Qwoted Alternatives

Qwoted is a source request marketplace. Reporters post queries, and experts pitch themselves as sources. Its free tier allows two pitches a month and applies a two-hour response delay. The Pro plan costs $149 a month for 35 pitches with no delay, plus access to an events and awards database.

You might look elsewhere if two pitches a month is not enough, or if $149 a month is more than you want to spend on a single channel. The other reason is scope. Qwoted covers journalist requests and industry awards. It does not find the pages that already link to your competitors, resource pages, listicles, directories, podcasts, speaking slots, or the pages Google's AI reads. If you need those links, you need a different tool.

Help a Reporter Out is the original journalist request digest. It is now operated by Connectively. Queries reach subscribed sources by email. There is no public feed, so no tool pulls them in automatically. You can subscribe for free.

Its strength is volume. It has the largest reporter base of any request feed. If your goal is to be seen by as many journalists as possible, and you are willing to read a digest every morning, it works. It is a single channel. It does not find backlink gaps, prospect for links, or cover podcasts, speaking opportunities, or AI answer visibility.

Featured.com is an AI PR co-pilot from the company behind Connectively. It finds media opportunities and helps you pitch them. Its published pricing includes a free tier with a daily credit allowance, a Lite plan at $29 a month billed annually, and a Pro plan at $79 a month billed annually.

It covers journalist requests, finding journalists, podcast guest booking, speaking opportunities, industry awards, bylined articles, AI answer visibility, and unlinked mentions. It is inexpensive and good at the 'earn' channel. Its homepage lists link gap analysis, but its pricing page and its actual search traffic show no focus on links. It does not perform backlink gap analysis or find resource pages. Choose it if you want a cheap, capable chat interface for earned media. Look elsewhere if you also need the links your competitors already have.

SourceBottle is a free call-out board connecting journalists and bloggers to expert sources. It is strongest in Australian and New Zealand media. It is free for both journalists and sources.

It is a straightforward, honest platform for one channel. It does not cover link prospecting, backlink analysis, or any other channel. Mentionry reads SourceBottle as one of its own inputs for journalist requests. Choose SourceBottle if you want a free, focused tool for Australian media. Choose a broader tool if you need more than one channel.

Prowly is a PR suite owned by Semrush. It includes a media database, press release hosting, pitching tools, and media monitoring. It is a different kind of product.

It covers finding journalists, journalist requests, unlinked mentions, and watching competitor coverage. It does not cover backlink gap analysis, link prospecting, or resource page building. Choose Prowly if you need a media database with contact records and a press room. Choose a tool like Mentionry if you want reporters identified from the bylines on last week's coverage, not from a database record that may be years old.

Connectively is Cision's journalist request platform, running alongside HARO. Source call-outs reach experts by email. It inherited HARO's reporter base.

Like HARO, its value is in that base of reporters. It is a single channel for journalist requests. It does not cover link gap analysis, prospecting, podcasts, speaking, awards, or AI visibility. Choose it for the volume of the request feed. Choose an alternative if you want opportunities from multiple channels without having to read a daily digest.

Mentionry finds the specific places a business can get a backlink and writes the pitch to send. You give it a domain. It finds pages linking to competitors but not to you, resource pages, listicles, directories, journalist requests, podcasts, speaking slots, awards, and the pages Google's AI Overviews read.

Every opportunity comes with a drafted email sent from your own connected mailbox. It judges each one individually and can refuse to draft a pitch it decides the business cannot honestly answer. It verifies links after the fact, reporting what was earned. Its gaps are part of the design. It does not pull in HARO, Source of Sources, or Connectively queries automatically. You paste one in. Its AI answer visibility covers Google AI Overviews only. It cannot place or publish a link, only send the pitch. It does not do broken link building, registries, or relationship inventory. Pricing is not yet published.

First, separate the channels. Do you need only journalist requests, or do you also need the links your competitors already have? If it is only requests, then a request feed like HARO, Featured.com, or Qwoted itself may be sufficient. If you need both, you need a tool that does both.

Second, consider the workflow. Do you want to read a digest, or do you want the tool to read it for you and only show you the matches? Third, look at what is not built. No tool here places a link for you. Sending a pitch and placing a link are different acts. The honest comparison is about which specific opportunities are found and how well the pitch is drafted.