Your writing deserves its own home on the internet. Not a rented room on Medium.
Build your publication around your own domain, your design, and direct access to readers. Keep your content and audience together in a place you control.
Everything Medium won't give you.
Build your publication around your own brand and a direct connection to readers. Publish on your site and send newsletters to your list.
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.
Welcome readers as free members.
Let readers create free accounts on your site. Manage members alongside subscribers and share members-only posts on eligible plans.
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 stay out of the way. 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
tl;dr: The skinny
Airlancer is best if...
- You want to own your audience and email them directly
- You want your own domain and your own brand
- You want to build a real publishing business
- You want to grow a direct relationship with your readers
Medium might be better when...
- You want to tap into Medium's existing audience
- You're okay with Medium controlling everything
- You prefer publishing within an existing platform
Serious writers choose independence. You keep the content and the audience.
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.
Ready to own
your writing?
Stop building Medium's platform. Start building yours.