Free to publish. 5% on paid subscriptions, capped at $99 a month. Built in Canada.
The full publishing stack — drafting, sending, paid subscriptions, archive, custom domain — without the US data exposure, and without paying for it before you earn from it.
Your subscriber list is yours. Export it to CSV whenever you want, no friction. You can leave for any platform in a day. We don't think you should have to.
Servers in Canada, under Canadian law (PIPEDA, CASL). GDPR-compliant for European readers via Canada's EU adequacy decision. Outside the US CLOUD Act.
Versioning, scheduling, multi-author drafts, paywalls mid-article rather than only whole-post, the editorial workflow most newsletter tools don't bother with.
English and French interfaces. Useful in Quebec, Acadia, and Ottawa — and treated as a first-class feature, not an afterthought translation.
Free while you're publishing for free. 5% on paid subscription revenue, capped at $99 a month — even at your largest. See the full math.
Privacy-respecting analytics with no third-party trackers, no cookies, no IPs stored. You see what you need; your readers stay unsurveilled.
Substack is a US company. So is Beehiiv. So is Mailchimp. For some writers that's fine. For Canadian journalists, investigative reporters, health writers, lawyers, and anyone whose audience trusts them with sensitive subjects, it's a problem worth solving.
Factsheet Six is the same kind of product — without the American jurisdiction.
| Factsheet Six | Substack | Beehiiv | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where your readers' data lives | Canada | United States | United States |
| Subscriber list export | One-click CSV | Manual, with friction | CSV |
| Take rate on paid subs | 5%, capped at $99/mo | 10%, no cap | 0% |
| Cost to publish a free newsletter | $0, no list-size limit | $0, no list-size limit | $0 up to 2,500; $43+/mo after |
| Bilingual EN / FR-CA | Yes | No | No |
You can already find newsletters on Factsheet Six by topic, author, or by browsing the directory.
There's no waitlist. Start a newsletter, write a post, turn on paid subscriptions whenever you're ready.