🆚 Movable Type vs. Substack
- 📈 Substack is much more popular than Movable Type.
- 🌎 Substack is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
- 🌍 Movable Type is more popular in Japan and Iran.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
SubstackType
Content management system
Social media platform
About
Movable Type is a weblog publishing system written in Perl.
Substack is an online publishing and social platform that enables writers and journalists to create subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers.
It provides email newsletter distribution, a web-based archive, built-in payment processing, and audience analytics, and includes social features such as recommendations, comments, and a Notes feed for short-form posts and discovery.
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
For writers
Platform fee 10%
Payment processing
Billing fee 0.7%
Credit card fee 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction fee
For readers
Most content Free ✔️
Paid subscriptions Varies by writer
Categories
CMS › Rank #92
Blogging Platforms › Rank #12
Blogging Platforms › Rank #4
Social Media › Rank #25
Subscriptions › Rank #3
Email Marketing › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Substack social media platform is 34 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 is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy, while Movable Type is more popular in Japan and Iran.
United States
United Kingdom
Italy
Japan
Canada
Spain
France
Australia
Brazil
Germany
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the Blogging Platforms category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the CMS category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Blogging Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Substack is more popular than Movable Type in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
General News
Politics/Opinion
Sports
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.