🆚 Movable Type vs. Substack Blogs

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Substack Blogs is twice as popular as Movable Type.
🌎 Substack Blogs is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
🌍 Movable Type is more popular in Japan, China, and Hong Kong.

Movable Type

Substack Blogs

Type

Content management system

Blogging platform

About

Movable Type is a weblog publishing system written in Perl.

Substack is a newsletter and blogging platform that allows you to connect your own domain.

Headquarters

Tokyo, Japan

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

movabletype.com

substack.com #321

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️For writers

For readersSet by writers

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Substack blogging platform is 1.9 times more popular than Movable Type.

Total websites

Market share

Blogging Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Substack Blogs is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, while Movable Type is more popular in Japan, China, and Hong Kong.

Japan

United States

United Kingdom

Spain

Germany

Canada

Australia

France

Italy

Netherlands

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Blogging Platforms category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the CMS category.

⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Blogging Platforms category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Substack Blogs is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, entertainment, and business, while Movable Type is more commonly used on online shopping, forum, bulletin boards, and alcohol sites.

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Business

Politics/Opinion

Education/Reference

Personal Pages

Online Shopping

Forum/Bulletin Boards

Marketing/Merchandising

Streaming Media