SourceBottle alternatives

SourceBottle is a specific tool for a specific job. It is a free board where journalists and bloggers post calls for expert sources. It works well, especially in Australia and New Zealand, and it costs nothing. You might look beyond it for one of three reasons.

First, you might want more than journalist requests. You could need to find podcasts that book guests, conferences taking speakers, or the specific pages that link to your competitors but not to you. Second, you might want the requests to be matched to your expertise automatically, rather than reading a daily digest. Third, you might operate primarily outside the Australian media circle where SourceBottle is strongest.

This page covers the tools that address those gaps. Each entry states what the tool is, its published price, who it suits, and what it does not do. Mentionry is one entry in that list, placed on the same terms as everyone else.

SourceBottle is a free call-out board connecting journalists and bloggers to expert sources. It was founded in 2009 and remains strongest in Australian media. Journalists post queries, and sources can reply. It is free for both sides, with optional paid upgrades for pitching.

The tool covers journalist requests. It does not cover backlink gap analysis, link prospecting, resource page building, podcast guest booking, speaking opportunities, industry awards, or AI answer visibility. Its value is in its focused, active community of reporters.

Pick SourceBottle when it is free and you are targeting Australian or New Zealand media. It is a genuine, working channel. Pick an alternative when you need capabilities outside that single channel or geography.

HARO is the original journalist request service, now operating under the Connectively brand. Reporters submit queries, and they are emailed to a list of subscribed sources. It is still free for sources to receive these digests.

It covers journalist requests. It does not cover backlink gap analysis, link prospecting, resource page building, podcast guest booking, speaking opportunities, industry awards, or AI answer visibility. Its published price includes free and paid tiers, which you should check on the Connectively site.

Pick HARO when volume is the entire point. It has the largest reporter base of any request feed. Pick an alternative when you want the request feed to be one channel among several, and you do not want to read and filter a digest every morning.

Qwoted is a source request marketplace with an expert database for journalists. It connects experts to reporters and includes a database of awards and events. Its free plan allows two pitches per month and applies a two-hour response delay. The Pro plan costs 149 dollars per month for 35 pitches with no delay.

It covers journalist requests and industry awards. It does not cover backlink gap analysis, link prospecting, resource page building, podcast guest booking, or AI answer visibility.

Pick Qwoted when being in a journalist-facing expert database matters more to you than outbound pitching. The free tier is limited, so the real entry point is the paid plan. Pick an alternative when you need a tool that also finds existing link opportunities.

Featured.com is an AI PR co-pilot that finds media opportunities and helps draft pitches. It is the company behind Connectively. It uses a chat interface to surface journalist requests, podcast bookings, speaking slots, awards, and opportunities for bylined articles. It also covers unlinked mentions and AI answer visibility for Google AI Overviews.

Its published pricing includes a free tier with daily credits, a Lite plan at 29 dollars per month billed annually, and a Pro plan at 79 dollars per month billed annually. The homepage lists link gap analysis, but the pricing page does not include it as a feature. An analysis of its top ranked keywords shows no traffic for link related terms.

Pick Featured.com when you want a cheap, capable tool focused solely on earned media opportunities through a chat interface. Pick an alternative when you also need to find the specific pages that already link to your competitors, a capability not present in its product.

Prowly is a PR suite offering a media database, press release hosting, pitching tools, and media monitoring. It is owned by Semrush. It helps you find journalists, respond to requests, and track unlinked mentions and competitor coverage.

It covers finding journalists, journalist requests, unlinked mentions, and competitor coverage watch. It does not cover backlink gap analysis, link prospecting, resource page building, or podcast guest booking. Its pricing is tiered and you should check the vendor page.

Pick Prowly when you need a full media database with contact records and a press room. That is a different product category. Pick an alternative when you want outreach targets identified from recent coverage bylines, not from a database record that may be years old.

Mentionry finds specific places a business can get a backlink and drafts the pitch to send. It works in two halves. First, it finds pages that link to your competitors and not to you, plus resource pages and directories. Second, it finds journalist requests, podcasts, conferences, awards, and pages Google's AI reads for buying questions.

Every opportunity comes with a drafted email sent from your own connected mailbox. Replies land in your thread. It verifies links after the fact, reporting what was earned. Its pricing is not yet published.

Pick Mentionry when you want both the links your competitors have and the new media opportunities, filtered and drafted automatically. It reads SourceBottle as one input channel. Do not pick it for several specific things it does not do.

The right tool depends on what you are missing. Start by writing down the one channel you need most. If it is journalist requests in Australia, use SourceBottle. If it is the highest volume of requests from US reporters, use HARO. If it is being found by journalists in a database, consider Qwoted.

If you need more than one channel, like podcasts and conferences alongside requests, look at Featured.com or Mentionry. Then decide if you also need the existing links your competitors have. If you do, that eliminates every tool except Mentionry from this list.

Finally, consider how you want to work. Do you want to read a digest, work in a chat, or have pitches drafted into your mailbox? The interface determines whether you will use the tool consistently. Try the free tier of any tool that meets your channel needs, and see if you actually open it.