Writizzy is built around an audience you own and can take anywhere; Substack is built around its own network, a bigger built-in audience, but one that lives inside its walls.
Updated June 2026
Who owns your audience? And how much of what you earn do you actually keep?
Built around its own network. It can bring you readers through its app and recommendations, but it owns the relationship with your audience, and it takes 10% of your paid revenue.
Built around reach you control. A real blog with real SEO, your own design and custom domain, publishing in any language. Monetize your content with 0% commission.
Choose Substack if its built-in discovery and reader app are your main growth engine. Choose Writizzy if you want to be found on Google, own your audience, and keep more of what you earn.
Pick the column that sounds like you.
You're building something you own
Discovery is your growth engine
If that's you, Substack is a fine choice today.
A clear bottom line on each, including where Substack comes out ahead.
This is Substack's single weakest area. It's optimized for email and its own network, not for search engines. Writizzy ships sitemaps, schema.org structured data, fast pages, SEO-friendly tag pages, and a post-publication SEO audit with a per-article health score, plus async dead-link detection.
Every Substack looks like Substack. Writizzy gives you a growing theme library with control over colors, typography, and dark mode for readers. Both platforms support a custom domain on paid plans, but only Writizzy lets the whole publication look like you rather than like everyone else.
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. No modern competitor does this natively, and Substack has no multilingual support at all.
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 many more). Substack keeps you inside its own walls with Notes; Writizzy pushes your work out to the audiences you already have elsewhere.
Here, Substack genuinely wins, and it's worth saying so plainly. Its recommendation network, the Notes social feed, and a dedicated reader mobile app can drive real new subscribers, especially in popular niches. Writizzy has a growing discover feed and reaches readers through RSS and cross-posting, but nothing at Substack's scale yet.
Substack charges nothing upfront and takes 10% of your paid revenue, on top of Stripe fees (~2.9% + €0.30 per transaction). Writizzy takes 0% commission and charges a flat monthly fee based on your subscriber count, while payouts go through your own Stripe account. At low revenue, Substack's no-fixed-cost model can be cheaper. As paid revenue grows, the 10% compounds and the flat fee comes out ahead.
Every line, for the thorough evaluator.
Substack charges nothing upfront but takes 10% of your revenue. Writizzy charges a flat fee, no commission. Drag the sliders to find your crossover point.
Platform fees and Stripe fees are both included.
Annual billing (10 months charged, 2 free). Stripe fees estimated at 2.9% + €0.30 / transaction. Plan tier is based on total subscriber count (free + paid). Pricing verified June 2026.
4 steps. Your posts and free subscribers transfer automatically.
In Substack, go to Settings → Exports and click "Download export". You'll get a ZIP with all your posts, drafts, and metadata.
In Writizzy, go to Dashboard → Import, select Substack, and upload your ZIP. Posts, drafts, tags, and dates transfer automatically.
AutomaticIn Substack, go to Subscribers → Export to download a CSV with email addresses and subscription status.
Upload the CSV in Writizzy and your free subscribers are added right away. Paying subscribers carry over separately: reconnect the same Stripe account you used on Substack and their subscriptions keep running, with no one having to re-subscribe.
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Substack charges a 10% platform fee on all paid subscription revenue, on top of Stripe processing fees (~2.9% + €0.30 per transaction). On €5,000/month in revenue, that's €500/month, €6,000/year, going to Substack alone, before payment processing.
For creators just starting out, or whose growth depends on Substack's discovery network and reader app, Substack can absolutely be worth it, there's no fixed cost until you monetize. The math changes as paid revenue grows: the 10% commission compounds, and a 0%-commission platform with a flat fee like Writizzy becomes cheaper while also giving you SEO, design control, and audience ownership.
The main alternatives are Ghost (open source, self-hosted or cloud, 0% fee), Beehiiv (newsletter-focused, 0% fee on Scale plan, strong email tools), and Writizzy (0% fee, flat monthly rate, full design control and blog features). The right choice depends on whether you prioritize email tools, design flexibility, or cost.
No, you retain ownership of your content. Your subscriber list exports anytime, and because Substack bills through your own Stripe account, your paying subscribers aren't locked in either: reconnect that Stripe account to Writizzy and their subscriptions move across without re-subscribing.
Go to your Substack dashboard → Settings → Exports, then download your archive ZIP. Most platforms accept this format directly for post import. For subscribers, export your list as a CSV and re-import it; free subscribers transfer immediately. Paid subscribers depend on where you go: most platforms make them re-subscribe, but because Substack bills through your own Stripe account, a platform like Writizzy can reconnect it so their subscriptions keep running untouched.
Yes. Because Substack bills through your own Stripe account, your paying subscribers come across to Writizzy and keep their subscription, no one re-subscribes. There is a right order to do it in so you never cancel anyone by accident, which the migration guide walks you through step by step.
Read the paid subscriber migration guideFree up to 100 subscribers. No credit card required. Import from Substack in a few clicks.