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Substack

Free newsletter publishing platform with optional paid subscriptions and a 10% fee.

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Proceed with cautionPublishing platform with minimal audience management and a 10% cut of paid subscriptions.

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Price

Free plan available

Nonprofit offer

None found

Available in

🌍Anywhere

Suits

Volunteer-run · Small · Medium

Great for

Charities and think-tanks publishing regular long-form writing, reports or commentary
Organisations wanting to build a public readership
Free and very easy to start
Built-in audience discovery
No monthly fee

Watch out for

Teams needing segmentation, donor-linked emails or automated journeys
Organisations that want their own branded emails and website
Few audience-management and segmentation tools
10% cut of paid subscriptions
You build an audience on Substack's platform
Not designed for charities

Problems it solves

“I want to publish a regular newsletter about our work for free”“We want supporters to pay for a premium newsletter”“Our charity wants a blog and email in one place”“We have no budget for email software”“I want to share our impact stories with people who subscribe”

About Substack+

Substack is a publishing platform for newsletters, podcasts and community posts. It is free to start, and it only takes a cut (10%) if you charge for paid subscriptions. It is good for a charity that wants to publish regular stories or commentary, but it has limited tools for segmenting audiences or tracking donors.

Pricing: Free to publish. If you charge for paid subscriptions, Substack takes 10% plus Stripe payment fees. Details are from third-party guides because Substack's help site blocked automated access.

Key features+

Email newslettersPublic web archive and discovery networkPaid subscriptionsPodcasts and videoCommunity chatBasic stats

Works with (1)+

Stripe

Data & privacy+

US-based. Subscriber data is held by Substack; GDPR and hosting details were not confirmed during this research.

How sure are we?+

Partly confirmed on the vendor's pages; some details from reputable secondary sources. Prices and nonprofit programs change often, so check with Substack before you commit. Rankings on Nonprofit Tools are never for sale.

Sources · last checked 2026-10-02