A Tyquill alternative for operators who need more than a draft tool

Tyquill scrapes the web, generates a draft, and exports to Ghost, Substack, LinkedIn, or Maily. HeyNews trains on your past issues, monitors your real sources, and learns from what your audience opens.

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What it is

HeyNews is an AI newsletter writer for operators who run a real publication. It connects to beehiiv, Kit, Substack, Ghost, Mailchimp, or any newsletter with a public archive, imports your recent issues (up to 50 from a public archive) to build a Voice Profile, monitors your sources (RSS, blogs, social profiles, Reddit, saved articles), scores stories against your audience, and drafts your next issue.

Tyquill appears to be a lightweight AI assistant: web scraping, AI draft generation, and inline editing, with one-click export to Ghost, LinkedIn, Substack, or Maily. Its public site does not list pricing, and its app was inaccessible during our review. That makes it hard to evaluate as a production workflow before launch.

Honest comparison

What it does	Tyquill	HeyNews
Voice training on your archive	Inline AI generation, no Voice Profile from past issues	Voice Profile built from your past newsletter issues, automatic on connect
Source ingestion	Web scraping per request	Continuous ingestion from RSS, blogs, social profiles, Reddit, browser extension, with relevance scoring
Newsletter platform integration	One-click export to Ghost, LinkedIn, Substack, Maily	beehiiv import and unsent drafts in beehiiv (paid beehiiv plan); Kit import (OAuth); archive import for Substack, Ghost, Mailchimp, Medium
Performance learning loop	Not advertised	Uses beehiiv or Kit opens and clicks to rank stories and suggest subject lines
Edition-type writers	Single editor	Separate AI Writers for different edition types
Subject line and preview text suggestions	Not core to the tool	Built-in, optimized against your past open rates
Multi-publication support	Single-account focus	Up to 10 publications on Team, separate Voice Profiles each
Public pricing	No public pricing listed	From $39/mo, 14-day trial

When to choose Tyquill over HeyNews

You are writing your first few issues and want to test a simple draft-and-export workflow once the app is accessible.
You publish primarily on Ghost, LinkedIn, or Maily and value the one-click export to those surfaces.
You do not have an archive of past issues yet, so voice training would not have much to train on.
Your newsletter is occasional and you are still comparing tools before committing to a paid workflow.

When to choose HeyNews over Tyquill

You have a real archive of past issues and want the AI to actually learn your voice from them.
You publish on beehiiv and want finished drafts created in beehiiv, not just an export, or on Kit and want a direct OAuth connection.
Your sources are continuous (RSS, blogs, social, Reddit) and you want a tool monitoring them, not scraping the web on demand.
You want the next draft informed by what your last issue actually did with your readers.
You run more than one publication and want separate Voice Profiles per publication.

Pricing

Plan	Tyquill	HeyNews
Free	Not published	No (paid trial only)
Entry	No public pricing listed	$39/mo Hobbyist (5 issues/mo, 1 publication)
Mid	Not offered	$99/mo Starter (15 issues/mo, 2 publications)
Top	Not offered	$499/mo Team (90 issues/mo, 10 publications, 100 AI revisions per draft)
Yearly discount	Not advertised	30% off any plan

Tyquill does not publish pricing on its public website, and its app was inaccessible during our review. The honest framing: Tyquill may be a useful starter tool if access opens up; HeyNews is for operators who need a live, production-ready workflow with clear pricing.

Use cases

The Tyquill user who needs a production workflow

Tyquill looks useful for getting off the blank page, but unclear pricing and an inaccessible app make it hard to rely on for a business newsletter. HeyNews trains on your archive and the next draft sounds like you.

The beehiiv or Kit operator who tried Tyquill

Tyquill exports to Ghost, LinkedIn, Substack, and Maily. HeyNews connects directly to beehiiv and Kit; on paid beehiiv plans it creates the finished draft in beehiiv for you, and with Kit you copy the final draft in.

The continuous-source operator

You watch 30 RSS feeds, three subreddits, and four social accounts. Tyquill scrapes per request. HeyNews ingests continuously and scores stories against your audience so the relevant ones surface automatically.

The multi-edition operator

You write a Monday deep dive and a Friday roundup. Tyquill is one editor. HeyNews trains separate AI Writers and switches per edition.

FAQ

Why pay for HeyNews if Tyquill does not list pricing?

Tyquill does not publish pricing on its public website, and its app was inaccessible during our review. HeyNews is paid and transparent because it does production work Tyquill does not advertise: voice training on your real archive, native API integrations, and the performance learning loop. If your newsletter is part of the business, the math usually works in HeyNews's favor.

Does HeyNews export to Ghost, LinkedIn, Substack, or Maily?

HeyNews imports archives from Substack and Ghost for voice training and connects directly to beehiiv and Kit, with unsent drafts created in beehiiv on paid beehiiv plans. For LinkedIn, Maily, or Kit, the workflow is to copy the final draft into the destination tool.

How does Tyquill voice handling compare?

Tyquill generates drafts from a description and lets you edit inline. HeyNews builds a Voice Profile from your recent issues and uses that profile across every draft.

I do not have many past issues yet. Should I still try HeyNews?

Voice training works best with at least a handful of past issues. If you are brand new and have nothing to train on, Tyquill is a fine starting point. Come back to HeyNews when you have an archive worth learning from.