Distribute
Newsletters
Send articles to your subscribers by email, with deliverability handled for you.
Any article you publish can also go to your subscribers by email. Paragraph handles deliverability for you: sender reputation, infrastructure, and monitoring are managed on our end.
Send an article by email
Email delivery is a choice you make when you publish. In Review & publish, turn on newsletter delivery and you'll see how many subscribers will receive it.
- Choose All newsletter subscribers, or a subscriber segment for a narrower audience. If a saved segment is no longer available, Paragraph blocks the send instead of falling back to everyone.
- Choose Preview to read the email at desktop or mobile width, or Send test to send a copy to your account email. Neither reaches subscribers.
- Turn off Publish online for an email-only send that doesn't appear on your website. Through the MCP server or API, set
publishOnline: false.
If you schedule the article, the email goes out when it goes live.
Emails from a Playbook
A Playbook's article publishes to your website only. To email your subscribers about a Changelog run, turn on Newsletter in its settings. A run about a major release then makes an email from its article, as a separate piece with its own subject, preview text, and time. Smaller updates go out without one. Its suggested time is the article's launch, at least 24 hours after your last email. It goes to your active subscribers only when you approve it, and you can skip it without skipping the article. See Changelog.
The recipient count includes only active subscribers. Readers who unsubscribed or opted out of email aren't counted.
Your plan includes a number of emails a month, one per subscriber who gets a send. An email that needs more than you have left waits until you upgrade or the month resets. See Plans and credits.
Grow your subscribers
Your website includes subscribe prompts, so readers can sign up from any article. To bring an existing list, import a CSV from Substack or anywhere else. See Subscribers.
See how sends perform
The Newsletter tab in Analytics shows delivery rate and opens for each send.