Medium gives you distribution. Pagecord gives you a home.
Medium can help strangers find your writing, and that can matter. But the reader experience belongs to Medium: paywalls, popups, app prompts, recommendation widgets, and a domain that is not yours.
Pagecord is for writers who would rather have a small place of their own. Anyone can read your posts without making an account, hitting a paywall, or being pulled off into someone else's feed.
Use your own web address, write in the editor or just send an email, and download everything you've written whenever you want. Classic is free forever, with 20 free uploads included. Premium is $39/year.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Pagecord | Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Rich text editor | ✅ | ✅ |
| Email newsletters | ✅ Weekly digest or per-post delivery |
✅ |
| Tags and topics | ✅ | ✅ |
| Social links | ✅ | ✅ |
| Search your posts | ✅ | ✅ |
| No paywall for readers | ✅ | ❌ (3 free articles/month) |
| No popups | ✅ | ❌ |
| Own your domain | ✅ | ❌ |
| Multiple blogs from one account (Premium includes 2) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Create blog posts by sending an email | ✅ | ❌ |
| Colour themes and fonts | ✅ | ❌ |
| Custom CSS | ✅ | ❌ |
| Custom code | ✅ Your own HTML in the head and body of every page |
❌ |
| Standalone pages (About, Now, Contact, etc.) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Custom home pages | ✅ | ❌ |
| Full site HTML export | ✅ | ❌ |
| Privacy-respecting analytics | ✅ | ❌ |
| Comments | ✅ No reader account needed |
✅ (Medium account required) |
| Reply by email | ✅ | ❌ |
| Embeddable contact form | ✅ | ❌ |
| Open source | ✅ | ❌ |
| API | ✅ | ❌ |
| Free version | ✅ | ❌ |
| Premium version | $39/year | $60/year (as reader) |
Bring your posts with you
Medium lets you download an archive of everything you've published. Send it over and we'll bring your posts across, so years of writing don't stay locked behind someone else's paywall.
Start a free blog first and have a proper look around. Keep your old site live as long as you like – nothing has to move until you're happy with what you see. When you're ready, email us and we'll take it from there. Here's how importing works.