๐Ÿ†š Recharge vs. Substack

Type

Payment service
Social media platform

About

Recharge is a subscription billing platform for Shopify and BigCommerce stores that manages recurring payments, subscription plans, and customer retention workflows.

It includes subscription lifecycle tools such as customer self-service portals, prepaid and gift subscriptions, cancellation and pause controls, payment retry and dunning management, and analytics for churn and cohort tracking.

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Substack is an online publishing and social platform for writers and journalists that enables creating subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers.

It combines email newsletter distribution with a web-based archive, provides 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

Santa Monica, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version โŒFree 60-day trial
Starter
$99/month
Trasaction fee1.49% + 19ยข
Pro
$499/month
Trasaction fee1.25% + 19ยข
For writers
Platform fee10%
Payment processing
Billing fee0.7%
Credit card fee2.9% + $0.30 per transaction fee
For readers
Free version โœ”๏ธ
Set by writers

Categories

Payments โ€บ Rank #18
Subscriptions โ€บ Rank #5
Subscriptions โ€บ Rank #4
Social Media โ€บ Rank #29
Email Marketing โ€บ Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Substack social media platform is 1.4 times more popular than Recharge.
Total websites

Market share

Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Substack is more popular in the United States, Canada, and France, while Recharge is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany.
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Substack is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, business, and entertainment, while Recharge is more commonly used on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty sites.
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Health
General News
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#15,090
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Name
Rank
#1,382
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See also

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