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The newsletter platform for serious writers

Your ideas deserve a beautiful, permanent home.

DraftDesk gives you a professional newsletter, a personal website, and an audience — all in one place. No code. No design degree. Just your words, published with intention.

Free forever. Paid plans from $9/mo. Cancel any time.
280,000 writers & counting
280K
Active writers
14M
Readers every month
$2.4M
Paid to writers (2025)
98%
Deliverability rate

Start with a template. Make it yours.

Professional designs built for readability. No design tools required.

Editorial
Best for: news & analysis
Modern
Best for: tech & product
Minimal
Best for: personal & essays
Visual
Best for: photography & art

Everything you need to build a sustainable writing practice.

Built by writers, for writers. No unnecessary complexity.

01

Write without distraction

A clean, focused editor with Markdown support, auto-save, and version history. Your drafts are always safe.

02

Grow your audience

Referral programs, social sharing cards, and a public archive page get you discovered by the readers you deserve.

03

Monetize when you’re ready

Paid subscriptions, one-off digital products, and sponsorship tools. Keep 95% of revenue — always.

04

Own your list forever

Export your subscriber list any time, in any format. No lock-in. Your audience belongs to you, not to us.

05

Understand your readers

Open rates, click maps, subscriber growth charts, and revenue dashboards — all in one clear interface.

06

98% deliverability

Custom domain sending, dedicated IPs, and automatic list hygiene keep your emails out of spam folders.

Know exactly what’s working.

Real insight, no data science degree needed.

Last 30 days — sample dashboard
Open rate
52.4%
Click-through
18.1%
New subscribers
+1,247
Revenue
$3,840

Writers who found their audience on DraftDesk

“I went from 0 to 12,000 subscribers in 8 months. DraftDesk’s referral tools and clean design did half the work for me.”
Priya Anand
The Friday Brief
12,400 subscribers
“I migrated from another platform and my open rates jumped 14 points in the first month. The deliverability is genuinely different.”
Marcus Webb
Deep Reads
8,100 subscribers
“The writing experience feels like it was designed for people who actually care about words. It gets out of the way and lets you think.”
Sofia Keller
Notes on Making
5,800 subscribers
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