The best newsletter platforms in 2025
Newsletter platforms are digital publishing tools, specifically designed to help you create, manage, and distribute newsletters to your subscribers. These platforms offer a range of features to simplify the process of creating and delivering engaging newsletters.
Substack
—Paid email newsletters made simple
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Substack makes it simple for a writer to start a paid or free newsletter. Writers get a CMS built for publishing email newsletters, integrated payments through Stripe, and a website that can host free and subscriber-only content.
Trends.vc
—Trends.vc — Discover new markets and ideas- Overview
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Discover new markets and ideas
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Smoothie is a free newsletter that sends founders startup opportunities through visual storytelling. Why visual storytelling? Because typical newsletters are boring. Be on top of emerging opportunities like: DAOs, GPT-3, CRISPR, and Carbon Capturing!
Swapstack
—Helping advertisers grow and publishers monetize.- Overview
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For Advertisers: Scale your newsletter advertising channel with Swapstack. We'll take on the work of identifying the right publishers and newsletters who could drive value to your business, and enable you to sponsor them at scale. For Publishers: Starting, growing, and monetizing a successful newsletter is an extremely difficult process. The process of growth & monetization can be arduous, lonely and confusing. As newsletter writers ourselves, we wanted to monetize through sponsorships, but had trouble figuring out the best way to get started. We met a ton of other writers & creators in the same boat, and started building Swapstack. We started Swapstack as an attempt to make it easier for writers to do two things: 💰 Easily meet brands that want to sponsor their newsletter
Top of the Lyne
—The most exciting SaaS growth stories- Overview
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Growth strategies and the weekly news from the best product-led SaaS companies (Figma, Calendly, Notion, and more) for founders and growth leaders! Delivered straight to your inboxes 💌
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100s of proven, micro-sized copywriting and persuasion lessons in the form of articles, interviews, and courses — all yours for free. It’s like Seth Godin’s blog (short, readable, punchy content) but exclusively about copywriting and persuasion.
rasa.io
—Start sending better newsletters today.- Overview
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rasa.io uses Artificial Intelligence to send personalized Smart Newsletters from your brand to customers, prospects, employees, and partners. Our AI helps pick the most relevant articles from trusted sources for each subscriber. No two emails are the same - rasa.io sends individualized content specific to each person’s interests.
Botletter
—Send newsletters on Facebook Messenger.- Overview
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Botletter is a similar service as Mailchimp, but instead of using emails we use Facebook Messenger.
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Building a newsletter is not easy, but this dashboard makes it simple. Get better at writing, growing & monetizing your newsletter by using Newsletter OS. Gain instant access to carefully curated guides, templates, resources & tools in a single place.
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