Anewstip vs Presspage
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentPresspage compared with Anewstip
Not really competitors, and the price gap makes that plain. Anewstip is a searchable index of journalists and their coverage, priced so an individual or a small agency can subscribe, and it exists to find the right reporter. Presspage is a five-figure annual platform for publishing and governing a corporate newsroom. A small business choosing between them is not actually choosing; Anewstip is the affordable answer to the discovery problem, and Presspage is only relevant once a company has a communications department and a compliance requirement.
Choose Anewstip if
Founders, solo PR consultants, and small in-house teams who want to build a targeted journalist list from what reporters actually wrote, and who value unlimited contact reveals over polished software. The free tier makes it a reasonable permanent research companion even for teams that pitch from a different tool.
Choose Presspage if
Corporate and enterprise communications teams that publish governed announcements at volume, run regional or multilingual newsrooms, handle regular inbound press inquiries, and need embargo, investor relations, and crisis controls with ISO 27001 and SSO behind them.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Anewstip | Presspage |
|---|---|---|
| Category | PR | PR |
| Starting price | Free; paid plans from $200 per month (Standard), with a $99 per month early-stage plan for eligible applicants (free plan available) | From 20,000 euros per year (roughly $22,000) on the Business plan |
| Pricing model | Subscription with four tiers, metered on pitch volume, number of media lists, contacts per list, and number of alerts. Access to journalist email addresses and phone numbers is unlimited on every tier including the free plan, which is unusual for this category. Pitch capacity can be topped up with one-time, non-expiring point packages. Standard bills monthly or annually; Professional is annual only. | Annual enterprise contract, quoted per customer. Two published plans, Business and Enterprise, with a starting price stated on the plans page and the final number scoped to the deployment. Access begins with a demo; there is no self-serve signup, no monthly billing, and no free tier. Implementation is a scoped project bundled into the contract, and both the licensed media database and the Euronext LIVE integration are paid add-ons on either plan. |
| Free plan | 1 user, unlimited email and phone reveals, 2 media lists of up to 100 contacts, 2 alerts, and zero pitches per month | No |
| Free trial | 7 days on Standard and Professional, converting to a paid subscription automatically unless cancelled | No |
| Best for | Founders, solo PR consultants, and small in-house teams who want to build a targeted journalist list from what reporters actually wrote, and who value unlimited contact reveals over polished software. The free tier makes it a reasonable permanent research companion even for teams that pitch from a different tool. | Corporate and enterprise communications teams that publish governed announcements at volume, run regional or multilingual newsrooms, handle regular inbound press inquiries, and need embargo, investor relations, and crisis controls with ISO 27001 and SSO behind them. |
| Setup time | Minutes. Registration is self-serve, there is nothing to install or connect, and the first useful search happens on the free plan before any payment. Building a first media list of a few dozen contacts is an afternoon of query iteration rather than a project. | Weeks. Every deployment is a scoped implementation project covering newsroom design, custom domain and email sender configuration, content and asset migration, and user setup. Business plans follow a standardized process; Enterprise plans get a customized one. There is no path where you sign today and publish tomorrow. |
| Learning curve | Low mechanically, higher editorially. The search syntax and filters are straightforward; the skill that decides results is choosing query phrases specific enough to surface genuinely relevant writers and disciplined enough not to fill a list with anyone who mentioned your category in passing. | Publishing and scheduling are straightforward for anyone who has used a CMS. The parts that take longer are the contact database and list building, which reviewers consistently describe as confusing at first, and the visibility model of embargoed, restricted, and confidential pages, which rewards a deliberate walkthrough before the first sensitive release. |
| Platforms | Web application, ClipCoverage Google Slides add-on (separate product and account) | Web application (browser-based), Hosted newsroom served on the customer's custom domain, Multi-newsroom and multi-language deployments, Responsive newsroom front end for mobile visitors |
| Compliance | No published SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent attestation, Card payments handled by Stripe, so card data is not stored on Anewstip servers, Privacy policy includes a section addressed to journalists and other indexed individuals | ISO 27001:2022, GDPR |
| Founded | 2014 | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong (terms of service governed by California law, San Francisco jurisdiction) | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Ownership | Independent, founder-operated | Acquired by Banyan Software (July 2025) |
Strengths and limitations
Anewstip
Strengths
- Searching by what journalists actually published beats filtering by assigned beat tags for niche or technical topics, and this is the tool built around that idea.
- Unlimited email and phone reveals on every tier, including free, removes the per-credit anxiety that shapes how teams use most media databases.
- The free plan is usable indefinitely for research, which makes it a low-risk permanent addition to a stack even if you pitch from elsewhere.
- One saved query serves three jobs: a list, an alert, and an AutoList rule that keeps building the list without supervision.
Limitations
- The Twitter and X search, historically the product's defining feature, is labeled deprecated inside the app; if that is why you are looking at Anewstip, it is no longer the reason to buy.
- The company appears to be a one-to-few-person operation with no outside funding since its 2014 founding, which is a genuine continuity risk for a system of record you would keep for years.
- The public site is visibly stale: the customer count is footnoted as of August 2018, testimonials date to the Twitter era, a Google Plus link survives in the markup, and the footer's about, blog, and contact links resolve to 404 pages.
- The terms of service carry a December 2014 effective date and the privacy policy is generic template text with no named GDPR lawful basis, no data processing agreement, and no subprocessor list, which will stall enterprise or EU procurement.
Presspage
Strengths
- One of the few products that treats the newsroom, distribution, and inbound inquiry handling as a single system rather than three tools with an export between them.
- Governance features that most PR tools do not attempt: advanced embargo with named-contact pre-access, confidential and restricted page labeling, and investor relations publishing including webcasts and a Euronext LIVE integration.
- Security is not tiered; ISO 27001:2022, SSO, MFA, and IP whitelisting are on the entry plan, which removes the usual enterprise-tax argument.
- Multi-newsroom auto-publishing with automated translation solves a genuinely hard problem for companies running regional or brand-specific press properties.
Limitations
- No free plan, no self-serve trial, and no monthly billing; the only way in is a demo followed by an annual contract from 20,000 euros, which puts it outside what most small businesses can buy.
- The licensed journalist database is a paid add-on on both plans, so the base contract distributes only to contacts you already own, a distinction that is easy to miss in a demo.
- The Business plan caps email at 1,000 recipients a month, which a single sizable press list can exhaust in one send.
- The inquiry archive on Business expires after one year, and for a regulated business the record of what was said to which reporter is exactly the thing you may need in year three.
Pricing compared
Anewstip
Subscription with four tiers, metered on pitch volume, number of media lists, contacts per list, and number of alerts. Access to journalist email addresses and phone numbers is unlimited on every tier including the free plan, which is unusual for this category. Pitch capacity can be topped up with one-time, non-expiring point packages. Standard bills monthly or annually; Professional is annual only.
- Free$0
- Standard$200
- Professional$400
- PartnersCustom
Judged purely on capability per dollar for research, Anewstip is one of the best offers in the category, because the free tier does not withhold the thing every competitor charges for. A founder can identify and reach the right forty journalists for the price of a single point package. The judgment gets harder at $200 per month, where Standard buys one user, 1,000 sends, and twenty lists against competitors that charge two to five times as much but ship modern software, coverage reporting, CRM-grade relationship history, and support you can rely on. The honest framing is that you are buying a database and a search engine at a fair price, with dated tooling wrapped around it, from a company small enough that continuity is a real consideration.
Presspage
Annual enterprise contract, quoted per customer. Two published plans, Business and Enterprise, with a starting price stated on the plans page and the final number scoped to the deployment. Access begins with a demo; there is no self-serve signup, no monthly billing, and no free tier. Implementation is a scoped project bundled into the contract, and both the licensed media database and the Euronext LIVE integration are paid add-ons on either plan.
- BusinessFrom 20,000 euros
- EnterpriseFrom 35,000 euros
Judged against what it replaces at a large organization, an agency-maintained IR microsite, a separately licensed newsroom CMS, an email service pressed into press distribution, and a shared mailbox nobody owns, a 20,000 to 35,000 euro annual contract is defensible and often cheaper than the sum of those parts. Judged as a purchase a small business could make, it is out of reach by an order of magnitude, and the gap between Business and Enterprise is mostly caps and service rather than capability, which makes the entry tier a reasonable landing point for a mid-sized comms team rather than a stripped demo. The item to negotiate hardest is the media database add-on, since without it the platform distributes only to contacts you already have.
Editorial verdict on each
Anewstip
Anewstip is the cheapest credible way to answer the question that actually matters in media relations: which specific journalists have already written about the thing I am announcing, and how do I reach them. Searching published articles instead of assigned beat tags produces better lists in niche categories, and giving away unlimited email and phone reveals on a free plan is a genuinely different commercial posture from the rest of the category. Against that, the software is dated, the marketing site has visibly not been touched in years, the tweet search that made the product famous is now marked deprecated, compliance documentation is effectively absent, and the company appears to be one person. Buy it as a research utility, on Standard's month-to-month terms or the free plan, keep exports of anything you would miss, and do not expect it to be the system of record a growing PR function will need in three years.
Read the full Anewstip profilePresspage
Presspage is a well-built product for a specific and fairly narrow buyer: a corporate communications department where a press release is a governed document rather than a marketing asset. The combination of a branded newsroom, owned-domain distribution, a shared inquiry queue, and genuine publishing governance (advanced embargo, confidential pages, investor relations disclosure, ISO 27001 and SSO on the entry plan) is rare, and the multi-newsroom and translation automation solves a real problem for companies publishing across regions. The Banyan acquisition in July 2025 reads as continuity rather than upheaval. But this directory exists for tools a small business can actually buy, and Presspage is not one: 20,000 euros a year minimum, no free plan, no self-serve trial, no monthly billing, a paid add-on for the journalist database most buyers assume is included, and a weeks-long implementation before anything publishes. If you have a communications team, a compliance list, and regional newsrooms, put it on the shortlist against Prezly and get the database add-on priced up front. If you are a small business that wants a credible press page and a way to email fifty journalists, build the page on the site you already own and spend the difference on the story.
Read the full Presspage profileAnewstip profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; Presspage last reviewed 2026-08-23. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.