Built around its own network. Zero setup and instant reach, but you publish on medium.com, you can't export your followers, and the Partner Program decides your payout.
Writizzy
Built around an audience you own. Your domain, your subscriber list, real SEO, your own design, and 0% commission on the subscriptions you set.
Choose Medium if its built-in readership and zero setup are your priority. Choose Writizzy if you want to own your domain, your list, and your revenue.
At a glance
Medium
Writizzy
Where your content lives
Medium's platform
Your own domain & platform
Audience ownership
Followers you can't export
Your subscriber list, exportable
SEO equity
Builds medium.com
Builds your domain authority
Monetization
Partner Program, opaque payouts
0% commission, your own Stripe
Design & branding
One uniform look
Themes, colors, your brand
Built-in discovery
Large reader network
Growing discover feed + RSS
Self-select
Which one is right for you?
Pick the column that sounds like you.
You're building something you ownBest for most writers
Choose Writizzy if…
You want a home you own: your domain, your URLs, your SEO equity.
You want to build an email list you can take anywhere, not followers locked inside a platform.
You want to monetize on your terms and keep 100%, not depend on the Partner Program.
You care about design, branding, and a real blog built for search.
You want zero setup and a built-in audience from day one.
Medium's recommendation network is your main source of new readers.
You'd rather not manage a domain, a list, or any infrastructure.
You're writing for reach today, not to build an owned asset.
If that's you, Medium is a fine choice today.
The full breakdown
The dimensions that actually decide it.
A clear bottom line on each, including where Medium comes out ahead.
01
Short term vs long term
SEO & discoverability
Give Medium its due: medium.com has enormous domain authority, so a new post can get indexed and rank in days, faster than a brand-new personal domain could. The catch is whose brand wins. Every ranking and backlink builds medium.com, not you, and you keep it only as long as Medium lets you. Writizzy publishes on your own domain with sitemaps, schema.org structured data, fast pages, and a post-publication SEO audit, so the authority is slower to build but compounds into an asset you own.
Bottom line: Short term, Medium's borrowed authority can rank you faster. Long term, Writizzy's SEO equity is yours, and it doesn't evaporate if Medium changes the rules.
Medium does let you map a custom domain (with a paid membership), but a custom domain only changes the URL: every Medium publication still uses the same fixed layout, with almost no control over colors, typography, or structure. Writizzy gives you a growing theme library with control over colors, typography, and dark mode, so the whole publication looks like you, not like a Medium page on a different URL.
Bottom line: If your brand matters, Writizzy wins on design control. A custom domain alone doesn't make a Medium publication look like yours.
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. Medium has no multilingual support at all.
Bottom line: If you write, or want to write, in more than one language, Writizzy does natively what Medium simply can't.
Connect your social channels once, and Writizzy posts an announcement for every article you publish, automatically or with one-click approval, to Mastodon, Bluesky, Discord (and more). Medium keeps your work inside medium.com and its own feed.
Bottom line: Medium grows you inside its network. Writizzy helps you reach the audiences you own off-platform, too.
Here Medium genuinely wins, and it's worth saying plainly. Its recommendation engine, topic feeds, and large reader base can put your writing in front of new readers with zero audience-building on your part. Writizzy has a growing discover feed and reaches readers through RSS and cross-posting, but nothing at Medium's scale yet.
Bottom line: If discovery with zero setup is your priority today, Medium has the edge. Just remember the reach is rented, and the algorithm owns it.
Side by side
Full feature comparison.
Every line, for the thorough evaluator.
Feature
Medium
Writizzy
Writing & publishing
Blog posts
Built-in newsletter to a list you own
Emails followers, no list you own
Drafts & scheduled publishing
Tags
Topic tags only
SEO tag pages
Multilingual blogs + automatic translation
SEO & discoverability
SEO equity on your own domain
Ranks medium.com
SEO audit & health score
Design & customization
Multiple themes
One design for everyone
Growing library
Colors & typography control
Custom domain
Ownership & monetization
You set your own paid subscriptions
Partner Program only
0% commission
Own & export your subscriber list
Transparent, direct payouts
Opaque, algorithm-based
Community & discovery
Built-in reader network
Large audience
Growing
Auto cross-post to social networks
Comments & reactions
Switching is easy
Moving from Medium? We'll help.
Four steps. Your posts and images transfer automatically, and the whole move takes under 15 minutes.
1
Request your Medium export
In Medium, go to Settings → Security and apps → Download your information. Medium emails you a ZIP with all your posts within a few minutes.
2
Upload the ZIP to Writizzy
In Writizzy, go to Dashboard → Import and upload the ZIP. The importer parses your HTML posts and converts them to clean Markdown automatically.
Automatic
3
Review your formatting
Browse your imported posts to check formatting, embedded images, and code blocks. Medium-specific embeds may need a quick adjustment.
4
Connect your custom domain
Point your own domain at Writizzy for a branded, professional URL. No domain yet? Start free on yourname.writizzy.blog.
What transfers, and what doesn't
Posts and articles
Drafts
Images and embedded media
Text formatting and structure
Tags
FollowersMedium doesn't export follower emails, so announce your move and invite them to re-subscribe
Easy to use. Straight to the point. You write and publish. That's it. Amazing work.
TTed MirraIndie writer
Gave me the final push to write my first blog post. Incredibly intuitive, focusing only on the essentials without any clutter.
YyoannaNewsletter writer
Totally removes the overwhelming side of current tools to focus on writing, while being at a great price.
MMaxInPublicSolo creator
Good to know
Frequently asked questions.
Can I get my Medium follower list?
No. Medium does not include follower email addresses in its data export. The best approach is to publish a final post on Medium announcing your move, with a direct link to your new Writizzy subscription page, and share it on social media. Many creators also add a link to their new site in their Medium bio. From then on, every subscriber you collect on Writizzy is yours and fully exportable.
Will I earn less without the Medium Partner Program?
It depends on how you monetize. The Partner Program pays you an opaque, algorithm-driven cut of member reading time that you don't control. On Writizzy you set your own paid subscriptions through your own Stripe account and keep 100% of what readers pay, with 0% platform commission. You trade Medium's passive, unpredictable payouts for direct revenue you own and can grow.
How well does Medium formatting transfer?
Standard formatting, headings, bold, italic, lists, blockquotes, images, and links, transfers cleanly. Medium-specific embeds (like embedded Medium posts or custom widgets) may need manual replacement. Code blocks and image captions are preserved. We recommend reviewing your most important posts after import to catch any edge cases.
Can I use a custom domain right away?
Yes. On Writizzy you can connect your own domain during or after import. If you already own one, just point your DNS to Writizzy; if not, your blog stays at yourname.writizzy.blog until you add one. Medium supports custom domains too, but only with a paid membership, and your publication still lives inside Medium's fixed layout, the domain changes the URL, not the design control or audience ownership.
I write for a Medium publication, can I import those posts?
Your Medium export includes every post you authored, including those published under a publication. Posts written by other contributors are not in your export. If you manage a publication and want to migrate everything, each author exports and imports their own posts separately.
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