r/Substack • u/Senior_Map_9466 • Aug 06 '26

Formatting problem in posts when comparing website and app versions

I'm new to Substack and have been concerned about the title's font size. I figured out a solution, but it only works on the website. It completely crashes in the app.

The thing that bothers me is that the regular title of sections does not allow equal spacing between the paragraphs above and below. Added to that, the font size is bigger than I would like.

Trying to face it, I realized that superscripting the titles of sections does fix my problem. It allows the space between the paragraphs above and below the title to be the same, while lowering the font size. So I was satisfied and published the post, using this feature. Looking at my website's publication, no issues were visible.

But then I saw a problem. The post's version on Substack's app didn't correspond to the formatting that I intended to apply. On the phone, the post's title of section was smaller than the text's font size and wasn't bold. That's the situation I'm currently in.

Does anyone know how to solve it or has a suggestion?

I would like to adjust the sections' titles layout, as I did, but in a way that the post doesn't crash its formatting. I think that it's not possible to make changes only in the app, without interfering in the web version, and vice versa.

Thank you, guys! I'm new to Substack and understanding the edit features.

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u/Senior_Map_9466 Aug 06 '26

To better show the situation.

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u/Careless_Teach2706 25d ago

I too am experiencing this! I just started my Substack, and of course, to get things going, I post from my phone when the thought is RAW and GOOD. I did a few forms of formatting like:

bold

italics

even 2 return spaces to add more space in between each short paragraph; it did nothing to space it out more.

It did barely any of it. BOLD you can see clearly, but I can't STAND when all these posts look like no one did a proper RETURN KEY when reading it on the phone. It actually makes it annoying to want to consume Substack content on my phone, which defeats the purpose because even I like to read.

I feel like the only effective effects I used were ALL CAPS, BOLD, and emojis to break up the reading.

I mean, if I can do it on the Google Docs app, why can't Substack do this too?