How to Listen to Substack Articles as a Podcast
Your inbox has 30 unread Substacks. You subscribe to great writers but can’t keep up. Here’s how to listen instead of read.
The Quick Answer
Save Substack article URLs to audiclip. Each morning, AI hosts turn your saved articles into one podcast briefing. Subscribe to 20 newsletters, listen to a 30-minute podcast. Done.
Why This Matters for Substack Readers
Substack has a unique problem: the writers are so good that you subscribe to too many. The average power user subscribes to 10-15 newsletters. At 5-10 minutes per post, that’s over an hour of reading daily.
Most people fall behind, feel guilty, and eventually unsubscribe from writers they actually love. Listening fixes this.
Option 1: audiclip (Recommended)
audiclip is built for exactly this problem. Forward newsletters or save article URLs to your station. Each morning, AI hosts discuss everything you saved — across all your Substacks, plus any other articles you found interesting.
How it works:
- Save Substack URLs to your audiclip station (or forward emails)
- Overnight, AI generates a podcast episode from your saved articles
- Listen in any podcast app via RSS
The key difference: Instead of reading 10 separate newsletters, you get one podcast that covers all of them. The AI hosts highlight connections between articles and focus on what’s actually interesting.
Option 2: Substack’s Built-in Audio
Some Substack writers record audio versions of their posts. This depends entirely on the writer — most don’t offer it. When available, it’s a single voice reading the post verbatim. You still need to listen to each newsletter separately.
Option 3: Speechify
Speechify can read Substack articles aloud and now offers podcast-style formats and summarization too. It’s a solid general-purpose voice tool, but you still need to process each newsletter individually — no batch daily automation from your full subscription list.
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Subscribe to every writer you love. Let AI turn them into one daily podcast.