AngryPages vs. Medium

AngryPages: Any famous people use them? We publish fast!

Medium: It's good, but hard to find great content. Very little imagery, pretty dull.

AngryPages: An archive home with day pages, years, names, proof, and layered access.

Medium: Open article distribution inside Medium's network.

AngryPages: Your name, your product, your price.

Medium: Your words, their network, their paywall, their pool.

AngryPages: Built to hold a living record across years.

Medium: Great for individual articles. Weak as a layered archive with private and paid tiers.

AngryPages: Search by name, year, quote, and proof entry point.

Medium: Tag browsing and network discovery. Paywalled stories index poorly, so search rarely brings readers back to old work.

AngryPages: Public and paid layers stay inside one product you control.

Medium: A paywall exists, but you don't own it, price it, or decide who gets past it.

AngryPages: Someone buys your book at the price you set. You keep 80% of net.

Medium: You get a share of a member pool based on how long paying members read. No sale, no price, no invoice.

AngryPages: Publishing costs $10 and no membership is required to earn.

Medium: You must be a paying member yourself to join the Partner Program and put work behind the paywall.

AngryPages: Press, letters, names, and artifacts sit beside the work.

Medium: Possible inside an article, not a native archive layer.

AngryPages: Names are a native browse surface.

Medium: Names live inside article text, with no names system behind them.

AngryPages: Permanent address, backups, editorial record.

Medium: The article stays up, but distribution, curation rules, and the payout formula have all changed repeatedly, and old work earns what the current formula says it earns.

AngryPages: $8,000 to you after fees, from a price you set.

Medium: No equivalent.

There is no gross sale to split — earnings come from member read time, and a good month for a consistent writer is measured in hundreds, not thousands.

AngryPages: Archive home first.

Medium: Open-distribution lane. Publish an excerpt there, sell the book here.

Free to publish. Membership is $5/month or $50/year; the Friend of Medium tier is $15/month or $150/year and pays writers roughly four times as much per read.

Partner Program earnings come from that member pool. Checked July 27, 2026. Source.