Substack launches iOS app

Should you subscribe to a number of Substack writers and are actually discovering your e mail inbox inundated with newsletters, immediately is your fortunate day.

Substack, the subscription publication platform, has simply launched its first cellular app within the Apple App Retailer. Anybody can obtain the app for his or her iOS gadgets proper now.

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The app acts as a curated assortment for all of the Substack newsletters subscriptions, sort of like an RSS reader particularly for Substack writers. Customers can view a feed of the newest newsletters they subscribe to as a substitute of sifting by all the opposite spam and work emails of their inbox. The app supplies a reader view for these posts too. As well as, the app brings in all of the put up feedback that one would discover on the internet model of those newsletters.

Substack says its information app is useful for its writers, too. Readers will have the ability to simply entry the entire content material they subscribe to, together with podcast and video content material. Plus the app’s discovery web page will assist subscribers discover new writers they could be excited about as nicely.

Hamish McKenzie, the corporate’s co-founder, shared his ideas on the brand new app on Twitter, likening it to an RSS reader. He even invoked an outdated favourite from Google that was shut down years in the past, Google Reader.

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McKenzie mentions that along with curating Substack newsletters, the app may also pull in any RSS feed, mingling your favourite blogs and web sites with the platform’s newsletters. This characteristic is fingers down essentially the most attention-grabbing characteristic. Is Substack planning to go additional down the RSS reader route with its app? It doubtless relies on what number of readers truly use it. Once more, RSS readers are nonetheless reeling from Google Reader’s closure. Whereas there have been profitable replacements, many nonetheless really feel that what made Google Reader so nice has but to be replicated.

Substack has confronted its justifiable share of controversies in recent times. Some writers have left the platform because of the firm’s stance on content material moderation and misinformation. Its new app will not actually have an effect on that in any approach, however maybe it may well assist strengthen the corporate’s argument that it is dedicated to numerous content material. 

The Subtack app is presently obtainable for iPhone and iPad. An Android model can be within the works.