Writizzy vs Ghost

Both platforms take 0% of your reader revenue, so the real cost is the platform fee, and Ghost(Pro)'s is several times higher at every subscriber tier. At 1,000 subscribers, Ghost's Publisher plan is about $348/year while Writizzy is roughly $99, the same blog, newsletter, and paid subscriptions for about a third of the price. Yes, Ghost is open source and free to self-host, but then you take on hosting, updates, security, backups, and a transactional email provider, real costs that don't show up on the pricing page.

Writizzy translates any post into a ready-to-review draft in one click, with automatic hreflang and a reader-facing language switcher, so the same article can rank and be read in every language you publish. Ghost has no native multilingual support, multi-language setups mean running separate publications or custom theme work.

Connect your social channels once, and Writizzy posts an announcement for every article you publish, automatically or with an "ask me first" step. On Ghost the same thing means wiring up Zapier or a third-party integration and maintaining it yourself. Writizzy pushes your work out to the audiences you already have elsewhere, built in.

Both platforms publish clean, fast pages with sitemaps and schema.org data, so the foundations are comparable. Writizzy goes further with a post-publication SEO audit that gives each article a health score, plus asynchronous dead-link detection that flags broken links as your archive grows. Ghost has solid technical SEO, but no built-in audit or dead-link checks.

Here Ghost genuinely wins, and it's worth saying plainly. Welcome series, drip campaigns, and automated email sequences are built in and mature. Writizzy sends newsletters and gates content by tier, but doesn't yet offer the same automated sequences, so if email automation is core to how you grow, Ghost has the edge today.

Ghost has been around since 2013, powers many well-known publications, and is open source, so you can self-host it and own your infrastructure outright, with a large ecosystem of themes and integrations. Writizzy is younger and fully hosted: there's nothing to install or maintain, and you still own your audience through your custom domain and can export everything anytime, but you can't run it on your own servers.