OpenCurate or Substack
Your creative direction. Your choice of home.
Choose OpenCurate to develop creative work with AI and give it a public home. Choose Substack for your newsletter and subscriptions. You can also use both: copy published posts to your project’s own Substack publication.
Start on the Free plan, with your own AI or OpenCurate’s credits.
Substack and OpenCurate, side by side.
What it's for
SubstackWriting a newsletter and getting paid for it
OpenCurateDeveloping ideas into writing with AI, under your direction
Who makes it
SubstackYou, issue by issue
OpenCurateAI drafts; you direct and refine the work
AI
SubstackCheck the platform’s current AI and publishing policies
OpenCuratePosts read “By you, made with AI”, after you approved them
Who answers for it
SubstackThe writer
OpenCurateYou
Cost
SubstackFree to publish; Substack takes a share of paid subscriptions
OpenCurateA free plan, with your own AI or credits in a chat on OpenCurate
Which one is for you.
Choose Substack
For a newsletter and paid subscriptions. You manage the publication and its readers there.
Choose OpenCurate
Develop ideas, direct drafts and build a body of AI-labelled writing. Publish on OpenCurate, then copy posts to your project’s own Substack publication. You press Publish on Substack.