vocal.media

Vocal

Who runs Vocal, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online publishing platform alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Medium

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Vocal

Vocal vocal.media

Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Vocal tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

8 of the 11 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found
US company
4 tools
  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

  • Privacy-friendly analytics

    Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Vocal

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Vocal, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than VocalNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Medium medium.com Top 1K English

    online publishing platform

    Compare Medium with Vocal →
  2. 02
    Wattpad wattpad.com Top 1K English 3 trackers

    Wattpad - Stories to obsess over

    Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story

    Compare Wattpad with Vocal →
  3. 03
    HubPages hubpages.com Top 10K

    user-generated content, revenue-sharing website founded in 2006

    Compare HubPages with Vocal →
  4. 04
    Substack substack.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Substack

    Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.

    Compare Substack with Vocal →
  5. 05
    note note.com Top 1K Japanese 1 tracker

    note ――つくる、つながる、とどける。

    クリエイターが文章やマンガ、写真、音声を投稿することができ、ユーザーはそのコンテンツを楽しんで応援できるメディアプラットフォームです。だれもが創作を楽しんで続けられるよう、安心できる雰囲気や、多様性を大切にしています。

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  6. 06
    Jianshu jianshu.com

    internet company

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  7. 07
    YouTube youtube.com Top 100 English No trackers

    YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

    Compare YouTube with Vocal →
  8. 08
    Fanvue fanvue.com English 5 trackers

    Fanvue

    The creator subscription platform for the future. Take home 80% of your earnings from day 1. Earn from your fanbase faster with the No1 AI monetisation platform for creators.

    Compare Fanvue with Vocal →
  9. 09
    Quotev quotev.com No trackers

    Quotev

    Read or write a story, book, quiz, survey, or poll. Follow others who share your interests

    Compare Quotev with Vocal →
  10. 10
    Trustpilot trustpilot.com Top 1K

    Danish freemium review website

    Compare Trustpilot with Vocal →
  11. 11
    SmartCustomer sitejabber.com English 1 tracker

    Find Real Business Reviews & Ratings | SmartCustomer

    SmartCustomer - your source for ratings and reviews. Find the truth about 130K+ businesses with real insights from 200M+ customers.

    Compare SmartCustomer with Vocal →
  12. 12
    Patreon patreon.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Where Creator Communities Thrive — Patreon

    Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!

    Compare Patreon with Vocal →
  13. 13
    match.com Top 10K English

    dating website

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  14. 14
    NewsBreak newsbreak.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts

    NewsBreak is the best local source for news, videos, and information on safety, accidents, sports, business, celebrity updates, stock market trends, and more.

    Compare NewsBreak with Vocal →
  15. 15
    Ghost ghost.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform

    Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

    Compare Ghost with Vocal →
  16. 16
    Newgrounds newgrounds.com Top 10K

    American entertainment and social media website

    Compare Newgrounds with Vocal →
  17. 17
    Freelancer freelancer.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Hire Freelancers & Find Freelance Jobs Online | Freelancer

    Access the world's largest cloud workforce. 25.9+ million jobs completed across 3400+ skills. Post your job free, compare quotes, and hire top talent today.

    Compare Freelancer with Vocal →
  18. 18
    Behance behance.net Top 1K

    design website

    Compare Behance with Vocal →
  19. 19
    Brainly brainly.com

    Polish educational technology company

    Compare Brainly with Vocal →
  20. 20
    Guru.com guru.com

    freelancing site

    Compare Guru.com with Vocal →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Vocal’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Vocal uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Vocal adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 14 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,195
Vector
384-d
Query
28 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Vocal’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js header x-powered-by: Next.js
  • React implied by Next.js (header x-powered-by: Next.js)
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js
Analytics
  • Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
  • Heap page source: cdn.heapanalytics.com
Tag managers
Marketing automation
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.com include:datadriven…
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=31be56731c44a39a2e9cdea473b6b036be3f8e26edecb07ec…
CDN
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.com include:datadriven…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)