🆚 Paddle vs. Substack
- 📈 Substack is much more popular than Paddle.
- 🌎 Substack is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
- 🌍 Paddle is more popular in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Armenia.
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About
Paddle is a software-as-a-service commerce platform that provides payments, tax compliance and subscription infrastructure for software companies.
It acts as the merchant of record, handling global sales tax collection and remittance across 200+ markets, supports hosted and inline checkouts, one-time and recurring billing, offers developer APIs and webhooks for subscription lifecycle events, and provides reporting on MRR, churn, and ARR.
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.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in the United States in the Online Payments 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 Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Subscriptions category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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 3,823,966 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.