsensical. For such a simple feature to be so impossible to navigate is beyond frustrating and the lack of options or remedies is insult to injury. Makes me want to find a new place to house my publications. Please consider letting us upload images outside of the required 1100px x 220px, and if they stretch so be it. Or at the very least allow the images that MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS to upload. Edit: After reading other reviews my highest advice is to fire your wildly incompetent coders, they are destroying your website and app and I will now definitely be finding a new place to upload my work. Sad to see a decent platform be demolished by crap tech hires.

Mary Trump. Mary Trump tells it like it truly is. I have relatives that remember how horrible Donald Trump was in doing his best to get those 5 young teenagers convicted of a crime they did not commit.. Thank you so very much for putting out Information on him.. one of my family members said he use to be in Albany, NY years ago working at a public school with children and she met him. I’ve tried to tell her gently Donald Trump was never in Albany, NY working under anyone in the school system for children .. but you know something I may be wrong maybe he did some type of intern work.. based on how he is now I can never believe that he worked in a public school helping any children.. His own children seem like they fear him especially his sons. It’s sad.. I really appreciate the writings that Mary Trump tried to get out to the public.. he has followers that no matter what truth is told about him they will not believe it.. he is not a good man and he definitely should not be President of these United States ever again. Thank you Mary Trump for all you do to get the message out there to people that will listen.. I’m hopeful that those that read your works will pass it on to others.. God bless you..

Keeps getting worse. Substack took a fairly minimalist design and has added so many bells and whistles that the bloat makes it non-functional. Unfortunately they didn’t bother to include features that are useful to the reader. You still can’t edit comments within the app—have to go into safari. If a notification pointa to a comment in a thread, clicking will take you to top comment in thread. Again, you have to open safari to locate a specific comment downstream. And if you want to manage a subscription, the app will no longer open safari. You have to open safari and navigate to the Substack or at best manually copy and paste the link. We readers are nether the customer nor the product. Those roles are assigned to creators. We are just the saps who are paying the bill and the app shows this attitude. Seems shortsighted

Navigation & Notifications. I think Substack is a great idea and a great platform, but it just needs a few tweaks. Navigation. It’s a little confusing and not intuitive. I also don’t like that if I choose to follow someone instead of subscribe, there’s no straightforward way to find them. I don’t want to just randomly subscribe to anyone pushing words onto the net. Some people I want to see a little more growth and quality but still have them on my radar. My problem with notifications is that they’ll switch back to email from push if I don't visit Substack. I don’t want more emails and my life doesn’t revolve around apps. I think of Substack as “higher quality” in thought, but “pushy” behavior like this reminds me of a sleazy car salesman. If I’m not visiting Substack as often as YOU want, don’t change a setting and then start spamming my email. Become the platform that people CHOOSE to come back to. My recommendation is start with the above and make navigation more intuitive.

Thank god for SR!. How fortunate are we Democrats to have such amazing grownups in the room like Simon—researching, reporting, illuminating and helping us better understand what is happening in our beloved country at This Exhilarating Moment!! And yes to everything he said about the loving and common sense perspective of VP Harris to not just SAY IT but to demonstrate by her ACTIONS that she intends to be President for ALL Americans, including those who live in the Heartland. Selecting Gov. Walz was brilliant in so many ways but mostly it was brilliant in its simplicity—we cede no corner of the country and everyone is important whether you live on the Coasts or in the freaking middle of rural America. Let them call us coastal elites and anything else they want to throw at us because, when it’s all said and done, this election might not even be close! And one of the biggest reasons for that will be that we made the decision as a party to cast a wide net and welcome in any and all who want to look for and work toward a beignter future for themselves, their children, and their communities! W-O-W!!! The times they are-a-changin’!

Reporting some bugs in the mobile web app. When attempting to re-publish after editing a post, the "Update Now" button is down below the visible pane but scrolling down doesn't scroll the modal view, only the text from the post behind it. Workaround is to select text then long hold the selector and drag it down to make the modal scroll. Also, to modify text (like making it bold) it's necessary to select the text then scroll all the way up to the top to hit the bold button. This can be pretty annoying. Also, when clicking the three dots button on my Published list, the pop-up menu is cut off at the top and i can't hit the post stats button. Please update the writer experience! All these little bugs add up to a clunky experience on mobile for me as a writer.

Substack is the greatest publishing platform… but. I truly love Substack. It has been a great platform and really helped me grow but this app… Please for the love will you guys please add the ability to write and publish and interact in a more cohesive fluid and easily interactive way I feel like the app is just utterly useless at the moment. I want and I’m looking for something similar but more beside of or a kin to what discord has done in the voice and video communications department, and community building. I hope that Substack one day adds the ability to stream live publish more fluently on mobile ads more features, and improves layouts templates and customize ability. I truly believe in Substack as a viable and truly revolutionary platform as opposed to having 25 or 30 other social media websites that you have to constantly post to for algorithmic likes. Please get to work on this app. It is nearing the middle of 2024. You have a great great possibility to be the it platform.

Can't even log in without encountering a programming error. Downloaded the app, went to log in, and the input fields are incapable of pasting values from my password manager, which is one of the highest-rated and widely trusted ones. Whoever coded this app apparently doesn't even realize that many people use long character strings as passwords, and expect to be able to paste them from a password manager, not rekey them manually. If they don't even know that, then do I even want any app that they coded on my phone at all, given what else might be wrong with it via the coders not knowing any better? Update: I logged in anyway and began using the app. I wanted to check what it would cost to upgrade a certain subscription from free to paid. D--ned if there is any way --- any way AT ALL --- to find the super-hidden Easter egg that would let me manage my subscriptions, upgrade one of them to paid, and so on. If you find the deeply hidden menu controls that let the user do one of the most basic functions like managing their subscriptions, let me know! I gave up hunting after a while, in disgust at how bad this app is!

Better through email. I check my emails on my laptop. I enjoyed the convenience of hearing robert Reich’s podcast by clicking on the email. I don’t like the extra steps needed going through Substack. I also don’t like the female robot voice reading his work either. He has his own form of inspirational speech. Please make all of his recordings available through clicking on email. Substack should be available on MacBook Pro. I have it on my iPhone, but I don’t like switching my earphones to my phone. My laptop continues to be my workhorse. I view my iPhone as an entertainment device, but listening to Mr Reich is a part of my work routine, as pleasurable as it is…. Thank you. Also, commenting should also be made more easily available on my laptop too, btw. This was the original sin. Now I have to login through my iPhone, which knocked my rating down yet another star…

Nothing sub About it. I remember saving babysitting money for the release date of Stephen King’s latest. The anticipation building on the drive to the mall. The moment of panic when I saw the size of the crowd at B. Dalton. What if they were sold out already?! The immense relief when I got my hands on it. How I would try to read slower and slower as I got closer to the end. Rationing out every last bit because I didn’t know how long it would be until more was coming. How cool would it have been to be able to read new stuff almost as soon as the thoughts crossed his mind? To be able to tell him that I cherished every sentence? How much sooner would I have started writing, if I had not only him but other writers to learn from and share dreams with? So very grateful for this opportunity and the platform that has provided it!!

Fun, Reliable, and Easy to use. Ok, we all know Substack has great content, but they’ve gone above and beyond by giving users an easy to use and reliable app now too! I saw today they added the ability to have articles “read” to us and added a “play next” function, so I wanted to drop a positive review here. I love that the are investing in their product in smart ways and executing well too. (Side note: about a month ago I emailed their support team and asked them to add a feature that would allow readers to expand or collapse comment threads, and a HUMAN engineer replied that she liked the idea and would add it to their RFE list. Great touch, Substack!)

Audio Is Great But Significant Bugs Exist. The new audio feature is great, essentially turning articles into podcasts. There’s an annoying bug. I only want to play one article at a time and despite never creating a playlist, previously played articles appear in the Next list and there’s no way to remove them. I don’t want a playlist. An even bigger problem with the app is that not every article displays in the main feed. You have to go to an author’s page in the app to see all their articles. I have no idea why and there’s no setting to list all articles in the main feed. This means email is still the most reliable way to see what’s happening. Finally, notifications don’t work at all for me.

There’s Finally an App!. I’m excited to see that Substack has an app now so that I can view all of the writers I’m subscribed to. Since I started with reading Glenn Greenwald’s substack, the site has been my go-to for journalism that I find trustworthy and worth reading. Individual people putting out their own content free of corporate pressure (at least that’s what it’s billed as). Having them all come through e-mail was fine generally but I enjoy the smooth movement into the app to see all of my subscriptions on one list instead of hunting for them in my email. I know it just started and will need to be updated so I fully realize the possibility of future issues with the app that will need correcting but nevertheless I’m glad to see that it’s been created.

Disappointed. I was really excited to see there was finally a Substack app and I was really pleased with the experience of the app until I realized I wasn’t receiving all my posts into my inbox. I’m baffled by this but it turns out that rather than including your whole feed inside the app it only shows posts that were sent as emails. making this a essentially a sandboxed email app rather that a Substack specific feed reader. This means that you will be completely aware of any posts your subscriptions post to the web only. And in turn this means that if you want to read ALL of your feed the app (what a crazy idea!) you need to go to each subscription individually to check for any posts not sent as email. Nobody is going to do that. Nobody sane. The funniest part is that the “beta” version of Reader on the web DOES show all post in your feed. So until this is resolved I will be deleting this app and sticking with the web.

good app; “read” tracking needs work. I use this app every day and find it useful. I like that the app keeps track of how much of each article I’ve read, but this functionality is glitchy in its current implementation— often, after finishing an article, I find that it has not been marked “read” and I have to go back into it and scroll all the way to the bottom and exit again to get it to show as “read”. (Yes, I am certain that I had scrolled all the way to the bottom the first time I read it.) And there have been a couple of very short articles that I was never able to get marked “read” no matter what I tried. I would also like to be able to delete (not just archive) individual posts. Thanks for your work!

Substack a return to investigative journalism. The mainstream media is biased and extreme in both conservative and progressive world views. But their biggest failing is what they don’t report on or intentionally leave out. Often their stories are accurate but irrelevant because they simply edit out or ignore anything that contradicts their world view. The Substack media platform, with its full range of publishing tools has given a voice to real investigative journalists, advocates of category subjects (energy, environment, finance, sports, travel, health and more), and invited the readers to participate in much needed social debates. Substack is emblematic of freedom. That’s why I subscribe and follow the producers on Substack. Still, never stop using your critical thinking skills.

The best analyst in the NFL. I have followed Bob Sturm for years and have learned a lot more about the game of football as a result. So many NFL analysts just regurgitate information you already know. Not Bob. He helps me see the game in an entirely different light. And he has the film breakdowns and the stats to back up his insights. I’ve been a diehard cowboy fan since before the ice bowl. But I’ve learned so much more about the game by reading Bob’s columns. The other thing about Bob is he is a workhorse. He cranks out the material, week after week. It always is always superb. As far as I’m concerned, you’re really not a Cowboys fan if you don’t subscribe to Bob Sturm. It’s that simple.

Awful payment settings. First, you can’t manage subscriptions or cards from the app. Thats quite inconvenient. But what’s worse is the app directs you to the substack website, which on iOS safari will not let you remove any credit cards. I had an expired card and couldn’t remove it. Incredibly poor user experience. Wasted fifteen minutes trying to delete my card on file. For the PM - I was trying to update a card on a subscription page and kept getting captcha. Then once captcha complete I couldn’t change card. So my old (expired) card was still there. I’d hit submit, get a decline, then could enter a new card. BUT hitting submit would trigger another captcha request but the captcha would not reappear. And what’s even worse is the AI chatbot not only tells me it is possible but refuses to connect me to a live support agent. Worst customer support ever.

Good but missing a few things. For the most part I’m really enjoying the substack app. The UI is great, it’s easy to navigate between specific substacks or just look at your combined chronological feed, etc. I’m only giving three stars for now because there are a few features missing (or not working on my device? iPhone X, so not that old): - minimize comment thread! This exists on the main site, so hopefully it was just a small oversight (or it wasn’t considered a priority for release) that it’s not on the app … - minimizing a comment thread should send you to the next comment, rather that keeping your distance scrolled constant. This matters because oftentimes I’ll spend some time reading replies and then want to close the parent comment and move on to the next one, but the way minimizing works on the desktop site if you do that you’ll be in the middle of the replies to a later comment - if you tap the top of the screen and are sent back to the top of the article, it would be nice to be able to tap it again to return to where you were. As someone with aggressive thumbs this feature is a lifesaver elsewhere that it exists Again, the app is mostly great, but these three issues are huge for my enjoyment, so I’ll be leaving my review at 3/5 until they’re added.

Hooboy does this app need work!. I downloaded and subscribed in order to support Chris Ryan’s work. First, instead of a password setup, Substack uses the “we’ll send you an email link to sign in” tedious nonsense. So got the link, set up a name and a picture, then searched for “Chris Ryan” “Ryan” Christopher Ryan” “Tangentially” and even searched “T”…. Not a single one of those terms came up with ANY results- his or anyone else’s! Maybe my security settings conflict with whatever Substack is doing in the background, but if whatever they are doing in the background is invasive enough to break their website then uh-oh. I have turned off content blockers, no difference in search results. Without the ability to search for content then Substack is pretty much worthless, hope they get some engineering attention on one of the most basic needs of such a site…

New to app review?. Being prompted to review an application after only a few days worth of spare time usage, from a guy that isn't very internet savvy; may be a part of the development process of platform? I've only recently come to know of SubStack, through contacts on other platforms. I don't fully understand the organization of the "library topics", yet; I find it comparable to setting a toddler loose in a public library, that has no clue to how the books are organized... though I've managed to find a few items of general interest to me by happenstance browsing. I can say, when looking for my contacts by name (searching), I have no problems finding exactly where I need to get to, thus far. As I'm not very familiar with the platform yet, I'm not displeased, but I haven't found any form of "how to use this platform", or instructional, "tips and tricks" page yet either? I'm sure at a later time I may be prompted for another review? Hopefully by then, I'll be able to deliver a better review?

Town square of sorts. Substack is an important adjunct to reading a city paper. Real people, real thoughts - not activist or pretentious journalism that professes to be impartial. And yeah, all kinds of characters and personalities across all spectrums, so gives context and enlivens debates. Notes are good too. It’s a town square of sorts, but the model is not great. No one is paying $100 plus per writer. Needs to be fixed, and yes, someone mentioned you can never find the article you were reading, so an index of sorts would be good. Plus maybe categories:political, cultural, economic, psychological, philosophical breakdowns would be good and one for up-for-anything deep thoughts. Maybe a catchall proposals page for people to make policy suggestions. So in this age, with terrible partisan journalism, Substack is good, though could be improved.

Regarding deadlines before and after.. I can completely identify with your thoughts in this article. For decades, as a successful and well-known artist in Japan and now back in New York, I’m writing a memoir of that time. Anticipating deadlines, worrying about them, trying to organize myself to get the work done, then handing it to the client and walking away feeling suddenly free – all of that, yes. I know everyone’s different, but I imagine what you wrote is universal among creatives. The challenge for me is to organize myself better and with more lead time so I’m not rushing to finish by the deadline, so I’m not afraid of it looming too close… Even after all these years.

Worst Experience Ever. It’s not so much the app although the interface isn’t great, it’s that the experience of being on this platform is yet more of the same ugly political hatred I saw on the originalTwitter platform. It’s as if the same horrid people who said they were taking their ball and going home left and headed straight for Substack or other platforms to do their complaining and make attacks on everyone over everything until what once were kinder voices faded into oblivion. Kind people must have either left or sat watching the misery go by silently but I couldn’t take it anymore and deleted my account. Rich Demuro led me into using it and I know he meant well, but sorry Rich, this isn’t a paradise or even a place where cooler heads prevail. I had hoped for better, a place where we could hold actual conversation or share thoughts, but that didn’t happen.

Contentious vaccines. Two hundred years of indoctrination has brought us to this point. The question is, was the vaccines contentious at the time of small pox, polio , Spanish flu etc. was the propaganda machine ( safe & effective , science is setteled , there is no link between vaccine & Autism etc. etc. ) operative at that time , indoctrinating institutions , scientists & doctors like at the present time ? Where was the real science ? Don’t they know the data on the health of American children are abominable ? To truly answer these questions one has to go back to the root of the problem, during the time of Louis Pasture & the unknown Anthony Beauchamp. This should shed a huge amount of light between the “ anti vaxers & the vaccine cultists or the vaccine euphorics I

Super Glitchy App and Impossible to Find a Support # or Email. I've repeatedly tried to log into your app because the mobile website doesn't allow you to view a full log unless you download the app. However, the app forces the use of a "magic link" to log in, and when I click the link, the app just spins endlessly without loading. I reached out to customer service, and the chatbot suggested I reset my password and try a different browser. However, the issue isn't with my password or browser—it's with the app itself. What difference would resetting my password or switching browsers make when the app continues to glitch and spin? I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app multiple times, but that hasn't resolved the issue either. Please address this app malfunction directly, as these suggested workarounds do not solve the problem.

I don’t want to be in my inbox. This app is perfect.. I subscribe to a dozen or more Substack newsletters. I’m also one of those people who has a fraught relationship with their e-mail inbox. I don’t want to spend more time in my inbox(es)! This app is delicious nectar from heaven. It just works. My newsletters show up. The reading experience is smooth. The app is quick. And I don’t have to be distracted by the wayward work email or wild email promo when trying to catch up on reading. The inbox reminds me of the good old days of social media. I subscribe to certain creators and what they published is served up to me in chronological order!!! Thanks for building this. Excited to see what comes next.

Update confusing. Loved the app before the update that reorganized my feed. Absolutely hate that it isn’t most recent first. Time exists. stop trying to get rid of it. I promise I will find more things to devote time and attention and money to when my feed is chronological. It’s just so much more enjoyable and less infuriating and more straightforward and on and on I could go. Also why does it update itself and kick me out of anything I'm doing if I respond to a text and try to go back to what I was reading/listening to? I can’t even find it sometimes? Help! Fixing bugs is great and adding capabilities is great but making it impossible for me to keep track of stacks I'm following is frustrating. I want the last version back

Needs to have parity with their web site. The app is fine, and I would use it more if it did all of what the web site does. The feature I miss most when using the app is the ability to collapse comment threads in the comment section. There are usually long threads, and I often collapse them so I can move on to the next comment without having to scroll through pages of replies. This is not a small omission because even when in the app, I will close it and go to the web site to read comments. The other feature I miss in the app is the ability to scale up the text using pinch-to-zoom. My eyesight isn’t great, and sometimes I like to make the text larger to make it easier to read. As far as I know, the app does not support this. Even just a setting to change the font size would work. The only thing the app does better than the web site might be notifications. Also, the web site has a feedback problem when you click like on a comment where sometimes it works but there is no visual feedback. That does not happen in the app. But, overall, the app is not as functional as the web site, and so for that reason, I don’t see much reason to use it.

The ride home. Hey Jeff. Great “ride home”. Thanks to you, AD, coach, GOAT and whoever else made decisions to let you sit in the GOATS seat. You stated many times you were having FUN. Being at the game, I did not hear the broadcast although did hear the wrap up. And now listening to the ride, there will be no one that doubts you are having fun. Throw in knowledge of game and great presentation, I feel there will be many years for you to be “behind the mike”!! Last night brought back so many memories. My first MSU game, I attended with my parents at an early age in Carr Health Gym. Watched them dig the hole for racer arena. Sold drinks in the stands for a couple seasons. Too many memories to start naming. But one, watching my son, Shane, being a ball boy for games (the ones in those days that had wiped up the sweat😁). Continue the excellent job, not work. You’re having too much FUN to call it work. Lifetime fan of Racer athletics!! Steve Andrus

Substack Provides Research that Mainstream Media Won’t. I’m a retired ICU nurse and have been studying science all my life. There are researchers that I have followed closely because of their expert methodology, practical experience and proven track record who are now being blocked merely because they dared to say something negative about the vaccines. Two weeks after the announcement of a COVID virus the governments of almost every country had successfully locked everyone inside, and I smelled a fish. As I flipped through news channels, I heard every single reporter on every station saying almost word for word exactly the same thing. These news stations also showed a packed emergency room that was supposedly in the United States, yet I saw Italian words on some of the equipment and doorways, so it couldn’t have been an American hospital. Hospital administrators were yelling that they couldn’t save people’s lives because they didn’t have enough ventilators. That’s when I knew the whole thing was a grand hoax. The fact is that being put on ventilation decreases your survival rate by 80%. I double-checked using my own books and then looking it up on the internet. I’ve since looked on the internet for that stat and it’s no longer there. Health history is being rewritten. So, bottom line is that those researchers, scientists and physicians who are being blocked are telling the truth, and I can only get that truth here in Substack articles.

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From the land down under.. Thank for the wisdom that is always so readily available. Our thoughts and prayers go out the all those who knew Dr Zelenko he was a truely an amazing man.

MY LOW VISION. Currently enjoying the app, but unable to and large the typeface on my iPad Pro, which makes it more difficult to read the small print. It would be great if you could make it so that I could enlarge the typeface as I read with my open fingers open the fingers. Please could you advise if this is possible? Otherwise all very good thanks very much. Regards, Alan,.

Critical thinking at it’s finest. What a quagmire social media is. Substack takes a different approach and funnels attention into quality thinking in quality articles. I want to think that this is the future of the internet. I’m thoroughly enjoying the thinking and writing of so many intelligent people.

Exciting Adventures. Well done guys, great fun. If you haven’t seen or heard or read anything about Misadventure Adventures time to join the M A

Review. An enjoyable process in the details of sharing my work. Thanks Substack team.

No way to stop notifications. I’ve literally turned every single notification off and the app still has daily notifications. So I’ve just decided to delete the app.

Great journalism, just one small hitch now with the app. For some strange reason on one of my devices, it's saying I need to upgrade the app (without which I can't open it) but when I go to the App Store to do that, it says "not available in your country/region". Meanwhile this excellent app continues to be available to me on the other two devices. What's with?!?!*

Refreshing and real (no reels!). How refreshing to have a space without depressing content and revolting comments. And every second post is not suggested or sponsored. Real content by real people. App is layout well and you choose what you see not the app.

Ethan Strauss is one of the best. Can’t get enough of Ethan Strauss. Such a talented writer. He has such a brilliant turn of phrase. His takes are always on point. I’m in Australia but what he says about the US resonates just as much here. Keep up the great work, Ethan

Couldn’t start it. I downloaded the app and tried repeatedly to open it. Kept getting message to check email to log in. Email came but never worked. I then gave up for while. Very annoying. Now works ok, and is easier than getting lots of emails.

App crashes. Constantly crashes when trying to share posts. Multiple buttons on the website don’t work at all.

Broken hearts. Hard to navigate our broken hearts at present. Love your beautiful piece.i cannot put down your selection book The covenant of water. Thank you for making me think.

Woke up to this. What a beautiful story to wake up to. Thank you for sharing Andrea

Spell and grammar and word choice checks needed on some articles generally.. See above subject.

So much better than scrolling social media.. So much better than scrolling social media.

A fantastic app. I’ve only used it for a short while but I’m loving it in a time of growing censorship if Substack remains committed to FreeSpeech I see a bright future ahead for them

The depth and context we need. Social media is cooked! Substack gives context, nuance and insight like we haven’t seen on Social media

One of the best apps I’ve used. Can read or listen. Great for busy people who want good information. No censorship and great communities too.

underwhelming. So Substack, I want to see (1) posts in the fonts and background colors I see in browsers (presumably chosen by the authors), and (2) landscape mode enabled, especially for landscape-format videos! Until these two things are possible, I won't be using the app, okay?

Clutter free content. Really enjoying a platform that lets me pay for quality content that I want and it helps minimize the doom scroll of social media.

Failure update - from basic level to frustrating. It was a basic app to start - that’s fine, it’s the content - but now it localises the content you’re following into a block at the top and ‘stuff we think you might like’ dominates the screen - I looked for a feedback button but there was nothing on the website which tells you everything you need to know about product management.

Poor user interface. App is functional-ish on mobile devices. Current version of the app is making me log in every single time I try and open a PDF from the creators I pay subscriptions too which is EXTREMELY frustrating. Irritating to use the app and if I didn’t have to I wouldn’t.

Only one voice?. The only voice I can choose for playback is an American-Asian female voice. It takes the impact away from some stories where a male is meant to be speaking. Is there any way we could have a choice of Narrator styles and Nationalities?

ADC in very safe hands. After reading one of Tina Forsee’s incredibly detailed critiques, I cannot wait to send a submission. I’m torn between which story/chapter to post - to get Tina’s expert advice!

Shocking app.. I had a bad experience downloading this app today. I was encouraged to download the app through a newsletter that I subscribe to about Long Covid. However, when I downloaded the app and logged in, it, suddenly subscribed me to all these other random newsletters and my inbox had about 15 emails welcoming me to these other subscriptions, and encouraging me to pay money to view their other newsletters. Completely ridiculous!!! I signed up for this app only to read about Long Covid, I’m not interested in reading all these other random newsletters that they decided to subscribe me to. So I have deleted my account and deleted the app. Goodbye, you’ve lost me.

Just annoying. I was subscribed to a few Substacks prior to downloading, but opening the app opened up with a dozen more that I‘d never heard of. Unsubbed from them all in safari (apparently not possible within the app?) but then had 20+ emails confirming each new subscription and unsubscription. What a ridiculous marketing strategy - why??!

I’d love to live more, pay less.. Thanks for your insights and life experiences. I’ll look forward to reading your book as some more details will be good to help me step out to live more. When is your book likely to be released

Great format, plenty of suggestions. Love the app and content. Could help to have a search function within authors/articles. Also a bookmarks/notes function to save favorite articles under certain subjects. Open link in new browser window. Keep up the good work- you’re in the right track. Don’t get captured!

Fantastic platform with great content!. I love the variety, depth and quality of the writing and I applaud the Substack founders’ commitment to free speech and to not manipulating readers’ choices. It is my favourite platform for great content you simply can’t get anywhere else, because the MSM treats news as entertainment and has been completely corrupted by governments, its sponsors and its shareholders into being a propaganda or public relations machine for those vested interests.

True Journalism. Exposing the Global plan to strip us of our God given Human Rights and corral us into a mindless existence, Bravo and thank you once again!! Stand up Humanity!!

Doesn’t work. I just got this app along with a years subscription to some favorite writers/podcasters. The app spontaneously shuts down after about 4 seconds of opening and I am unable to access the content I’ve paid for. I’ve deleted and redownloaded and updated and nothing has worked.

Newbie. Can't figure out how to subscribe to live Substack election dialogues. Other navigation is easy.

Valuable news. George is a wonderful writer and has dynamic skills in the investigation of the many tyrants that hate to be exposed. Every article is dynamic and jam packed with relevant information.

In response to crossroads. Important message in cross roads review. Beautiful expression of words. I love being read to and reading. I also love exploring my grey matter thanks for tip!!

Love the access to independent really creativity journalists. I’ve quit Twitter as there is rarely a topic that needs less than a page of thoughtful writing to get right… so Substack is my home now!

So e improvements needed. Pls make it so Substack links when clicked open directly into the iOS app.

Thank you. A perfect start to the 5 day course. I really enjoyed the pace and the exercise. Carol from Australia

Shocking App and poor response. Up joining, which I only did because of a newsletter I tried to subscribe to, the app to me feels nothing but a data harvesting tool. Why do you need my phone number to read a newsletter. Within a minute of joining 5 emails received!! Honestly why do you need to bombard new users with pointless emails. Worst of all tried deleting my account and it won’t respond, funny that.

Text to voice. Text to voice is one of this apps great features

Nowhere to report an issue in the app. I like the app and the ability to save my articles, but the read progress doesn’t persist. I couldn’t find anywhere in the app or on your website where I could report the issue, so unfortunately that means I have to do it here in the form of a bad review. Please add an issue reporting feature in the app and fix the bug mentioned above.

From you know xx. Reading this was an absolute enjoyable experience! Rezma really writes brilliantly and expression herself in writing where you as the reader feel as though you’re experience the journey with them! I loved reading this piece and what a twist and turn! I wanted to continue!!! Felt like straight about of a Bollywood movie!!! THE drama !!! I want more!!! Xx 😂😂😂

mistakes matter - or not?. Your subject here is familiar, although the explanation is appealing - but said appeal is substantially reduced (for me) by what appear to me to be several errors within this text? Yet, how do I know... perhaps those are deliberate. There's many and diverse reasons they could be ... and, I'll never know.

Praise. There are only two contributors to Substack that I subscribe to and both of them write brain rattling articles. I am richer as a result of their investigative material.

Ron.. Had trouble getting set up, but once that happened it’s fine.

A wonderful platform for creative writers of all genres.. Easy to use and flexible without a tiresome learning curve to navigate. And you can turn your subscribers, free or paid, into a dynamic social network. Brilliant!

Crossroads. It’s word that been around for centuries, in this case I’ll refer it to what goes on in one’s mind. Ie one gets to the point of understanding of self where you realise patterns are repeating in that skull space you call a brain. What usually happens is we only think linearly so each word in our heads inevitable leads to another…. Which can lead to being miserable for example. That’s whenever say, you realise you need help. Here’s one tool, :- one needs to interject a word into our linear process, pick up a book, open at any page ,and look at the 5th word on the left side of that page ….. then have your grey muscle think, talk, and explain what that word could mean in your current situation ….. and bingo, something smart happens . Edwin xx

The most AUTHENTIC awakening reliable media channel ever. Authentic quality journalism that brings THE TRUTH that has been distorted by other mass media channels and platforms for way too long. I’m on a monthly subscription and worth every single penny!

Truth in reporting. Reliable, up to date and honest articles.

Update has made this app terrible. What happened to the simple feed? You could load the app a see the most recent articles for the writers you subscribed to. Now it is just a mess of suggestions and articles I read previously on other devices. There is no coherent presentation and search is just awful.

Options are now open. Love to have variety back after the scaling back of information that was happening from other forms of media.

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Ok, but has issues. The two frustrations I have with this app are that it isn’t straightforward to find the people or organisations that I follow on substack. The main page shoves articles at me that I don’t follow instead. The other issue is regarding notifications. If I select one notification from substack out of 10, the others disappear and I can’t find them in the app.

TRUMP KENNDY VP. I am happy to read this and could offer only my opinion as I am an observer with love for your nation. I trust Trump’s VP choice. Agenda 47 is the best plan with many women and men whom he may choose from for his team. I also appreciate reading your article and reasoning behind it.

Long form journalism rocks!. Short form journalism offered by legacy journalism sucks! As a frequent consumer of podcasts and Substack posts, I am better informed that at any time in my 72 year lifetime. Combine this evolution with the advances in large language modes like ChatGPT and you have a superior alternative to obtaining an expensive university degree. This is a great time to be alive for anyone who is a lifetime learner. It is also a requirement for all “knowledge workers” (the “laptop” crowd) who wish to compete successfully in the emerging Digital Age.

Attitude adjustment. The timing of Scott’s perspective on what our attitude can be when dealing with the world’s Climate Change dilemma is perfect. Seeing that societies embraced the challenges presented by DDT, ozone depletion, acid rain, lead etc and succeeded has me changing my attitude totally. Thanks Scott

Needs moderation. Some pretty fringe stuff here.

State of Tel Aviv. Week in, week out, spectacular content brought by experienced and highly thought provoking speakers. I can’t wait for the next State of Tel Aviv podcasts to get best in class insight

Sneaky User Manipulation. The app refuses to show me ‘subscription’ links in-app. It will only email me subscription links to my email address. I WANT to subscribe through the app because I love how apple manages subscriptions (one single page where i can press ONE button and cancel). In short this app is manipulating users to subscribe outside the apple ecosystem. Just charge me a surcharge instead substack…

really hard to find the paid subscription area & it’s prices. a lot of the publications say “paid only” but then there’s no option to click to pay! & even after subscribing i have to read the “subscribe” nonsense text when i open to read a paid post!

Broken. Tells me I’m not subscribed to anything on my pc browser but it’s the same account as my phone. Stupid

A great read !. Doomberg shares real and reliable information with readers and subscribers. Most arrivals include factual data based information that is referenced for the purposes of the conversation. We love the way they never shy away from taking pot shots at those who need a little bit of a slap.

Stable - app does what it is supposed to do. A refuge from the billionaire controlled media.

Jungle. 🦍

Relief. Finally, something to feel good about. I was about to stop listening/reading the ‘news’ due to overreaching drama accompanied by depression. As a Canadian, I’m watching the political landscape shift quite dramatically to mirror? (I hope not) our cousins to the south. With immigration at an all time high I sure hope we can remain respectful of all (things) that make this planet enjoyable. If you feel like leaving the planet, without actually leaving, might I suggest a trip to Prince Edward Island with a ferry ride to Isles de la Madeleine (don’t forget to bring a kite). Thanks Andrew for reminding me of the value that the ‘dog days of summer’ bring. Best Wayne

Great content. Anyone invested or following Bitcoin must sign up!

Great way to get all the information. Substack is a great app that allows you to access all your content from one app.

Good App when it doesn't crash at opening!. Nice to follow prefered writers but must open the App 3-4 times before it works.

help 🗣️. was very excited to download this app but i can’t even get passed the first step. tells me to use an email so i do so, sends me an email and i click the “verify” button. then it brings me back to the app and tells me to wait. i’ve waited an hour, not pleasant.

This app is broken. It asks me to verify my phone number before I can read a post. Which is fine, so I press the “send code” button. And nothing happens. Now I remember why I uninstalled this app in the first place.

Great for reading. The app is catered to the readers. So it is a front end with ever developing features. It works well for me as a reader every time I want to read more after getting an email. I would also like to have a back-end app for the writers. Shutterstock would be a good example: an app for publishers, another one for the contributors.

Like the freedom of thought But... I am enjoying the freedom of thought expressed in all the posts I read. However, I don’t have all day to do nothing but read (& one could easily spend day & night exploring posts!) It confuses me & bothers me that if I subscribe to one, I seem to be automatically getting emails from 3 or 4 ( sure all are usually interesting) but has ruined my email inbox for useful everyday stuff. Want to point out to people, if I unsubscribe from your posts, it is not because I didn’t like you, your ideas, or your post topics - it’s because I don’t have TIME for All of them & seek to relieve my in box, so I don’t miss important ones from the bank or close family & friends. Stop taking pride in everyone “re-posting” for everyone else - I’m getting the exact same story from multiple different people. It’s too much.

Alice. Margaret….. you got Alice and I’m sorry you lost your very good friend. She was a wonder!

Excellent content, poor app support!. Only after three or four attempts to launch SUBSTACK will it properly run on my iPhone 8 running iOS 16.7.8. No easy to find obvious Email or Chat links on either the APP SUPPORT or CONTACT US pages. Poor support correspondence will always receive a one star review. Too bad, because Substack is one of the extreme few accessible bot-free platforms not yet corrupted where Truth-Seekers swimming against the bulk of maliciously propagandized brainwashing media can find Truth-Sayers. Should Substack modify those pages to provide easily accessible correspondence support I’ll change my review to all stars, until then 👎👎

A Holiday Poem. That was AMAZING!

Cassandra Butler. Great share on 🌕♒️☮️🙏💜

Fabulous. Great writers! Suits me like a T.

Doesn’t work. Downloaded the app, it made me sign in with my email, then emailed me a link, I hit the link and all I got was an endlessly spinning circle. Deleted the app, re-downloaded with the same none result. Troubleshooting FAQs gave no hint as to how to resolve the issue so I give up.

So slow. I love the app but why’s the app so slow?? All other apps I’m on are usually quick but this one’s so slow to open and load

Not available in Canada. Notification that my Substack app needs updating. When I try it says it’s not available in my region. I’ve been using it for two years. Fix this bug please.

Happy to be on board.. I’m excited to see where this new adventure takes me. I plan on posting recipes. Thank you for giving me an avenue to be creative.

Thanks for your credibility.... Thanks for your credibility.. I like so much your articles..

Truth. Thankyou for giving all the truth tellers a platform to express and discover each other.

Confusing layout. I like Substack but the app. layout is not very intuitive to use. Lots of fragmentation. And I don't get any notifications, even though my inbox is full of new newsletters. Yes I checked my settings.

A delightful read. Richard’s stories are always such a delight and highly entertaining. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Great insight. I caught you on Brian Tyler Cohen ( Midas network ) on the weekend. I really enjoyed your analysis and breakdown of the current Trump situation. Planning to become a subscriber because of how impactful your comments are. I will be recommending to friends and family. Keep up the great work. The world needs more folks like you that can articulate issues of the day.

Can’t manage subscription from the app? Then at least link to the website so I can!!. So far the SubStack community is far more level-headed than other social networking platforms. The issue is that it’s min $7/month for a single subscription, so to get access to a lot of the good stuff can easily run you into debt quickly. But I guess this payment model is better than streaming platforms, so there’s that. My pet peeve is that the app always shows a huge orange “Manage Subscription” button. Click it and you see “you can’t manage your subscription in the app.” Well then do the useful thing and send me to your website where I can manage the subscription. Or put on your big-boy pants and give Apple their 20% from in-app purchases. They’re gonna snipe it from you off the mobile website Apple Pay purchase anyway! There’s no getting around the mighty Tim Cook!

Free Trial? Check your CC statement or they will charge you. Substack continued to charge me for months after I did a free trial. I cancelled and even changed my CC number but they somehow got me new card details and continued charging me. I provided CC statements proving the charges and the card number and they basically denied they were charging me. Had to open a fraud file with my provider and cancel my card. Beware before you give them your card info and make sure to check your statement each month to make sure they are not fraudulently charging you.

Clean UI. Does not respect your privacy.. While I love the app, it has a clean UI and a pleasant UX to it by elegantly showing that the interface concept of “less is more” can work work effectively. Unfortunately, I do not like how privacy-invasive the app is. It collects far too much data about you, it’s data that wouldn’t (and couldn’t) be gathered by reading the email newsletters, so Substack is getting greedy for user info with the app. Once I saw what data of mine the app gathers I immediately deleted it and went back to using email newsletters that don’t invade my privacy. This was so close to being great, but due to privacy invasions, this counts as a fail, Substack.

Lots of potential, not really designed around the reader. While there is some great content, the search function is abysmal, and you can’t mark posts as ‘read’. So the algorithm keeps bringing posts you’ve already read back and presents them as ‘new’. A simple function to mark a post as read would be super valuable. Please fix that!!!

Hamas. So well written

Crashes on opening. This is new, downloaded new app and it worked for a bit then it just won’t open?

Get into Substack because. This is where the truly brave people are.

New user, satisfied thus far.. New to substack. So far, I’m still exploring all that it has to offer but so far I’m satisfied with the user interface & content offered.

Support violence. Promoting hate speech in the platform is no good.

Raconte-moi une histoire. 🌬 Aux portes de la ville un voyageur au loin. . . Bientôt il nous parlera de ce qu’il a glané, cheminant! Et tout sera noté lorsqu’il repartira.

Technical problem. I encountered a technical problem when I subscribed to Zeteo. The RSS link to one of the podcasts was not working. And despite trying many times to get some help, the issue hasn’t been solved.

Conversation from visiting Florida by Graham Wardle and a friend. So very interesting talk, thanks to both of you and hope that one movie will be created from that talk.

J’adore. J’adore toutes les recettes de Chrystelle

Appreciate this app and the developers. Appreciate the opportunity to hear the intelligent, researched and truly scientific and scholarly views on Substack. So important that we support and use these new platforms as others crumble and kneel to Tyrants.

Navigation. Format and search could be better. It is quite hard to find things through the app, and searching on the search bar has to have the specific name of something. It is also hard to discover new writers without already knowing one from another place not on this app.

Great app - could use a few UX tweaks. Loving the app so far. A few wish list items - wish I could navigate from one post into the next without going back to the main post list - wish I could mark posts as read and remove them from the main post list - wish there was a more intuitive way to save articles for later and remove them from the saved list when I’m done reading - wish there was an easier way to filter for Substacks I’m following to read posts from the same author back to back

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So helpful and informative. I’m new, and late, to Substack. I joined for the news in this miserable era. I am getting so much out of the people and independent newscasters/podcasters I’m following and discover more people to follow daily. I need to be as informed as possible. Today, I read about how to prepare if you have to leave suddenly. I hadn’t considered that. Thanks you, Margaret Kilroy. I got revved up by someone whose name I forgot who emphasized we are in a war for our democracy and need to FIGHT. I think he (finally) got my husband on board. I’m so glad to find everyone here. Thanks to all contributors. I’ve donated to some already because we need to support these independent voices.

Accessibility Options Needed for Hearing Impaired and Other Disabilities. None of the videos I have seen on this app have Closed Captioning available. This is really an ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) issue. Please make sure Closed Captioning is available on all videos. It is good that there is one accessible option for people who have vision problems or reading difficulties. A positive is the written text has the option to be listened to of what is written on the page (by pressing the little play arrow at the top of the screen). That makes it accessible to people who have reading difficulties or vision problems. But if a person has a hearing impairment or delayed auditory processing issue without closed captioning on videos you really cannot follow all that is presented in videos, especially sound bites of politicians or government employees. I have found myself rewinding the same 10 or 20 seconds over and over trying to discern what is actually being said. Because the videos need Closed Captioning. Also there needs to be a place in the app where a person can look up what accessibility options there are in the app. Just a link in the hamburger to help people figure out what accessibility options there are and where to find them.

Flagging down the road signs. Ray Padgett is stunning in his bubbling fascination with the Dylan Band ‘74 tour. And blessings to him for taking us along for the wild ride through set lists & epiphanies in what was a memorable coming out. I was lucky enough to be at the Oakland Alameda evening show & wish I could have had the breadth of experiences to witness more of the tour. For those of us fascinated, enthralled, peaked by Bob Dylan & his works of love & reflections, his live shows simply resound in a vibrant way. Most all I’ve seen heard stirred me deeply, a few suffered from bad mixes yet they were always excitingly anticipated. How would he do them, twist lyric or rhythm, reach for something deeper or rocking. It’s why we go see genius.

Needs to have parity with their web site. The app is fine, and I would use it more if it did all of what the web site does. The feature I miss most when using the app is the ability to collapse comment threads in the comment section. There are usually long threads, and I often collapse them so I can move on to the next comment without having to scroll through pages of replies. This is not a small omission because even when in the app, I will close it and go to the web site to read comments. The other feature I miss in the app is the ability to scale up the text using pinch-to-zoom. My eyesight isn’t great, and sometimes I like to make the text larger to make it easier to read. As far as I know, the app does not support this. Even just a setting to change the font size would work. The only thing the app does better than the web site might be notifications. Also, the web site has a feedback problem when you click like on a comment where sometimes it works but there is no visual feedback. That does not happen in the app. But, overall, the app is not as functional as the web site, and so for that reason, I don’t see much reason to use it.

From Weekly to Daily…. Back in 1996, my Liberal brother-in-law (a successful NYC journalist with a column in a well known Men’s magazine) and his wife, my sister) took a sharp RH turn. The impetus at that time was Feminism (his editors took exception to a column in said magazine that basically said women who put their kids in daycare are bad mothers.) That first Winter of his Discontent, when I asked Sis what she wanted for Christmakah, she said, “A subscription to the Weekly Standard.” I obliged, not knowing what it was. Fast forward 30 years & now my bro-and-sis are Trump voters & Kristol is a RINO. I’ve stayed in the same place but now, apparently, I’m a Socialist. They used to think I was a Communist but now that Russia is our friend it’s been dialed back a notch.

Substack a return to investigative journalism. The mainstream media is biased and extreme in both conservative and progressive world views. But their biggest failing is what they don’t report on or intentionally leave out. Often their stories are accurate but irrelevant because they simply edit out or ignore anything that contradicts their world view. The Substack media platform, with its full range of publishing tools has given a voice to real investigative journalists, advocates of category subjects (energy, environment, finance, sports, travel, health and more), and invited the readers to participate in much needed social debates. Substack is emblematic of freedom. That’s why I subscribe and follow the producers on Substack. Still, never stop using your critical thinking skills.

Why so broken?. Trying to use Substack has been a frustrating experience so far. Today, for example, half my attempts at posting just didn't work at all. (I got an error message saying "Failed to publish your note:"—but then nothing after the colon. And the note doesn't seem to be saved to a Drafts folder or something, like most social-media sites do, so now everything I wrote is completely gone.) Then I successfully got something to post, but its animated GIFs aren't animating (whereas animated-GIF posts used to work). And then I did a second post, but noticed the second-to-latest post is showing up as my "Latest post." In seeing other people's posts, I've noticed that if they recorded their own audio, Substack still has their own automatically generated audio showing up above that. And there's no visual indication of which audio is the Substack user's audio. Absolutely bizarre. Furthermore, Substack deleted my first post, citing guideline infractions that I hadn't actually broken. I appealed and they reinstated on the condition that I make the necessary adjustments. But I'd broken no rule, so what adjustment was there to make? It's very hard for me to recommend Substack to anyone right now, and I'm pretty discouraged from using it myself.

One thing. It’s great for a place where you can actually get the truth since the media has all gone to ultra right wing propaganda under trumps pressure except NBC and MSNBC and a couple of print outfits like the Atlantic , the nation, and occasionally Gannett. Opeds are typically in line with the way we all feel. If only you could make it so that when I click on a comment in my email, it would take me to the app and not to a browser where it asks me to login again which is super annoying. Ofherwise 5 stars and I went ahead and gave it five stars cuz it’s new enough they could read this review and developers may fix that issue! We hope!

Wonderful. My Dear friend and friend of yours Elizabeth,shared this with me. It was truly the best thing I’ve listened to in a very good while… I appreciate your words as I grow older too. I have trouble looking forward to leaving this world as my mama died at 67 and didn’t get to see all the boys grow up. I’ve enjoyed and am so grateful for my 3 sons, their families & 7 grands so very much; Ages 13-28. Love watching them all at their different stages. My mom was handicapped from polio so she missed so much… I look forward to seeing them again but I’m just not ready to leave this planet yet. It’s what I need the most …to gain peace in that part of the future. Your expression in the message has helped. Thank you and God bless.

A Platform With Zero Transparency and Poor Support. I had my Substack account suspended without any prior warning, and the experience was nothing short of frustrating. After submitting three separate support tickets, I received no response whatsoever. It was only later that I discovered my account was suspended because I linked my business information in a post—something that was never flagged or communicated as a violation beforehand. What’s worse, Substack didn’t even bother to notify me of the specific policy I allegedly violated. There was no option to rectify the content, no clear communication, and no link to any official explanation. It was as if my account had simply vanished, with no recourse. A platform that relies on arbitrary enforcement of vague rules and refuses to offer basic customer support is not a reliable place to build an audience or business. Substack is starting to feel more like a poorly managed side project than a serious publishing platform. If you’re considering using it, be aware that you could lose your account at any time—without warning, without explanation, and without a way to appeal. At this point, I would strongly recommend looking for alternative platforms that actually respect their users and offer real customer support.

Hooboy does this app need work!. I downloaded and subscribed in order to support Chris Ryan’s work. First, instead of a password setup, Substack uses the “we’ll send you an email link to sign in” tedious nonsense. So got the link, set up a name and a picture, then searched for “Chris Ryan” “Ryan” Christopher Ryan” “Tangentially” and even searched “T”…. Not a single one of those terms came up with ANY results- his or anyone else’s! Maybe my security settings conflict with whatever Substack is doing in the background, but if whatever they are doing in the background is invasive enough to break their website then uh-oh. I have turned off content blockers, no difference in search results. Without the ability to search for content then Substack is pretty much worthless, hope they get some engineering attention on one of the most basic needs of such a site…

Full of junk. I heard all kinds of great things about Substack, so I downloaded it to see what all the fuss was about. It turned out to be just another social media platform. “Notes” are just tweets pretending to be intellectual. There’s a ton of worthless, junk content that’s pushed into the feed for no reason. As an example, I subscribed to several authors who write about sports science. Based on this I would expect to get more content like that, but my feed quickly filled up with articles about topics like “How it felt to finally divorce my husband” (no, I’m not kidding). I repeatedly used the “hide note” feature to try and clean it up but to no avail. Ultimately I think “Notes” are just an attempt to tap into the dopamine addiction that typifies most apps and services now. Substack was supposed to be different. It’s not.

voices. i really appreciate what Substack has brought to the conversation. I’m a semi-retired senior just barely managing to stay afloat, financially. If I was to have to pay for all paywalls i encounter in trying to get the information I’m NOT getting from corporate media I’d be broke! Could there maybe be some sliding scale or senior discount so we can stay informed about the implosion of the country we, as old folks with a memory, once knew. I still show up and i still have a voice but i need to be informed in order to do that responsibly. The emerging alt-independent-free press is our only source and Substack is representing! which I appreciate, could there be a way to get what’s hidden behind, WELL DESERVED paywalls without all these thousand cuts that would kill me? thanks for what you do! signed, an old-school American AntiFa!

Nightmare for businesses. Nightmare company. We moved our business newsletter subscription service to Substack after hearing about it. Unfortunately, none of our paid or free subscribers were receiving our welcome emails (with their promised lead magnets). When we finally managed to get to an actual customer service human, they admitted the problem was on their end, and their engineers would have to look at it. It's been weeks, and they're still saying they can't give us a timeline and to be patient. Um...patient? For weeks? We pay for ads to drive traffic to our newsletter - meaning weeks of ad money has been wasted because none of those new subscribers can get access. Sorry, but Substack customer service is a trainwreck. And for the amount of cash they make off each paid subscription, you'd think they'd be able to hire a few more tech "engineers."

The Light. In this time of outright hypocrisy, lies, & the worst of manipulative disinformation, there are very few that can stand up to world bullying. Substack has given a voice to independent journalism, and those of us who know that our patriotism, and our very humanity, lies in our ability to communicate with the truth. When you aren’t living in the truth, you are living in a non-reality that is easily manipulated by those who have the facts. So when authoritarians keep the facts to themselves and continually lie with propaganda, domination, and control, the rug is never underneath you. Truth dies in the dark —Substack is shining a light that is a beacon held by the intentions & endeavors of our forefathers. Substack has been where I have sought my truth, and empathy in a time of gross manipulation.

Some of my thoughts on Substack. I am relatively new to Substack. One thought that I have on Substack is that I look on it as a “committee of correspondence”, a true engine for a continuance of the American efforts to creative a more perfect Union. America is already in the it is a constitutional democracy, a nation of laws. We have to rededicate ourselves to taken the American experiment to the next level; not to tinker around the edges but to review our laws and to write amendments where amendments are due. Hopefully we have turned a corner but change will not come from just removing Donald Trump. We must revisit the Alien and Sedition Act. In order to have a Renaissance in America we must remove all those who have supported a lawless administration.

Thank god for SR!. How fortunate are we Democrats to have such amazing grownups in the room like Simon—researching, reporting, illuminating and helping us better understand what is happening in our beloved country at This Exhilarating Moment!! And yes to everything he said about the loving and common sense perspective of VP Harris to not just SAY IT but to demonstrate by her ACTIONS that she intends to be President for ALL Americans, including those who live in the Heartland. Selecting Gov. Walz was brilliant in so many ways but mostly it was brilliant in its simplicity—we cede no corner of the country and everyone is important whether you live on the Coasts or in the freaking middle of rural America. Let them call us coastal elites and anything else they want to throw at us because, when it’s all said and done, this election might not even be close! And one of the biggest reasons for that will be that we made the decision as a party to cast a wide net and welcome in any and all who want to look for and work toward a beignter future for themselves, their children, and their communities! W-O-W!!! The times they are-a-changin’!

Justice is lost when Federal Laws are defied. An Appropriate act for those in charge of preserving and enforcing duly enacted laws of our federal government is to cease any and all payments to state, counties and municipalities under the control of elected or appointed officials that are interfering in the execution of these laws, whether by encouraging or allowing activities of civil disruptions that impede legal federal actions, is to criminally charge all of those individuals participating in these treasonous acts of interfering and blocking the enforcement of federal laws. As for any and all other individuals or organizations that encourage or participate or knowingly fund these criminal activities, they should duly warned that if their actions impede federal acts, they will also be subject to arrest and prosecution.

Audio Is Great But Significant Bugs Exist. The new audio feature is great, essentially turning articles into podcasts. There’s an annoying bug. I only want to play one article at a time and despite never creating a playlist, previously played articles appear in the Next list and there’s no way to remove them. I don’t want a playlist. An even bigger problem with the app is that not every article displays in the main feed. You have to go to an author’s page in the app to see all their articles. I have no idea why and there’s no setting to list all articles in the main feed. This means email is still the most reliable way to see what’s happening. Finally, notifications don’t work at all for me.

Thank you for this platform/app. I am still learning how to navigate it using accessibility settings. I look forward to learning how to navigate the app better. I have found a few reliable sources so far, such as beyond the noise, and… I’ll have to think about the others because I use another app for that stuff. Glad there are overlapping channels. I am mostly interested in Science, medicine, biology, virology, vaccines, anti-science debunking and constitutional law. I’m too old and too blind to really do in person town halls and demonstrations like so many of my friends are doing, but a little keyboard activism with the like and share feature may educate a few, hopefully.

Exactly. I identify with many of the situations here. I haven’t been successful so my husband didn’t seem to support me. I realize much of that is his upbringing. You don’t flatter too often. His father especially did not seem to compliment or encourage. Still I often felt lonely. Jeff, you writing, “Don’t say you’re going to be a writer, say, ‘I am a writer,’”when I started my writing career, changed my life. I had spunk at fifty one and self published four novels in four years, kept a blog going and really believed I could do this, what I wrote mattered. Then the world felt like it rocked under my feet. I sputtered around but lost some of that confidence. After five years of a slog, some writing, but dull zeal, I’m coming out of it. I thank you or the mail chimp powers, for inviting me to Substack. I joined on New Years Day. Here’s to success in our writing souls!

I don’t want to be in my inbox. This app is perfect.. I subscribe to a dozen or more Substack newsletters. I’m also one of those people who has a fraught relationship with their e-mail inbox. I don’t want to spend more time in my inbox(es)! This app is delicious nectar from heaven. It just works. My newsletters show up. The reading experience is smooth. The app is quick. And I don’t have to be distracted by the wayward work email or wild email promo when trying to catch up on reading. The inbox reminds me of the good old days of social media. I subscribe to certain creators and what they published is served up to me in chronological order!!! Thanks for building this. Excited to see what comes next.

Like X but better. I created a substack because I love writing and one day would like to become an author. In the meantime I have plans to share insights that have helped me over the years. That being said I was surprised to find that substack was more than a place to write newsletters for people to read but it was also a place to connect with other like minded creatives. This is why I would describe my experience with substack as like X or twitter but better. Not only can you produce long form writing on substack but you can make shorter posts as well without the same character limit imposed by twitter. I’ve tried both platforms and substack suits me much better

Has changed very quickly past its original intent - maybe. I liked substack in the beginning.... reading about writers and the process and other similar, somewhat creative and artistic outlets. But lately Substack has not produce the niche I was looking for. In a matter of 6-9 months it has exploded into an abhorrent reproduction of Tik-Tok or Facebook joiners. It has gone from 'sharing' to egotistical communication acts that lack any meaningful content, focusing on personal opinion. At least Tik Tok has adorable animal videos, but I didn't originally pick Substack to watch vacuous videos. I recently subscribed to one person/topic and I received subscriptions to five additional people, 'friends', posts I never would have considered - really disappointed. I didn't join this for Facebook idiocy either. The original person of substance I subscribed to has his own blog and I can read his substantial, melodious posts on the blog without the trash.

5 star wut. Nov 26 UPDATE: Every time I think this app can’t get worse, the developers outdo themselves exponentially. The only reason I use this app is to listen to the articles. The latest update makes it excruciatingly hard to get to that feature in any particular newsletter. It’s like three layers in, if you can even figure out how to peel back the first layer. I’ve never felt such profound frustration when using any application in my entire life. Ever. - This is consistently the worst, most frustrating app on my phone. It’s like they pay their developers bonuses to make each release worse than the last. Unnecessary UI changes all the time. Bad algorithm. And the way they treat their writers as cash cows is terrible. This app is so frustrating to use, but it’s the only platform that carries many newsletters I like to read. Frankly I hope they fold and everyone moves to a better solution.

Connect. I stumbled onto Substack while looking long through Pinterest. I’m not big user of TickTock or other social media platforms as I don’t find many things to connect with. So find this app where I can read about real life, people, and connect through their writing which many of them take the time to write feels more real. This is the first time I have ever written a review for any platform out there. The only thing I wish was different was the way we subscribe and buy articles. I wish there was an option to buy specific articles without paying for the whole subscription because I read from many different people. Other than that I love this app.

Not loving most recent update! Housekeeping is way too hard to find!. Mostly love the app and the things I get to read. But the housekeeping stuff (credit cards, notifications) is too hard to find . . . . Since we each have a profile, it should be easily found from there - especially since choices are applied to everything attached to the person/profile! Glitches galore emerging: ALL in Inbox is a month old; everything froze the past few days is flagged as saved though I didn’t flag it bon the other hand, at least I see it somewhere! Give us a way to choose the order of our inbox (oldest to newest or newest to oldest, but definitely NOT RANDOM or mosh mash!). And GIVE US ACCESS TO DIRECT PROBLEM REPORTING. Support doesn’t help if I’d doesn’t answer OUR questions!!!!

Poorly implemented identity options. So, in terms of reading usability, Substack works fine. Unfortunately, Substack, as a piece of software, was written for someone who only has one email, and one account on any given platform. As someone who has been using the internet since a teenager, that’s not really my use case and it has been frustrating to use the app. I would honestly recommend anyone downloading the app to uninstall it immediately and use the desktop version. I dont think an application where I am unable to log out is safe or secure and only the limited nature of the data collected in Substack prevents me from going on a “malware rant”. I love your platform and the reach it has but I will likely be attempting to start somewhere else soon because this is a very poor user experience

Love Substack as a reader and a writer!. I love Substack from both a Reader standpoint and a Writer standpoint. It is an intuitive and user-friendly platform that has exactly the tools and features I find most useful. And it gives them to us in a professional, elegant interface where we get to hang out with one another. Love having my favorite writers all in one place, and as a literary professional, I’m enjoying building a Substack presence far more than my experiences with social media and personal websites. Substack does for writers and readers what Apple did for computer users—provides an enjoyable experience within a “lean production” environment—simplicity, efficiency, productivity.

Too many notifications. Substack does not provide an option to turn off notifications for every new post for channels you subscribe to. This means either you have turn off all notifications (and miss reactions to your own posts) or get spammed with notifications you don’t need. This shouldn’t be so hard to figure out, Substack - provide an option for turning off notifications for new posts!!! I think they may have fixed this; Substack links don’t show previews on any social media platform. This is because the developers added a directive to disallow platforms to pull title/image and other information from your post. As a result any Substack url you share has a generic “Substack | Home” title and generic image. How can a blogging site be this bad on such a basic functionality?

Substack Hero. Aaron Parnas is a great and compassionate journalist, lawyer, humanitarian and animal enthusiast who brings the truth about politics to a devouring audience. He is dedicated to getting the facts out there as they break,in this never ending news cycle we live in now. His diligence does not go unnoticed and we appreciate all he does consistently in this vile and hostile government that we are facing in real time. He brings a smile to our faces by sharing the good news posts about medical breakthroughs and animal welfare so that we know there are still great people out there still doing the best they can. We owe a debt of gratitude to Aaron and his wife for his support and service to our wonderful country! Thank you Aaron for everything! Stay safe and well. From a loyal fan.

Wow!. Every American needs to read this about RFK Jr.!! I’m a nurse and don’t know much about politics but am a follower of Dr Robert Malone, Dr Peter McCullough, Front Alliance Doctors, and RFK’s children defense! I am an undocumented vaccine injury in 1960, almost died from small pox vaccination. Convulsing seizures,105 degree temp, listless (dish rag per mother), and doctors told my parents not to tell anyone and never told them a diagnosis, but to never have me vaccinated again as it could kill me. When Covid came around, I was fearful with my comorbidities, I would never survive, as I knew I would not be having a vaccine. I had researched and learned that I had suffered “post vaccinial encephalitis” and was one of the lucky ones. I have the utmost respect for Bobby Jr and his work and when he announced his independent candidacy, I said to many that I thought he and Trump should get together! You have no idea how many laughs that brought! So their merge was more than pure joy to me! Even though I said it often, I never in my wildest dreams thought it could happen !! Thank you, Levi, for writing this great article!!

Independent and Important!. I used to page/scroll past political articles, thinking “In the end, God wins, so I can’t be bothered to increase my blood pressure by worrying about who’s in the government.” Used to. Now, I watch in horror as a man who promised to be a dictator from his first day in office is fulfilling that promise…and mainstream media is accepting it! I don’t believe we’re in the last days of the United States—I’m not that frantic—but I do believe it’s not a good idea to ignore what’s going on. The writers on Substack (skilled former journalists from publications like The New York Times, Washington Post, and Time magazine) provide unbiased, independent takes on current events in a way that makes me feel informed but not pushed into a “we’re losing everything!” box. I appreciate that.

Substack, you need to go back to basics. Don’t get wrong, Substack as a social media platform for meaningful discussions and blogging is second to none. As an App it actively encourages beginning writers (and mainstream ones at that) to creatively express themselves in an amazing, open-door way that can’t be found elsewhere. But, Substack made a misstep when it added a “reel” button. The mentality that you have to be exactly like your competition is exactly what has destroyed so many media apps before this, and likewise this button runs counter to Substack’s stated goals as an app made for active community based discussion and writing. Reels as a feature sweep all that good long form content away. It is horrible and wrong and it is best to remove it before it tarnishes the rest of the app. I come to this review as someone who dearly loves Substack as a platform, but these changes lay as the one thing weighing it down for me, and worse, making me second guess my devotion.

Spot-on. I’m 76 and a lifelong teetotaler. I well remember the characteristics of wet and dry drunks and will remember them until I draw my last breath. The uncontrolled, or barely controlled rage of someone feeling sorry for themself, because they can’t have their bottle, is not something easily forgotten. At least, there’s a chance a wet drunk will pass out, before they hurt, or kill, those they profess to love. A dry drunk will find fault with everyone around them and will overreact, with lightening fast reflexes, as hurtfully as they possibly can, regardless of how trivial the presumed slight. Their rage knows no bounds and the mental and physical pain they inflict can be life-altering, or life-destroying, for those who live through it. I’m not sure I should thank you, for yours is a painful reminder. But, it’s always with me, nonetheless. I readily recognized the ghosts of my father in Hegseth’s actions, from the jump. Having spent a career in the Air Force, I made every effort to make every Senator see Hegseth for what he is. The arrogance of their disregard and my failure to prevent his confirmation will haunt me, along with the memory of my father, for the remainder of my life. I’m long past SecDef control and long past my father’s control, for the most part. But, I’m reasonably sure, that Pete Hegseth will make his mark on the current generation of patriots, especially the alpha dogs. I just hope his puffing, wet or dry, doesn’t convince his old acolyte, Donald J. Trump, that innocent lives should be needlessly sacrificed, or that nuclear weapons are needed. Regardless, the current military generation will suffer his rages, for the dishonest inactions of our political elite. Your analysis is spot-on.

War on Women. I could have written sooner, so many times. I love you Joyce and your gift of knowledge to us all is priceless. This one touched my heart in many ways. My Grandmother was a Suffragette in NYC. One of many who marched and endured; giving women the Right to vote. I have her signed membership card and pin, engraved with her name and year. It means the World to me. I’ll be 74 in November and have done my share of protests for Women’s Rights and stopping the senseless war in Vietnam. Those were my Boston years. It pains me to see our Nation go backwards regarding women and rights for all American and Immigrants who have enriched our nation with their culture, families, food and education. America; we are a land of immigrants and richer for that. I digressed. Thank You Joyce! Lorna

Super Glitchy App and Impossible to Find a Support # or Email. I've repeatedly tried to log into your app because the mobile website doesn't allow you to view a full log unless you download the app. However, the app forces the use of a "magic link" to log in, and when I click the link, the app just spins endlessly without loading. I reached out to customer service, and the chatbot suggested I reset my password and try a different browser. However, the issue isn't with my password or browser—it's with the app itself. What difference would resetting my password or switching browsers make when the app continues to glitch and spin? I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app multiple times, but that hasn't resolved the issue either. Please address this app malfunction directly, as these suggested workarounds do not solve the problem.

Better through email. I check my emails on my laptop. I enjoyed the convenience of hearing robert Reich’s podcast by clicking on the email. I don’t like the extra steps needed going through Substack. I also don’t like the female robot voice reading his work either. He has his own form of inspirational speech. Please make all of his recordings available through clicking on email. Substack should be available on MacBook Pro. I have it on my iPhone, but I don’t like switching my earphones to my phone. My laptop continues to be my workhorse. I view my iPhone as an entertainment device, but listening to Mr Reich is a part of my work routine, as pleasurable as it is…. Thank you. Also, commenting should also be made more easily available on my laptop too, btw. This was the original sin. Now I have to login through my iPhone, which knocked my rating down yet another star…

Awful App. My paid content is hidden away. It doesn’t appear under the paid section or any of the three bottom nav bar buttons. Instead, I have to tap through to my profile pic, then find the paid content and tap there and it opens up the paid stuff. Instead of seeing the newer paid content, I’m seeing older stuff from random people or nothing in the paid tab. Why hide the stuff I’m willing to pay for? I can’t believe anyone who uses substack would think this is good. You have to be going out of your way to sabotage the app. Let’s also not talk about asking me multiple times to connect to my contacts. You asked once, fine. But to keep asking? If the person creating content I’m willing to pay for offers his stuff anywhere else, I will dump this garbage happily. Amateur hour at best. Substack? Substandard.

Poor page targeting by links in substack generated email. Again and again when I click on a link like you like an email newsletter or write a comment, the sub stack app opens on an irrelevant homepage rather than connected to the newsletter. Sometimes the app opens in the wrong place, but then automatically forwards to a relevant page in a browser. And even sometimes beyond that back to the app. But the automated navigation to reach the relevant spot where they like or the comment can be made too often stops on some general homepage. Manually trying to find the page in the app where the post is and where one can comment is very very difficult. Sometimes the only way I succeed is to go to a browser and search for what I’m looking for on substack, which is a kind of a heavy lift just for liking something.

no support whatsoever. If I could give zero stars, I would. It’s a cool platform with great potential, but what you need to know is that if anything goes wrong, you will have absolutely no way to fix it or contact someone to help you adjust the scenario. Getting double charged? You’re on your own. Locked out of your account? On your own. There is neither a support email nor a support phone number that exists for this company, which itself should have you running away. What you do have access to is an utterly useless, frankly insulting, AI bot that will tell you it will help you but weeks later nothing will have happened. Rinse repeat; it’s mid September, I’ve been locked out of my account since June. Obviously I’m just gonna have to write it off as a loss and get on with my life, but honestly, I wouldn’t wish this experience on my worst enemy. I’ve been growing my following for two years and now all that effort is wasted.

Worsening ux. I used to be able to see lots of articles at once and roughly how long each article is, no more. Now i see a giant graphic for each article and only two or three fit on my screen at a time, and you have no way of changing that appearance. I also used to be able to manage a queue of episodes to be read aloud, i just long pressed on an article and i could add it. Now there’s a queue with no obvious way to add to it from the increasingly ugly list of articles, and if i try to manage it i invariably accidentally start playing a thing i already listened to because that’s what send to add itself to my queue. Maybe my favorite is this stupid view that pops up when an article starts playing. It adds no meaningful ui, and when you do a home swipe it messes with the scrubber. Oh, and your voice over skip quotes for some reason. I actually want to read the quote the author put in the article.

Great phone app, OK tablet app. I prefer to read my subscribed Substacks in email, but I find the app super useful for finding previous posts, missed details, etc. However, it’s really only great on my phone. The iPad app is, well, it’s a giant iPhone app. No sidebar, no navigation, no taking advantage of the larger screen and additional input methods. Sure it’s fine for reading in portrait mode, but when you’re looking for something, trying to catch up on a bunch of subscriptions, etc., I find myself wanting something more akin to the Apple News app. Also, the “you haven’t enabled notifications” pop-over video you can’t close is annoying. Why not the standard “please enable notifications” dialog that every other app uses so I can tell it no right there?

There’s Finally an App!. I’m excited to see that Substack has an app now so that I can view all of the writers I’m subscribed to. Since I started with reading Glenn Greenwald’s substack, the site has been my go-to for journalism that I find trustworthy and worth reading. Individual people putting out their own content free of corporate pressure (at least that’s what it’s billed as). Having them all come through e-mail was fine generally but I enjoy the smooth movement into the app to see all of my subscriptions on one list instead of hunting for them in my email. I know it just started and will need to be updated so I fully realize the possibility of future issues with the app that will need correcting but nevertheless I’m glad to see that it’s been created.

Wow. The shield number of quality posts on here is enough to make somebody who doesn’t leave reviews a nice review. I’m absolutely blown away by the quality of work. I’ve come across in the short time. I’ve been using this app. I often find myself exiting news articles before they’re done because they’re just not good quality subject matter or the writer is lacking. A few of the posts I’ve read on here screamed, professional quality, an extremely high rating amongst professionals at that. I’ve never left a review before, but this was deserving of it. These guys did a fantastic job and I intend to continue using this and eventually subscribe.

Video player glitch. Sorry to do a tech report in a review; I don’t know another way to submit feedback. If there is, please advise. The video player screen, black background, stays stuck in the first frame, while the audio plays normally, if I start the iOS app from the email link. I can fix it by tapping the back icon, upper left, to the same image as in the email, then tapping the image. The video starts over from the beginning, but now both audio and video work. Also, sometimes the screen will lock, not letting me scroll or go to other screens. Otherwise, it’s a good app. Neither bug is fatal, just annoying. YouTube’s app has more, and much more annoying, problems, FWIW.

Header uploading is virtually impossible with no support options. The new updates have made it essentially impossible to upload a header for your account. Even upon editing an image to fit the proportions. Images that previously worked are now not allowed, and from a coding perspective it seems completely nonsensical. For such a simple feature to be so impossible to navigate is beyond frustrating and the lack of options or remedies is insult to injury. Makes me want to find a new place to house my publications. Please consider letting us upload images outside of the required 1100px x 220px, and if they stretch so be it. Or at the very least allow the images that MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS to upload. Edit: After reading other reviews my highest advice is to fire your wildly incompetent coders, they are destroying your website and app and I will now definitely be finding a new place to upload my work. Sad to see a decent platform be demolished by crap tech hires.

Forensic Politics. I 'like' this word and approach as an inclusionary view of how my personal wakeup call to AI can be organized. Eric, your views offer humanity a shoulder tap reality check re: whether we can-will begin or continue to think for ourselves, value our personal consciousness world views and by doing so, endeavor to objectively AND subjectively examine and assess EVERYTHING. I recently shared a questionable post of origin and swear to not do again. May we request news/fb/ etc origination aids again? This is the only way we can even begin to pull back our inner covers and those of the scam/terror purveyors who would have us surrender thought/action and choice as a sacred right. To anyone. Ever. Many thanks for this and for all of the service. Can't put us ALL down! Hehe Migwech(thank you in the Potawatomi language) Actually, there IS no word for thank you. When an offering and an awareness occurs..THAT is the happening. Migwech Eric and Bama mine, Until we meet again.. Minisa Crumbo Halsey To accurately perceive info and to maintain authenticity in the spirit of light and love, balance and harmony, now and forever more! Aho!.

Not Appropriate For Those Who Work From Home. Dear Substack Team, I am writing to express my concerns regarding the “customer support” phone number and address information that Substack demands in order to continue using the platform. While I understand that certain companies may need to comply with payment processing and tax regulations, the request for personal details - especially when I’ve clarified that I run a blog from my personal residence and not a physical store or business - is invasive and unnecessary. At this point, I no longer feel comfortable continuing with Substack and would like my account and all personal information (including bank and business details) to be completely removed from your platform. Please confirm the deletion of my information and account at your earliest convenience. Thank you, Elise Cairo TeaWith10H

Contentious vaccines. Two hundred years of indoctrination has brought us to this point. The question is, was the vaccines contentious at the time of small pox, polio , Spanish flu etc. was the propaganda machine ( safe & effective , science is setteled , there is no link between vaccine & Autism etc. etc. ) operative at that time , indoctrinating institutions , scientists & doctors like at the present time ? Where was the real science ? Don’t they know the data on the health of American children are abominable ? To truly answer these questions one has to go back to the root of the problem, during the time of Louis Pasture & the unknown Anthony Beauchamp. This should shed a huge amount of light between the “ anti vaxers & the vaccine cultists or the vaccine euphorics I