beehiiv or Typoza when your writing goes out by email
Worth reading if you are torn between growing a mailing list and building a site that also sends email.
Free to start, no card. You can export your posts at any time, on every plan.
How a list grows on beehiiv
- Recommendations from other newsletters
- Boosts: paying other newsletters to recommend yours
- A referral programme that rewards readers
- An ad network that pays you for placements
How a site grows on Typoza
- Search engines, since every post is its own page
- Feeds, links, and readers sharing posts
- A directory of workspaces, if you opt in
- Subscribers who signed up on your site
Segments, automations, a referral programme, recommendations between newsletters, boosts, an ad network, paid subscriptions: beehiiv puts a whole newsletter business in one product. If the mailing list is what you are building, beehiiv is built for you.
Typoza starts from the site. Each post is a page with its own address, a title and description for search engines, and a place in the feeds. The Letter then emails it to your subscribers, one post at a time or as a daily or weekly digest.
The Letter covers what a site needs from email: a sign-up form, segments, messages you write between posts, and a list you can import and export. It has no automations, no growth tools and no paid subscriptions.
Point by point
| What we compare | Typoza | beehiiv |
|---|---|---|
| What you are building | A site; email goes out when you publish. | A newsletter, with a website around it. |
| Free plan | A small subscriber cap, enough to try the Letter. | Many times more subscribers, and no paid subscriptions. |
| Paid subscriptions | None. | Built in on the paid plans. |
| Growth tools | None. Readers come from search, feeds, links and an opt-in directory. | Referrals, recommendations, boosts and an ad network. |
| Sending | Each post or a digest, messages written by hand, and segments. | Automations, sequences and segments. |
| Measuring | What was sent, what bounced, and complaints; opens are not tracked. | Opens, clicks and subscriber growth. |
| Search engines | Title, description and canonical address per post, structured data, sitemap. | A web page for each post, alongside the email. |
| Moving your list | Export to CSV, JSON or Excel, with each subscriber's consent date. | Exports of subscribers and posts. |
What beehiiv does better
Every comparison has this section, and it is never empty. We lose on these points:
- A far bigger free plan, counted in subscribers. Ours is sized for trying the Letter, beehiiv's for running a newsletter. If you are starting a list for free, that alone decides it.
- Paid subscriptions. Typoza has none, so this is something we do not do at all.
- Growth tools: referrals, recommendations between newsletters, boosts. Typoza has no equivalent.
- Automations. Welcome sequences and triggered emails are part of beehiiv; a Typoza email goes out when you publish, or when you write one by hand.
- Numbers on every send: opens, clicks, growth over time. Typoza counts what was sent, what bounced and the complaints, and leaves opens alone because tracking them takes a pixel in every email.
Moving from beehiiv
Your subscriber list moves in one file. You copy the posts across by hand, because our importer reads only the WordPress export file.
What comes across
- Your subscribers. Export them from beehiiv as a CSV, then import the file into Typoza after confirming that each person agreed to your emails. The list has to fit within your plan's subscriber cap.
- Each post's text, copied from its web page with headings, lists, quotes and links.
- Your domain, served by Typoza from the Collective plan, with its certificate.
- Your rhythm. Subscribers choose each post or a digest, and you can still write to them between posts.
What does not
- Paid subscriptions. If readers pay you today, that income stops the day you move.
- Referrals, recommendations, boosts and ad network income.
- Automations and sequences. On Typoza, email goes out when you publish or when you send a message yourself.
- Your open and click history, which stays in beehiiv.
- Images, which you upload again.
So, which one?
Pick beehiiv if…
beehiiv is the right call when the list is the business: referrals, automations, an ad network and paid subscriptions, on top of a generous free start.
Pick Typoza if…
Typoza is the right call when the site comes first: posts that strangers find through search, with email as the way readers keep up.
Questions people ask next
Which has the better free plan?
beehiiv's, if you count subscribers: it holds many times more than ours. Our free plan is for trying Typoza. If a free newsletter is the plan, start on beehiiv.
Does Typoza have paid subscriptions?
No. There are no paid subscriptions and no members-only posts. beehiiv has paid subscriptions built in, so if that is how you earn, choose beehiiv.
Does Typoza help my posts rank?
Only so far: ranking depends on what you write and who links to it, and no tool can promise it. Typoza gives each post what search engines read: a title and description, structured data, a canonical address, a sitemap entry and a share image.
How far does Typoza's newsletter go?
The Letter has a sign-up form on your site, posts by email or in a digest, segments, and messages you write between posts. It stops there: no automations, and nothing readers pay for.
Can I keep beehiiv for the list and publish on Typoza?
Yes. Keep the list on beehiiv, publish the full post on Typoza, and set each post's canonical address to the copy you want search engines to rank. You pay for two tools and pick one address as the real one.
The post you keep putting off
Write its first paragraph today. The post stays a draft until you publish it, and no reader sees it before then.
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