AI newsletter writer for beehiiv operators
HeyNews learns your voice from your past beehiiv issues, drafts the next one from the sources you trust, and can put it in beehiiv as an unsent post draft. On a paid beehiiv plan, connect with your API key, approve draft access through a separate OAuth connection, and have an Owner or Admin pick beehiiv as the sending platform. HeyNews never schedules or sends.
14-day trial or 5 generated issues. Keep using beehiiv; HeyNews drafts, you review before sending.
What it is
HeyNews is an AI newsletter writer for beehiiv operators. It connects to beehiiv, trains a Voice Profile from your recent issues, watches the sources you trust (RSS feeds, sites, X, Reddit, saved articles), and drafts your next issue in your voice for you to review and send. Plans start at $39/mo with a 14-day free trial.
HeyNews does not replace beehiiv. beehiiv stays where your subscribers, sending, payments, and deliverability live. HeyNews is the production layer that turns your archive plus your sources into a draft you would have written anyway, in less time.
How HeyNews works with beehiiv
- Connect beehiiv with your API key
- Paste the API key from beehiiv's Settings > Integrations and pick your publication. This connection only reads the issues you have already published so HeyNews can learn how your newsletter sounds.
- Build your Voice Profile from real issues
- HeyNews studies your tone, recurring sections, sentence rhythm, and the way you frame stories. The more issues in your beehiiv archive, the closer the first draft starts to your voice.
- Add the sources you actually read
- RSS feeds, websites, subreddits, YouTube channels, saved articles, and public profiles on X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, and Bluesky. HeyNews monitors them and surfaces the strongest stories for your audience before you start writing.
- Let response data shape future drafts
- HeyNews reads which issues and links your beehiiv subscribers opened and clicked, and uses that when it scores stories and writes subject lines. No manual tagging.
- Straight into beehiiv as a draft
- Drafts come with subject line and preview text options. Edit in HeyNews until it sounds right. On paid beehiiv plans, HeyNews can create each finished draft as an unsent post draft in beehiiv. It never schedules or sends. You schedule and send from beehiiv.
- Run multiple beehiiv publications side by side
- From Starter up, each beehiiv publication keeps its own Voice Profile, sources, and draft history, so a personal letter and a B2B newsletter never cross-contaminate.
What to expect today
On paid beehiiv plans, HeyNews can create each finished draft as an unsent post draft in beehiiv. It never schedules or sends. Drafts in beehiiv also need a separate OAuth connection with draft access and an Owner or Admin choosing beehiiv as the publication's sending platform. After more edits in HeyNews, save the draft and select the Update draft in beehiiv button. HeyNews updates the same draft only if nobody changed, scheduled, or sent it in beehiiv. If someone did, it creates a new unsent draft and leaves the earlier one alone. That keeps final editorial control with you, and a misclick can never send an issue to your list.
Why it feels different for beehiiv operators
- Trained on your beehiiv issues, not a one-line prompt
- beehiiv's built-in AI helps with rewrites and grammar inside the editor. HeyNews learns your voice from your recent issues and picks stories from all the sources you follow, so the first draft starts in your voice and on your topics.
- A shortlist of stories before you open a blank page
- You stop the daily scroll through 12 RSS feeds and X accounts. HeyNews scans your sources overnight and surfaces a ranked shortlist of stories that match what your audience actually reads.
- Drafts shaped by what beehiiv subscribers engage with
- beehiiv knows your open and click data. HeyNews reads those opens and clicks and uses them when it scores stories and writes subject lines.
- Separate Voice Profiles for separate publications
- Your daily roundup and your Sunday deep dive should not sound the same. HeyNews keeps separate Voice Profiles, sources, and draft histories for each beehiiv publication you run.
- A complete first draft, not a prompt response
- Subject lines, preview text, story selection, opening, body, and CTAs are produced together. You start from a draft worth editing, not from a blinking cursor.
Pricing
| Plan | Plan details | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | 15 issues / month · 2 beehiiv publications | $99/mo |
| Pro | 45 issues / month · 4 beehiiv publications | $299/mo |
| Team | 90 issues / month · 10 publications · 100 AI revisions per draft | $499/mo |
Your beehiiv subscription stays separate. HeyNews plans start at $39/mo and include a 14-day or 5-issue free trial, whichever ends first.
Use cases
The 5-figure MRR beehiiv operator who is the bottleneck
You run a paid newsletter on beehiiv with $40k MRR. The newsletter is the business, but writing it eats your week. HeyNews learns from your most recent issues, drafts in your voice, and the time you save goes back into product, sponsorships, and audience growth.
The daily news beehiiv publication on a 6 AM send
HeyNews pulls overnight from your RSS feeds and X accounts, picks the most relevant six stories, and has a draft ready by 5 AM. Review for fifteen minutes, send from beehiiv, and the rest of your day is yours.
The multi-publication beehiiv operator
You run three beehiiv publications: a personal letter, a B2B SaaS one, and a curated industry brief. HeyNews keeps the voice, sources, and draft history separate for each, so switching between them is one click.
The "beehiiv AI does not sound like me" operator
beehiiv's built-in AI assistant is fine for grammar and rewrites. It is not trained on your archive. HeyNews is, and the difference shows up the first time a subscriber says "this sounds exactly like you wrote it."
FAQ
Does HeyNews replace beehiiv?
No. beehiiv stays where your subscribers, sending, deliverability, and payments live. HeyNews is the production layer that drafts each issue from your archive plus your sources, so the draft that reaches beehiiv is already written in your voice.
Does HeyNews push drafts directly into beehiiv?
Yes, as an unsent post draft. In Connections & imports, add the separate beehiiv OAuth connection, approve draft access, and pick your beehiiv publication. An Owner or Admin then selects beehiiv as the publication's sending platform. When a draft is ready, HeyNews copies the title, subject line, preview text, subtitle, and body into a beehiiv post draft. If you have sent an issue before, the draft reuses its theme, byline, and footer. After more edits in HeyNews, save the draft and select the Update draft in beehiiv button. HeyNews updates the same draft only if nobody changed, scheduled, or sent it in beehiiv. If someone did, it creates a new unsent draft and leaves the earlier one alone. HeyNews never schedules or sends. Creating drafts needs a paid beehiiv plan.
Does HeyNews replace the beehiiv AI assistant?
For voice-aware first drafts, yes. beehiiv's built-in AI is still useful for inline grammar fixes and quick rewrites once the draft is in the beehiiv editor. The two coexist: HeyNews handles production, beehiiv handles polish and send.
Do I need a paid beehiiv plan?
For drafts created in beehiiv, yes. beehiiv's free Launch plan cannot create post drafts, so HeyNews needs a paid beehiiv plan to create them.
What data does HeyNews read from beehiiv?
Past issues for voice training, plus open and click signals so future drafts can lean toward formats and topics that already work. HeyNews does not read subscriber email addresses, does not store your audience list, and does not send anything on your behalf.
Can I disconnect beehiiv any time?
Yes, from Connections & imports in HeyNews. Disconnecting stops new updates from beehiiv but keeps your existing Voice Profile, sources, and saved drafts inside HeyNews so you can keep working without losing context.
How fast is the first draft after I connect?
Usually under sixty seconds once your archive is imported and your sources are added. Most beehiiv operators see their first usable draft in the same session they sign up for the trial.
What is the free trial?
14 days or 5 generated issues, whichever ends first. A payment method is required so accounts cannot be recycled. Cancel any time during the trial and you are not charged.
Stop spending Sunday writing your beehiiv issue.
Connect beehiiv, train HeyNews on your archive, and judge the first draft yourself. If it does not sound like you, we have not done our job.
Draft my next beehiiv issueBuilt by Cagri and Eren. We use HeyNews for our own newsletter on beehiiv. Nothing ships from here that we would not send to our own list first.
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