Your writing deserves its own home on the internet. Not a rented room on Medium.
Medium controls your audience, your distribution, and your revenue. Airlancer gives you your own publication with your domain, your design, and direct access to your readers.
Everything Medium won't give you.
Medium keeps your audience, controls your distribution, and takes a cut of your earnings. With Airlancer, you own it all.
Your domain. Your brand.
Use yourbrand.com instead of medium.com/@you. No platform logos, no competing content - just your publication.
Email your audience directly.
Send newsletters to your subscribers without Medium deciding who sees your content. Your list, your control.
0% platform fees.
Set your own prices, create membership tiers, and keep what you earn. Airlancer charges 0% platform fees; Stripe fees may apply.
Export everything, anytime.
Clean exports of your content and subscriber list. Never get locked into a platform that holds your work hostage.
Side by side comparison
See what you actually get with your own publication vs. writing on Medium.
On Medium
- Followers belong to Medium
- Algorithm controls your reach
- Can't email readers directly
- Locked into their design
With Airlancer
- Your subscribers, forever
- You control distribution
- Direct newsletter access
- Your brand, your domain
Your readers see this. Every. Single. Time. Yuck.
Medium interrupts your readers with popups, pushes them into their app, and promotes their platform - not your work. Your content becomes a vehicle for Medium's growth, not yours.
Pardon the interruption.
We've seen you here before. Let's make things official.
To make Medium work, we log user data...
This appears constantly on Medium articles.
The Art of Writing Online
Writing should feel effortless. No distractions, no complex menus, no hunting for the right button.
Just you and your words, with a clean canvas that gets out of the way and lets your creativity flow.
The same great editor. More power.
Airlancer's editor feels familiar but does more - image galleries, embeds, dynamic blocks, and subscriber personalization. All without the platform lock-in.
- Beautiful, distraction-free writing
- Rich media and embeds
- Autosave - never lose your work
- Clean content exports
Your earnings, your control
Set your own prices. Pay 0% Airlancer platform fees. Stripe fees may apply.
tl;dr: The skinny
Airlancer is best if...
- You want to own your audience and email them directly
- You want your own domain, brand, and design
- You want to build a real publishing business
- You want predictable revenue you control
Medium might be better when...
- You want to tap into Medium's existing audience
- You're okay with Medium controlling everything
- You don't plan to monetize your writing
Serious writers choose independence. Airlancer gives you full ownership of your content, audience, and revenue.
Sound familiar?
From the writing community
I am one of the most-followed authors on Medium, with 158,000 followers. And yet Medium barely shows my articles to anyone anymore. Medium won't give you much 'distribution' unless you're willing to put your articles behind their paywall.
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your writing?
Stop building Medium's platform. Start building yours.