The 7 best Featured.com alternatives for 2026

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Qwoted4.5/5 on G2

The high-quality, vetted source-request marketplace

If you like Featured's curated, low-spam model but want it as a live marketplace, Qwoted is the closest swap. It processes roughly 200 journalist queries a day and, per a BuzzStream study, holds the highest share of DR 80+ high-authority publication requests among source-request platforms — Forbes, CNBC, Yahoo Finance reporters actively asking for sources. It bans AI-pitch spam aggressively, which keeps signal quality high. The honest catches mirror Featured's: the free tier is nearly unusable (2 pitches a month with a 2-hour delay that lets paying users answer first), Pro is a real price step at $99/mo billed annually, and it's inbound-only — you're still responding to queries, not pitching your own story. There's also a recurring Trustpilot pattern of accounts suspended without much explanation, recently including AI-content bans, so be careful if you draft with AI.

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HARO

The free query newsletter — now run by Featured itself

Here's the twist that matters for this list: Featured.com actually operates HARO. It bought the brand back from Cision in April 2025 and revived it as a free, ad-supported email newsletter of journalist requests, sent three times a day to a million-plus sources. So if Featured's free tier feels too capped, HARO is the same company's free front door — same curation philosophy, no answer limits, no payment. In July 2025 it added Pangram AI-detection so journalists can filter out AI-generated pitches, which has helped the spam problem that nearly killed it. The trade-off is everything a broadcast newsletter implies: you're one of hundreds answering the same query, there's no contact data or verification, and it's purely reactive — you can only respond to what journalists happen to ask today. Featured's paid Connectively platform is the upsell from here; HARO is the free version of the same motion.

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JustReachOut4.6/5 on G2

Source requests plus a database and pitching, in one app

JustReachOut is the most full-featured swap if you want more than a query feed. Post-HARO it built a curated press-opportunity finder that aggregates journalist requests from 20+ sources and updates throughout the day — and it pairs that inbound discovery with a 700,000-journalist database, AI-drafted pitches, and sending from your own Gmail or Outlook, so you can both answer queries and proactively pitch from one place. It's also unusually good at teaching, with a PR Academy aimed at solopreneurs. The honest limits: it's pricier than the pure feeds ($147–$497/mo, contract-free with a 7-day card-required trial), the database search is recency-biased and skews US-heavy, the UX feels dated to some reviewers, and it's candid that real results take three to six months. For a Featured user who wants to expand beyond answering prompts without jumping to a full database tool, it's a sensible middle path.

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Source of Sources (SOS)

The free HARO successor from HARO's own founder

Source of Sources is the closest thing to 'classic HARO,' built by Peter Shankman — the person who invented HARO in 2008 before selling it to Vocus/Cision. After HARO's various shutdowns and relaunches, SOS reopened the original playbook: a free email feed of journalist source requests you can answer to earn quotes and citations. It's deliberately stripped-down — no dashboard, no AI co-pilot, no subscription — which is exactly the appeal for people burned by the platformization (and pricing) of the Featured/Connectively era. The trade-off is the same one every broadcast query feed has: you're answering in a public crowd, spam and low acceptance rates are real, and there's no contact data, no verification, and no proactive discovery. As a free, credible inbound feed to run alongside HARO, it's a sensible pick; as a replacement for Featured's curated, vetted publisher network, it's lighter-weight and noisier.

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MentionMatch

The free, B2B-only source-request feed

MentionMatch (formerly Help a B2B Writer, from the team behind the Superpath content-marketing community) is a free source-request service with one sharp differentiator: it only carries B2B queries. Where HARO and Featured cast across consumer, lifestyle, finance, and B2B all at once, MentionMatch filters to business, SaaS, and trade-publication requests, so a B2B expert wastes less time scrolling past irrelevant consumer prompts. Requests arrive by email and you respond directly to the writer. It's free and well-regarded for relevance within its lane. The limits are scope and scale: query volume is much lower than HARO/Featured because it's niche by design, it's useless if you need consumer or general-interest coverage, and like every query feed it's reactive, broadcast, and offers no journalist contact data or verification. For a B2B audience specifically, the higher signal-to-noise can beat Featured's broader queue.

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Connectively

Discontinued, then revived as Featured's own paid platform

Connectively is mostly here to clear up confusion, because it's a moving target. It was the name Cision gave HARO when it rebranded in March 2024 — then Cision discontinued it entirely on December 9, 2024. The brand didn't stay dead: Featured.com revived Connectively on June 2, 2026 as its own separate paid platform, a live journalist-request feed with an AI co-pilot. So 'Connectively' as a standalone alternative to Featured no longer makes sense — it IS Featured now, sitting one tier above the free HARO newsletter. If you're evaluating it, you're really evaluating Featured's paid product under a different name, and its pricing is unsettled during the relaunch (sources cite both $49 and $149/mo). For most people the practical choice is HARO (free) or one of the vetted feeds above.