theStacc publishes articles, Google Business posts and social for local businesses, from $99 a month. Blogged hosts one blog and writes it, from $99.
theStacc is three products sold separately: blog articles, Google Business Profile posts and social, aimed at local and multi-location businesses. Its blog module starts at the same price as Blogged for the same thirty articles and is cheaper at higher volumes. Blogged does one channel and owns it, hosting the blog rather than publishing into a CMS you run, and reporting on what a post converted. theStacc hosts nothing below its $1,299 a month managed tier. Blogged starts at $99 per month per Project.
Written by the Blogged team. theStacc details were checked against public pages on September 2026 at thestacc.com. Products change, so verify anything that decides your purchase.
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| Capability | Blogged | theStacc |
|---|---|---|
| Writes and publishes blog articles | Yes Autopilot drafts posts under approved Content Directions, 30 to 90 a month by plan. | Yes The Blog SEO module researches, writes, scores and publishes 30, 50 or 80 articles a month by rung. |
| Posts to Google Business Profile | No Blogged publishes to a blog and has no local search or Maps surface at all. | Yes Around fifteen planned posts a month plus AI review replies published to Google, on a separate module. |
| Publishes to social networks | No Blogged does not post to LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook or X. | Yes A separate module covers four platforms with platform native posts rather than one caption reused. |
| One subscription covers the whole product | Yes One Project price covers the blog, the writing, the publishing and the reporting. | No Three modules are priced separately, with 15 percent off when two or more are bundled. |
| Hosts the blog for you | Yes Blogged hosts the blog: a Blogged subdomain immediately, your own subdomain once connected, or your path by reverse proxy. | Partial Only on the $1,299 a month managed tier, which includes a website theStacc builds and hosts. |
| Capability | Blogged | theStacc |
|---|---|---|
| Refuses to publish weak work | Yes Governance decides whether a post is allowed to go live rather than publishing everything drafted. | Yes A quality gate and an honesty gate run before publication on every module. |
| Blocks invented facts specifically | Partial Posts are researched and sourced, though no named check for invented offers or prices is published. | Yes Its honesty gate is described as blocking invented promotions, invented prices and fake proof. |
| Hold drafts for review | Yes Assisted autopilot is on every sold plan, so drafts can wait for a person rather than going live directly. | Yes Approve first is one of three control modes, and can be set per module rather than globally. |
| Learns from your edits | Partial Posts follow the Project's configured positioning and audience, which you can revise at any time. | Yes Voice rules are distilled weekly from the edits you make, so corrections carry forward automatically. |
| Cites real sources | Yes Posts carry sources, so a claim can be traced rather than taken on trust. | Not published Quality and honesty gates are described in detail, but citation of sources is not mentioned. |
| Capability | Blogged | theStacc |
|---|---|---|
| Search Console feeding decisions | Yes Search Console sync is on every sold plan rather than an upper tier upgrade. | Partial It says Search Console can feed the next plan, phrased as an option rather than a described integration. |
| Confirms a page was indexed | Partial Blogged serves the blog and maintains its sitemap, but publishes no per page indexing monitor. | Yes IndexNow is fired on publication and indexing is monitored after the page goes live. |
| Reports on conversion, not only ranking | Yes Newsletter lead capture is on every paid plan, so a published post can be joined to what it brought in. | Not published Case studies cite CRM figures, but no lead capture or conversion reporting feature is described. |
| Tracks named competitors over time | Yes Competitor watch is on every paid plan, tracking 7 on Starter and 25 on Ultra Growth. | Partial Competitor analysis is part of the blog module's keyword research rather than an ongoing tracked list. |
| Tracks local and Maps rankings | No Blogged has no local search surface, so Maps and Local Pack are out of scope. | Yes Weekly Maps, Local Pack and organic rank tracking are part of the Local SEO module. |
The two ladders start at the same place and diverge. theStacc's blog module is $99 for 30 articles, $149 for 50 and $199 for 80. Blogged is $99 for 30 posts, $169 for 60 and $229 for 90. On raw article count theStacc wins above the first rung, and this page will not pretend otherwise. What our tiers add as they rise is not only posts: Topics, images, revisions and tracked competitors all rise with them, because the constraint on a working blog is rarely the article count alone.
theStacc's argument is that a business is invisible in more than one place at once: the blog is quiet, the Google profile is stale, the social feed is empty. It sells a module for each. Blogged's argument is that for a SaaS company one of those channels compounds and the others mostly do not, so the blog is worth owning end to end, including the site it lives on and the signups it produces. If you run a business with locations and reviews, theStacc is addressing a real problem that Blogged simply does not have a surface for.
theStacc does host, but not on any software tier. The only plan that includes a website it builds, hosts and manages is the top managed service at $1,299 a month. Below that, every module publishes into something you already own and administer. Blogged includes the blog on its entry plan, which is the difference between buying a publishing service and buying a published blog. For a business that already has a site it likes, theStacc's model is the right shape and the cheaper one.
This page is published by Blogged, so treat it as a vendor comparison. These are the points where theStacc is the stronger answer, stated plainly.
Read their own material at thestacc.comBlogged starts from your website, a product description, or product documents. No existing blog is required, and published work you already own can come with you.
Blogged presents a 3 day trial, which takes a card. A link under it takes a one-time Free allowance on your first Project instead: no card, claimed with a public post about your new blog. Nothing expires while that allowance lasts; a spent Free Project is archived after 14 days and unpublished after 30 unless you upgrade. When you need more, Blogged paid plans start at $99 per month per Project with 30 published posts a month.
See full pricingBlogged replaces the Blog SEO module and nothing else. If Local SEO was posting to your Google Business Profile and answering reviews, or Social was covering four networks, cancelling theStacc ends both and Blogged has no equivalent. Decide whether you are switching one module or leaving three.
theStacc published into your own CMS, so those articles keep their URLs and stay put. Blogged publishes to a blog it hosts. Either run the two archives separately, or serve the Blogged blog from your existing path by reverse proxy so a reader sees one site rather than two.
theStacc distils voice rules weekly from your edits, which means you already have a written description of how you want to sound. That restates directly as part of a Content Direction in Blogged, and is a far better import than a list of keywords.
theStacc gates publication carefully but describes no conversion reporting. Newsletter lead capture is on every paid Blogged plan and ties a signup back to the post that produced it, so switching it on before the first post gives the blog a baseline you can judge the month against.
Short answers to the questions buyers ask before they start with either product.
At the same first rung they match, and above it theStacc is cheaper per article: $99 for 30 articles, $149 for 50 and $199 for 80, against Blogged at $99, $169 and $229 for 30, 60 and 90 posts. Blogged's tiers also raise Topics, images, revisions and tracked competitors.
Not on any software tier. Its modules publish into a CMS you already run, covering WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Shopify and any API or webhook target. A website it builds, hosts and manages appears only on the top managed service tier at $1,299 a month, alongside a dedicated manager and monthly strategy calls.
Local and multi-location businesses, which it states in its own hero. Its Local SEO module needs no website at all, and its published case studies are mostly service businesses rather than software companies. There is one vertical SaaS case study, but the positioning throughout is local presence rather than B2B software.
A check that runs before publication and blocks invented promotions, invented prices and fabricated proof. It sits alongside a more conventional quality gate. It is a sharper published claim than most rivals in this category make, and it is worth crediting rather than treating as ordinary marketing language.
Yes. The trial is the first 3 articles with no credit card, so you see real published output rather than a sample. There is also a 30 day money back guarantee behind the subscription, and cancellation is described as having no contract or penalty attached to it.
Blogged presents a 3 day trial that takes a card, and offers a one-time Free allowance on a new account's first Project instead: 3 posts, 40 Topics, 15 delivered images and 7 competitors. Free takes no card, and you claim it rather than receive it: post publicly on X about your new blog, naming @blogged_app and your blog address, then paste that link within a day of posting. A verified email address is needed too. No clock runs on the allowance itself. Once the posts or images are used up, the Project is archived after 14 days and its blog is unpublished after 30 unless you choose a paid plan; upgrading reverses both.
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