Your work
belongs to you.
The best publishing platform, period. Beautiful editor. Email newsletters. Paid subscriptions with 0% revenue cut. Also the only one that's genuinely secure, not because of a policy, but because of how we built it.
Charged at signup · 30-day money-back guarantee · Export everything, anytime
Most publishing platforms take a cut of everything you earn.
forme a better arrangement.
See what you'd keep on forme.
Most publishers recover their first year of forme costs in the first month. Enter your numbers.
Forme annual costEverything you need. Nothing working against you.
An editor built to disappear.
Write without fighting the interface. The editor handles rich content, images, pull quotes, video, code, and free stock photos from Unsplash and Pexels and GIFs from Klipy — all searchable from inside the editor without getting in the way. Newsletters go out on your schedule, to the people you choose, with your brand on every pixel. No Forme logo anywhere.
Yours in every direction.
Your subscriber list exports as a CSV whenever you want it. Your content exports in open formats. Your revenue lands directly in your bank account. Your custom domain is yours whether you stay or go. We designed Forme to be easy to leave. That's what makes it worth staying.
We built it so we can't read your drafts.
When you encrypt a draft, it's locked before it leaves your browser. We receive a scrambled blob we can't open. Your subscriber payment relationships run through your own Stripe account, not ours. Not because of a policy. Because of how the math works.
Everything you'd expect, and then some.
If you're coming from Substack, Ghost, Beehiiv, or WordPress, everything you relied on is here. These are the basics. The security architecture is what makes Forme different.
Headers, bold, italic, lists, links, dividers, pull quotes, code blocks, embeds. Full Tiptap-based editor.
Search Unsplash and Pexels for free photos, Klipy for GIFs — directly inside the editor.
Every post can go out as a newsletter. Your brand, your domain, delivered via Resend.
Set up paid tiers via your own Stripe account. Forme takes 0% of subscription revenue.
Your domain, fully propagated in under 2 minutes. Yours whether you stay or leave.
Write now, publish later. Set a date and time per post.
Add, remove, search, filter, and export your full subscriber list as CSV anytime.
Post open rates, click rates, subscriber growth. Updated daily.
Organize posts into tags and numbered series. Public-facing tag and series pages auto-generated.
One-click import from Substack, Ghost, Beehiiv, and WordPress. Posts and subscribers.
Auto-generated RSS feed and sitemap.xml for every publication.
Your posts, subscribers, and data in open formats. No data hostage.
Write without the interface getting in the way.
Rich content, clean layout, your brand everywhere. Zero forme logos in your publication.
Also the only genuinely secure publishing platform.
Every other publishing platform stores your drafts in plain text.forme doesn't. Your drafts are encrypted before they leave your browser, using a key that lives on your device and nowhere else.
For most publishers, this is peace of mind. For some, it's more important than that. We built the architecture for everyone, because security that only works for people who can prove they need it isn't security at all.
See the full technical breakdown →Encryption key generated in your browser, stored locally. We don't have it. We couldn't open your drafts even if asked.
We store email addresses and subscription status. No payment data, location, reading history, or behavioral tracking.
Anyone can submit a tip from any browser, no account, no downloads, no Tor. It's encrypted before it leaves their device.
All image metadata stripped client-side before upload. GPS coordinates, device model, serial numbers, gone.
A cryptographically signed transparency statement. If we're silenced, the signature stops. Verifiable by anyone.
Publishing platforms were becoming landlords.
Every platform that starts as a tool eventually becomes a toll booth. Substack takes 10% of everything you earn — permanently. Ghost requires a server. WordPress requires a developer. Beehiiv injects ads into your emails. The incentives were all wrong.
We built Forme because we think the best publishing platform should work for you, not extract from you. Flat pricing. Zero revenue cut. Security architecture that means we literally cannot read your drafts. Your subscriber list exports the moment you want it. We designed Forme to be easy to leave — that's what makes it worth staying.
Forme is an independent company, Wyoming-registered, with no venture capital and no growth-at-all-costs mandate. We work for publishers, not advertisers.
Read the full story →Flat. Forever. No revenue cut, no subscriber tiers, no gotchas.
Your subscriber revenue goes directly to your Stripe account. We see none of it.
Full money-back, no questions. Migrate in, send real newsletters to real subscribers, see real results — then decide.
Everything you're used to. And then some.
Forme has the complete publishing stack. We didn't cut corners to build the security architecture — we built both.
Everything you need. Nothing working against you.
| Forme | Substack | Ghost | Beehiiv | WordPress | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly platform cost | $19 | $0 | $15–199 | $0–109 | $4–45 |
| Revenue cut | 0% | 10% | 0% | 0% | 2–10% |
| Newsletter (real, not post alerts) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Subscribe without account | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Custom design | ✓ | Limited | ✓ | Limited | ✓ |
| Free stock photos + GIFs | ✓ Unsplash, Pexels, Klipy | ✗ Upload only | ✓ Upload or external link | ✓ Unsplash integrated | ✗ Plugins required |
| Draft encryption | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Subscriber data ownership | ✓ | Limited | ✓ | Limited | Limited |
| Secure tip line | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Verified click analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ Scale plan only ($149/mo) | ✗ |
| No ad injection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Publisher-controlled ad channels | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ Boost only, 20% cut | ⚠ via plugins |
| Zero maintenance | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Export everything, anytime | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Substack's 10% cut means a publisher earning $5,000/month pays more in platform fees than a forme team subscription. That's not a comparison, it's a different business model.
Webhooks, RSS, and public API for anything custom.
We never put ads in your emails without your approval.
Beehiiv's Boost network injects third-party newsletter promotions into subscriber emails automatically. You don't approve the content. You don't control the timing. You do get a 20% cut of whatever Beehiiv decides to show your readers. That's not our model. It never will be.
You decide. Or you don't. Both are fine.Three publisher-controlled channels, if you want them.
You list yourself. You approve every deal. You reject anything off-brand. Forme takes 7% as a marketplace fee. You keep 93%.
Connect your own EthicalAds or Carbon Ads account. Forme takes 0%. No reader tracking. No behavioral targeting. Readers see ads relevant to what they're reading, not who they are.
Paste your own ad network code. Forme takes 0%. We display an honest warning modal so your readers know. You opt in knowing that.
Every channel requires explicit activation. Forme never enables ads by default.
Two plans. No revenue cut. No surprises.
We don't have a free tier. $19/month means we work for you, not advertisers.
For independent publishers.
- ✓Unlimited posts and newsletters
- ✓Unlimited subscribers
- ✓Paid subscriptions, 0% fee
- ✓Custom domain
- ✓Draft encryption
- ✓secure tip line
- ✓Safety statement page
- ✓Full data export, always
For 2–8 person editorial teams.
- ✓Everything in Journalist
- ✓Up to 8 team members
- ✓Editorial roles & permissions
- ✓Draft review workflow
- ✓Safety check-in
- ✓Shamir key distribution
- ✓Team analytics
- ✓Priority migration support
Migrate your publication in. Send newsletters to your real subscribers. Check the analytics. If Forme isn't clearly worth it within 30 days, we refund every cent — no questions, no conditions.
30-day money-back guarantee · Charged at signup · Cancel anytime · Export everything
Move in 20 minutes.
We've handled the hard parts.
We know what's stopping you. The posts. The subscribers. The SEO. The readers who'll notice if something breaks. We've thought through every step.
For publications with more than 1,000 subscribers, our team handles the full migration. Email us before you start.
Posts, subscribers, and SEO intact. Average migration: 20 minutes.
Honest answers.
Ready to own your publishing?
$19/month. 30-day money-back guarantee. Move an existing publication or start fresh. Either way, everything you build is yours.
Charged at signup · 30-day money-back guarantee · Cancel anytime · Export everything