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

Tyquill saves pages you browse, drafts from them, 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 is an AI newsletter assistant that runs as a Chrome extension and a web app. You save pages as you browse, generate a draft from them, edit it, and export to Ghost, LinkedIn, Substack, or Maily. All features are free during an Early Access promotion, and core features stay free after it ends, according to Tyquill's homepage (checked October 11, 2026). You add your own Gemini, OpenAI, or Anthropic API key, and that provider bills the AI usage.

Honest comparison

What it does	Tyquill	HeyNews
Voice training on your archive	A personalized writing style; no archive import listed	Voice Profile built from your past newsletter issues, automatic on connect
Source ingestion	One-click saving of pages you browse	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 listed on its homepage	Uses beehiiv or Kit opens and clicks to rank stories and suggest subject lines
Subject line and preview text suggestions	Not listed on its homepage	Built-in, optimized against your past open rates
Multi-publication support	No team or multi-publication features listed	Up to 10 publications on Team, separate Voice Profiles each
Pricing	Free during Early Access; you bring your own AI API key	From $39/mo, 14-day trial

Tyquill details are according to Tyquill's homepage (checked October 11, 2026).

When to choose Tyquill over HeyNews

You are writing your first few issues and want to test a simple, free draft-and-export workflow.
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 pages you save one at a time.
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	Free during Early Access; core features stay free after it ends	No (paid trial only)
Entry	No paid plan listed; your AI provider bills your own key	$39/mo Hobbyist (5 issues/mo, 1 publication)
Mid	None listed	$99/mo Starter (15 issues/mo, 2 publications)
Top	None listed	$499/mo Team (90 issues/mo, 10 publications, 100 AI revisions per draft)
Yearly discount	Not listed	30% off any plan

Tyquill details are according to Tyquill's homepage (checked October 11, 2026).

Tyquill's homepage says all features are free during Early Access and that core features stay free after the promotion ends. You pay your own AI provider for usage. HeyNews is a paid workflow with published plans.

Use cases

The Tyquill user who needs a production workflow

Tyquill is free and quick for a first draft from pages you save. HeyNews trains on your archive, so the next draft sounds like you, and it watches your sources between issues.

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 saves the pages you open. 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. HeyNews trains separate AI Writers from your past issues and switches per edition.

FAQ

Why pay for HeyNews if Tyquill is free right now?

Tyquill is free during its Early Access promotion, according to Tyquill's homepage (checked October 11, 2026), though you pay your own AI provider for usage. HeyNews is paid because it does production work Tyquill's homepage does not list: automatic voice training from your published archive, direct beehiiv and Kit connections, 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 drafts from a topic, a key message, and the pages you saved, and its homepage lists a personalized writing style that learns your tone. 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.