Everything you need to run a small editorial team
Vellum is designed as one cohesive product, not a bundle of half-built apps. Here's what comes in the box.
A distraction-free editor that gets out of the way when you're drafting and gets thorough when you're polishing. Support for Markdown, rich text, and structured fields like pull quotes, callouts, and footnotes. Autosave on every keystroke. Version history that lets you compare any two drafts side by side.
Inline comments, suggested edits, and review tracks for different kinds of feedback (fact-check, line edit, sensitivity review). Assignable to specific reviewers with deadlines. A complete audit trail of who said what, when, and what the author did about it.
Schedule a piece to publish at a precise moment, or queue it for the next available slot in your editorial calendar. Vellum's scheduler respects holidays, time zones, and the fact that nobody should be publishing on Sunday morning unless they really mean to.
One canonical version of each piece, distributed to your website, newsletter, RSS, and (optionally) social. Direct publishing integrations for the most common static-site generators (Hugo, Jekyll, Eleventy, Astro), most WordPress installs, and a clean REST API for everything else.
Built-in newsletter sending that doesn't require a separate Mailchimp account. Audience segmentation, double opt-in, deliverability monitoring, and templates that look like email rather than slick marketing collateral. Free for the first 2,000 subscribers.
The metrics that matter for editorial decisions: dwell time, scroll depth, finish rate, return rate, and reader cohorts. No third-party tracking, no Google Analytics, no cookies-by-default. Self-hosted if your publication's audience is sensitive about privacy.
Full-text search across every draft, comment, and published piece. Tagging, taxonomies, and series support. Permanent URLs that you can rely on for the lifetime of your publication.
Role-based access control with sensible defaults: authors, editors, copy-editors, and admins. SSO via Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Okta on the Business plan. Per-piece permissions for sensitive stories.
Export everything at any time, in clean formats. Your content is yours. There's no platform lock-in, no proprietary file format, no "premium export" fee. You can self-host Vellum on your own infrastructure if you want to.