Substack
A home for readers
Total ratings
4.83
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Access to a wide variety of content and writers
- The algorithm effectively curates content that users enjoy
- Overall reading experience is appreciated despite app issues
- Interface allows for easy navigation when it functions properly
- Diverse and engaging articles available on the platform
Cons
- App is buggy with frequent crashes and instability
- Poor search functionality and slow loading times
- Inability to edit posts after publishing and lost drafts
- Frustrating login issues and account management problems
- Autoplaying media can disrupt reading experience
Most mentioned
- Buggy and unstable performance
- Difficulties with login and using the app functionality
- Inability to edit posts after publishing
- Issues with notification links not redirecting properly
- Frustration from autoplaying videos and audio disruptions
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-01 |  | | As a reader, it's functional but glitchy. Overall, it's poorly tested and unreliable for editing, notifications, and searching. It has the weakest search capabilities I've experienced, simply no good reason for that. Forces you back to the website for most account payment functions. |
| 2025-01-31 |  | | Edited review, I do not need email notifications, yet there seems to not be a way. In app notifications are fine. Adding new subscriptions sometimes freezes the app. Overall love the service and the algorithm seems to catch the things I would enjoy, just some tweaking would lessen the barrage of notifications. |
| 2025-01-31 |  | | Cannot login with password. It gives you the option, then tells you it blocked you as unrecognized, but verifying on that stupid useless email that you're you does not unblock you. it's click an email in some other program or nothing. Super frustrating, and I already hate the app because it can't even let you just log in. And can't schedule a post either, which means the pain of getting signed in on app was worthless. I have to use desktop anyway. Uninstalling |
| 2025-01-31 |  | | Irrespective of the content, and there are some good writers on substack (if you want to subscribe to them), the app is extremely bug-gy. Windows Web access works slightly better, but the Android app is one frustration after another. I've waited a couple of months before posting this in case I got more familiar, but it hasn't improved. It's also extraordinarily slow. It doesn't show up in the view of open apps, 'close all' doesn't close it, what you are typing can be lost if you switch apps... |
| 2025-01-31 |  | | I enjoy reading the articles, but the app is amateurish at best. An app primarily for reading should not have autoplaying videos. This feature alone keeps me from using it anywhere in public. Also, articles should open at the beginning, not some random place near the middle or end. Seriously, I've had 10 year old students who could do a better job. Maybe fire your development team and take it to a middle school. They might rename it Skibbidy Stack but it would probably work better. |
| 2025-01-31 |  | | There is clearly a carefully curated set of reviewers. The application is not intuitive and definitely not for writers. I've searched for usability and find it lacking. I have to use a desktop to start a new publication, I can't find my drafts anywhere and of course, it's not easy to write anything. |
| 2025-01-27 |  | | Great app but I need to report a frustrating bug. When subscribing, it causes me not to be able to do anything else. I get the popup at the bottom of the screen that I have subscribed to that person and then can't go back, scroll, or do anything at all. I have to close out the app completely and come back. This is on a Samsung S23. |
| 2025-01-26 |  | | The content I wanted (Borowitz Report) is good, but the substack experience is lacking. Trying to create a login seemed to include a spiral of log-in-this-way/no-login-that-way prompts. Perhaps if I had the app installed first, it would have been better. Once I got into the app, it quickly turned into a data harvesting/don't you want all this other content too? kind of thing that puts me off. I want this one thing, so I'll try to ignore substack in favor of that, I guess. |
| 2025-01-26 |  | | First of its great having access to so many kinds of writers. But on my android (a Samsung galaxy S10) i have a few issues. When I open links to outside sources or open my app management screen substack closes. And it has been loading a blank screen with useless menu buttons when I open notifications from subcribed newsletters. Really makes using the app inconvenient |
| 2025-01-25 |  | | Spelling mistakes can’t be corrected after publishing. While this makes sense for sent emails, edits aren’t allowed even in the original post without sending emails. Fixing errors means archiving the original and creating a new post, making the creation time inaccurate. The platform feels cluttered, the posts require manual indexing, and statistics include your own views. As a result, the inability to edit mistakes led me to leave the platform for other sites. |
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