# Blogaly

> Blogaly is a hosted blogging and newsletter platform with paid memberships, 0% platform fees, cookie-free analytics and custom domains. Try it free for 14 days.

Blogaly (https://blogaly.com) is a hosted platform for independent writers and media businesses. Each publication gets a website, email newsletters, free and paid memberships, analytics and a custom domain, run as one managed service: Blogaly runs the servers, security updates and HTTPS certificates. Sites live at <name>.blogaly.uk until you connect your own domain. Customers manage their account at https://dash.blogaly.com.

## Key facts

- Hosted blog with a distraction-free editor, drafts, scheduling and post history
- Email newsletters: send any post to all members, paid members or one tier
- Up to 10 newsletters per publication
- Free and paid membership tiers with monthly and yearly prices
- Free trials, offers and gift subscriptions
- Payments through your own Stripe account with a 0% platform fee
- Custom domains with automatic HTTPS certificates
- Cookie-free analytics: pageviews, visitors, sources, member growth, MRR, open and click rates
- Import members and content from other platforms; export posts and members at any time
- Themes, SEO settings and social previews
- 14-day free trial on every plan, no credit card required

## Pricing (USD per month)

- Starter, $18/month: For new publications finding their voice. Up to 1,000 members; 1 staff seat; 1 newsletter; Free members; Blogaly subdomain.
- Publisher, $35/month: For growing publications ready to earn. Up to 1,000 members; 3 staff seats; 3 newsletters; 3 paid tiers with Stripe; Custom domain with HTTPS.
- Business, $239/month: For media businesses at serious scale. Up to 10,000 members; 15 staff seats; 10 newsletters; 10 paid tiers with Stripe; Custom domain with HTTPS.
- Prices in USD. Members, staff seats, newsletters and paid tiers are plan caps — see each plan for details.

## Product

- [Homepage](https://blogaly.com/): what Blogaly is and who it is for
- [Features](https://blogaly.com/features): everything included in a publication
- [Pricing](https://blogaly.com/pricing): plans, limits and the free trial
- [FAQ](https://blogaly.com/faq): domains, payments, trials, data ownership
- [An editor that gets out of your way](https://blogaly.com/help/write-your-first-post): Write in a calm, distraction-free editor and publish when it reads right. Your theme makes every post look good on any screen.
- [Every post can be a newsletter](https://blogaly.com/help/send-a-newsletter): Publish to your site, send to inboxes, or both at once. Readers sign up on your site and land on your list, not someone else’s.
- [Turn readers into paying members](https://blogaly.com/help/tiers-and-prices): Offer free and paid tiers, then decide what each one can read. Payments go to your own Stripe account, and Blogaly takes no cut.
- [Your name, on your own domain](https://blogaly.com/help/connect-a-custom-domain): Every publication starts on its own blogaly.uk address. Add your domain from the dashboard and HTTPS is issued and renewed for you.
- [See what readers love](https://blogaly.com/help/analytics-overview): Real-time traffic, member growth and newsletter performance in one place, measured without cookies or a consent banner.

## Compare

- [How Blogaly compares](https://blogaly.com/compare): How Blogaly compares with Substack, beehiiv, Medium, WordPress.com and Kit on fees, custom domains, analytics and export, with each source linked.
- [Blogaly vs Substack](https://blogaly.com/compare/substack): Substack is free to start and keeps 10% of paid subscriptions. Blogaly is a flat monthly plan with a 0% platform fee.
- [Blogaly vs beehiiv](https://blogaly.com/compare/beehiiv): Both take 0% of paid subscriptions. beehiiv has a free plan and growth tools; Blogaly is a lower flat price for a blog and newsletter together.
- [Blogaly vs Medium](https://blogaly.com/compare/medium): Medium pays writers a share of member dues and brings its own readers. Blogaly gives you your own site, list and paid members.
- [Blogaly vs WordPress.com](https://blogaly.com/compare/wordpress-com): WordPress.com builds any kind of website, with payment fees of 0–10% by plan. Blogaly is built for publications, with a 0% fee on every plan.
- [Blogaly vs Kit](https://blogaly.com/compare/kit): Kit is email marketing with automations and a 3.5% + 30¢ fee on sales. Blogaly is a full publication with a 0% platform fee.
- [The Substack alternative with 0% fees](https://blogaly.com/alternatives/substack): Substack keeps 10% of every paid subscription. Blogaly charges a flat plan, from $35 a month with paid tiers and your own domain, and takes 0% of what readers pay you.

## Tools

- [Tools](https://blogaly.com/tools): Free calculators for independent writers: see what you keep from paid subscriptions after platform fees, Stripe fees and plan costs.
- [Newsletter earnings calculator](https://blogaly.com/tools/newsletter-earnings-calculator): Enter your paid subscribers and price to see what you keep on Blogaly, Substack, beehiiv and Kit after platform, Stripe and plan fees. Sourced and dated.

## Help: Getting started

- [Create your Blogaly account](https://blogaly.com/help/create-your-account): Sign up with your email address and a password, confirm the address, and you’re ready to create a site.
- [Create your publication](https://blogaly.com/help/create-your-site): Sign up, pick a name and a plan, and your site is live at name.blogaly.uk a few minutes later.
- [A tour of your site’s admin](https://blogaly.com/help/find-your-way-around): Where everything lives in your site’s admin: writing, members, newsletters, settings, and the quickest way to jump between them.
- [Set up your site, step by step](https://blogaly.com/help/set-up-your-site): The settings to change in your first hour: your title, look, menu, time zone, social links, who can sign up, and your newsletter.
- [Write and publish your first post](https://blogaly.com/help/write-your-first-post): Write a post, add a feature image and tags, then publish it to your site, send it by email, or both.
- [Before you launch: a checklist](https://blogaly.com/help/launch-checklist): Everything worth checking before you tell people about your publication, in the order that saves you rework.

## Help: Writing and publishing

- [Using the editor](https://blogaly.com/help/using-the-editor): Write and format posts in Blogaly’s editor: the toolbar, Markdown shortcuts, links, cards, previews and saving.
- [Editor cards](https://blogaly.com/help/cards): Cards add everything that isn’t plain text to a post: images, buttons, callouts, toggles, signup forms, embeds and more.
- [Snippets](https://blogaly.com/help/snippets): Save a card, or a run of cards and text, as a snippet and insert it into any post in two keystrokes.
- [Images, galleries, video and audio](https://blogaly.com/help/images-and-media): Add a feature image, images and galleries, video, audio and downloadable files to your posts, with captions and alt text.
- [Publish now, schedule, or save a draft](https://blogaly.com/help/publishing-and-scheduling): Publish a post to your site, email it to subscribers, schedule it for later, change it after it’s live, or take it down again.
- [Who can read a post: public, members, paid](https://blogaly.com/help/post-access): Choose who can read each post, give everyone a free preview, and set the default for new posts.
- [Organising content with tags](https://blogaly.com/help/organising-content): Group posts by topic with tags, give each topic its own page, and use internal tags to organise things behind the scenes.
- [Pages and your site’s navigation](https://blogaly.com/help/pages-and-navigation): Create standalone pages like About and Contact, and choose what appears in your site’s menus.
- [SEO, social cards and search previews](https://blogaly.com/help/seo-and-sharing): Control how your posts appear in search results and when they’re shared on social media, and what Blogaly does for search engines automatically.
- [Turn on reader comments](https://blogaly.com/help/comments): Let members discuss your posts, choose who can comment, and moderate the conversation from your admin.

## Help: Newsletters and email

- [Set up your newsletters](https://blogaly.com/help/newsletters): Turn on newsletter sending, choose who gets your posts by default, and name, describe and add newsletters.
- [Send a post as an email](https://blogaly.com/help/send-a-newsletter): Choose publish and email, publish only, or email only, pick who gets it, preview and test it, then send now or on a schedule.
- [Email design](https://blogaly.com/help/email-design): Choose what appears in your newsletter emails and how they look: header, title, footer, fonts, colours and buttons.
- [Welcome emails for new members](https://blogaly.com/help/welcome-emails): Send an automatic welcome to everyone who signs up: write it, preview it, send yourself a test and switch it on.
- [How delivery works, and how to keep it good](https://blogaly.com/help/email-delivery): Blogaly sends your newsletters and member emails for you. Here’s what we handle, what you control, and how to stay out of spam folders.
- [Disabled email addresses](https://blogaly.com/help/disabled-emails): When an address bounces or marks your email as spam, Blogaly stops sending to it. How to spot these members and when to re-enable them.

## Help: Members

- [Members: free and paid readers](https://blogaly.com/help/members-overview): Members are readers with an account on your site. What they get, where they come from, and how many each plan includes.
- [The signup and account pop-up](https://blogaly.com/help/signup-and-portal): How readers sign up and manage their account on your site, and how to choose who can join and what the pop-up looks like.
- [Find, filter, label and export members](https://blogaly.com/help/manage-members): Search and filter your members, save filters as views, label people in bulk, edit a member’s details and export your list as a CSV.
- [Import members from a CSV](https://blogaly.com/help/import-members): Bring your subscribers to Blogaly from a spreadsheet or another platform’s export: upload, match the columns, label them and import.

## Help: Paid subscriptions

- [Connect Stripe to take payments](https://blogaly.com/help/connect-stripe): Link your own Stripe account to your site so readers can pay for a subscription. Blogaly takes no cut of what you earn.
- [Tiers and prices](https://blogaly.com/help/tiers-and-prices): Set up what readers pay for: a free tier and one or more paid tiers, each with a monthly and a yearly price.
- [Free trials](https://blogaly.com/help/free-trials): Let readers try a paid tier free for a set number of days before their first payment, on every signup or through an offer link.
- [Offers and discounts](https://blogaly.com/help/offers): Create a discount or a free trial behind a shareable link to win new subscribers, and a retention offer to keep members who are about to cancel.
- [Gift subscriptions](https://blogaly.com/help/gift-subscriptions): Readers can buy a paid membership for someone else, for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months, and send it by email or share the link themselves.
- [Tips and donations](https://blogaly.com/help/tips-donations): Give readers a simple way to support your work with a one-off payment, without subscribing.
- [Payment methods and failed payments](https://blogaly.com/help/payment-methods): How readers pay, how to offer more than cards, and what happens when a renewal payment fails.
- [Members with more than one subscription](https://blogaly.com/help/duplicate-subscription-warning): Why Members may warn about duplicate subscriptions, how to find the readers paying twice, and how to fix it.

## Help: Design and themes

- [Choose and switch themes](https://blogaly.com/help/choose-a-theme): Browse the official themes, preview one and make it your site’s design. Your posts, pages and members stay exactly as they are.
- [Logo, colours, fonts and layout](https://blogaly.com/help/customise-your-design): Use the design editor to add your logo and icon, pick an accent colour and fonts, and adjust your theme’s layout, with a live preview.
- [Upload your own theme (Publisher and Business)](https://blogaly.com/help/upload-a-theme): Upload a custom theme as a zip file, activate it, edit its code in the browser, and fix the errors that stop a theme from working.
- [Add custom code to every page](https://blogaly.com/help/code-injection): Add your own HTML, CSS or scripts to the header or footer of every page of your site, or of a single post, page or tag.

## Help: Domains

- [Your name.blogaly.uk address](https://blogaly.com/help/your-blogaly-address): Every site gets a free address at name.blogaly.uk. How names work, which ones you can’t use, and what happens when you add your own domain.
- [Connect your own domain](https://blogaly.com/help/connect-a-custom-domain): Point a domain you own at your Blogaly site from your dashboard. HTTPS is set up for you.
- [My domain isn’t connecting](https://blogaly.com/help/custom-domain-troubleshooting): What each message on the Custom domain page means, and what to change at your DNS provider to fix it.
- [Change or remove your domain](https://blogaly.com/help/change-or-remove-a-domain): Disconnect your custom domain, or swap it for another one. Your blogaly.uk address keeps working throughout.

## Help: Analytics

- [Your analytics, and why there’s no cookie banner](https://blogaly.com/help/analytics-overview): What each number on the Analytics page means, where it comes from, and how Blogaly counts visitors without cookies.
- [How a single post is doing](https://blogaly.com/help/post-analytics): See how many people read a post, how many opened it as a newsletter, and how many signed up because of it.
- [Opens, clicks and email growth](https://blogaly.com/help/newsletter-analytics): See how your newsletters perform: how many subscribers you have, how many open each send and click a link, and how that changes over time.
- [Where your members come from](https://blogaly.com/help/member-growth): Track how your free and paid membership grows, and find the posts and websites that bring new members in.

## Help: Import and export

- [Import your content](https://blogaly.com/help/import-content): Bring your posts, pages and subscribers to Blogaly from Substack, WordPress, Medium or another publishing platform.
- [Universal import: upload a JSON export](https://blogaly.com/help/universal-import): Bring a whole publication across from another publishing platform by uploading its JSON or zip export.
- [Export your content, members and images](https://blogaly.com/help/export-your-data): Download your posts, settings, members, analytics, theme, redirects and images, for a backup or to move elsewhere.
- [Keep old links working with redirects](https://blogaly.com/help/redirects): Send visitors from old addresses to the right page, and change how your site’s addresses are built with a routes file.

## Help: Settings and team

- [Title, description, language, time zone](https://blogaly.com/help/general-settings): Set your publication’s name, description, time zone, language, search and social details, and choose whether the site is public or private.
- [Invite staff and choose their roles](https://blogaly.com/help/staff-and-roles): Invite writers and editors to your site, pick what each of them can do, and change or remove their access later.
- [Transfer ownership](https://blogaly.com/help/transfer-publication-ownership): Make another Administrator the owner of your site. It takes effect immediately and you become an Administrator.
- [Integrations and API keys](https://blogaly.com/help/integrations): Connect Slack, Unsplash, Zapier, Transistor.fm and FirstPromoter, and create API keys and webhooks for your own tools.
- [FirstPromoter](https://blogaly.com/help/firstpromoter-id): Run a referral or affiliate programme with FirstPromoter: connect your account ID and new signups are credited to whoever referred them.
- [Automations (beta)](https://blogaly.com/help/automations-beta): Send new members a series of emails automatically: a welcome straight away, then more over the following days.
- [Beta features in Labs](https://blogaly.com/help/beta-features): Try new features early from Labs: automations, an enhanced Editor role, the inline excerpt, extra payment methods and navigation icons.

## Help: Plans and billing

- [Plans and what each includes](https://blogaly.com/help/plans-and-limits): Starter, Publisher and Business compared: price, members, staff, newsletters, paid tiers and themes, and what happens when you reach a limit.
- [Your 14-day free trial](https://blogaly.com/help/free-trial): Every new site is free for 14 days, on any plan, without a card. How to keep it afterwards, and what happens if you don’t.
- [Update your card, invoices and plan](https://blogaly.com/help/manage-billing): Manage billing in your dashboard opens a secure Stripe page for your payment method and invoices.
- [Why is my site paused?](https://blogaly.com/help/paused-sites): A site is paused when its subscription isn’t paid. Nothing is deleted. Here’s how to bring it back.
- [Cancel, and take your data with you](https://blogaly.com/help/cancel-your-plan): Export your content and members first, then cancel your subscription. Your site is paused, not deleted, so you can come back.

## Help: Account and security

- [Log in to your dashboard, reset your password](https://blogaly.com/help/dashboard-login): Log in at dash.blogaly.com, reset a forgotten password, and fix the usual sign-in problems.
- [Sign in to your site’s admin](https://blogaly.com/help/admin-login): Sign in at your-name.blogaly.uk/admin, reset a forgotten password, and use the code we email when you sign in on a new device.
- [How Blogaly keeps your site safe](https://blogaly.com/help/security): HTTPS everywhere, staff roles, sign-in codes and nightly off-site backups, plus what to do if an account is compromised.
- [Delete your account](https://blogaly.com/help/delete-your-account): There’s no delete button yet. Contact us and we’ll delete your site and account. Export your data first.
- [Contact us](https://blogaly.com/help/get-help): How to reach a person at Blogaly, and what to include so we can help on the first reply.

## Themes

- [All themes](https://blogaly.com/themes): the 32 themes included with every site
- [Source](https://blogaly.com/themes/source): The default theme: minimal and editorial, for publications, blogs and newsletters.
- [Margin](https://blogaly.com/themes/margin): A classic personal blog with a big cover, a clean feed and light or dark reading.
- [Linen](https://blogaly.com/themes/linen): A calm personal blog with a centred column and a light or dark reading mode.
- [Monogram](https://blogaly.com/themes/monogram): A personal brand theme: a big introduction about you, then your writing.
- [Salon](https://blogaly.com/themes/salon): An editorial blog with a serif voice and a picture-led grid.
- [Dispatch](https://blogaly.com/themes/dispatch): A newsletter-first theme with signup up front and a focused reading column.
- [Courier](https://blogaly.com/themes/courier): A newsletter theme with a featured issue, a clean archive and signup on every page.
- [Morrow](https://blogaly.com/themes/morrow): A newsletter and blog in one, with a featured carousel and a compact feed.
- [Precis](https://blogaly.com/themes/precis): A list-first newsletter theme, built for regular issues and quick scanning.
- [Quire](https://blogaly.com/themes/quire): A newsletter that reads like a personal journal: one column, words first.
- [Broadsheet](https://blogaly.com/themes/broadsheet): A magazine and news theme with front-page sections driven by tags.
- [Folio](https://blogaly.com/themes/folio): A magazine organised around tags, with a bold grid and tag pages as sections.
- [Gilt](https://blogaly.com/themes/gilt): A magazine with a featured lead, a varied grid and generous imagery.
- [Lens](https://blogaly.com/themes/lens): A visual theme for photography and portfolios, with a masonry image grid.
- [Aperture](https://blogaly.com/themes/aperture): A photography and portfolio theme with an edge-to-edge image grid.
- [Cadence](https://blogaly.com/themes/cadence): A podcast theme with episode listings, an audio player and listen-on links.
- [Studio](https://blogaly.com/themes/studio): A podcast theme with a show hero, an episode list and listen-on links.
- [Primer](https://blogaly.com/themes/primer): A documentation and knowledge base theme with collections, search and a contents list.
- [Nave](https://blogaly.com/themes/nave): A church theme for service times, sermons, events, ministries and giving.
- [Basilica](https://blogaly.com/themes/basilica): A Catholic parish, cathedral or diocese theme with Mass times, sacraments and homilies.
- [Iconostasis](https://blogaly.com/themes/iconostasis): An Orthodox church theme with a feast-day banner, services and arched icon frames.
- [Chapel](https://blogaly.com/themes/chapel): A village parish theme that reads like an almanac, with this week’s services and notices.
- [Assembly](https://blogaly.com/themes/assembly): A bold, cinematic theme for modern churches with one or many campuses.
- [Covenant](https://blogaly.com/themes/covenant): A quiet, text-first theme for Reformed, Presbyterian and Lutheran congregations.
- [Fellowship](https://blogaly.com/themes/fellowship): A warm, friendly theme for community churches, church plants and youth churches.
- [Mise](https://blogaly.com/themes/mise): A restaurant theme with reservations up front and a menu set like a printed card.
- [Noir](https://blogaly.com/themes/noir): A dark, cinematic tasting-menu theme with the courses as a timeline.
- [Bistro](https://blogaly.com/themes/bistro): A bistro theme with today’s specials on a chalkboard and a two-column menu.
- [Trattoria](https://blogaly.com/themes/trattoria): An Italian family restaurant theme with the family story, menu sections and a gallery.
- [Counter](https://blogaly.com/themes/counter): A theme for casual counter spots: a huge wordmark, Order online and the menu in strips.
- [Orchard](https://blogaly.com/themes/orchard): A farm-to-table theme with a seasonal menu, producers and a harvest letter.
- [Cafe](https://blogaly.com/themes/cafe): A theme for cafés and bakeries with today’s hours, a menu board and Fresh today tiles.

## Optional

- [Full text of the site and help center](https://blogaly.com/llms-full.txt)
- [Changelog](https://blogaly.com/changelog)
- [Security contact](https://blogaly.com/.well-known/security.txt): security@blogaly.com